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Ecm album art carla bley live12/28/2023 ![]() Further recordings with the Motian/Lovano/Frisell are It Should have Happened A Long Time Ago, I Have The Room Above Her, and Time And Time Again. Joe Lovano made his ECM debut in 1981 with Paul Motian’s Psalm. Wasilewski, Kurkiewicz and Miskiewicz also appear on Norwegian guitarist Jacob Young’s album Forever Young (2013). For Spark of Life (2014), the trio was joined by Swedish saxophonist Joakim Milder. Previous ECM albums in trio format are Trio (2004), January (2007), Faithful(2011), and Live (recorded 2016, released in 2018). Marcin Wasilewski, Slawomir Kurkiewicz and Michal Miskiewicz first recorded for ECM as members of Tomasz Stanko’s quartet on the album Soul of Things in 2001, soon followed by Suspended Night and Lontano. I just wanted to make some recordings and had some ideas about sound in mind.The trio’s members have been playing together since high school days in Koszalin, Poland the present line-up was established in 1993. This gradually led to what was perceived as the label’s ‘identity.’ But there wasn’t a grand plan. ![]() Soon after the 1969 Waldron recording, Eicher was drawn deeper into officially starting a label, though without any particular role models: “It was more a simple matter of following my musical interests. “It began that way and I am still pursuing that. Regarding his perspective after 50 years, Eicher offered a pithy assessment of the ECM manifesto, as such. The roster included pianist Shai Maestro, trumpeter Ralph Alessi, drummer Billy Hart and the piano duo of Iyer and Craig Taborn.Įicher, who tends to eschew public appearances, traveled to New York for the occasion, which was sandwiched between two other important matters: He visited the rural New Jersey home of longtime friend Jarrett, whose health issues have interrupted his music-making, and he produced a recording session by trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith.Īmid a busy Gotham weekend, Eicher sat down in the lobby of his Midtown hotel, over a pot of tea, and spoke about his adventures. ![]() Last January, the celebratory year commenced with a two-night, ECM mini-fest, part of Manhattan’s Winter Jazzfest, at (Le) Poisson Rouge. In a 1975 Saturday Review article, writer Chris Albertson noted that Eicher’s “sensible approach to jazz recording, perceptive ear, venturesome spirit, sensitivity, and stringent technical demands are widely appreciated now, but they will be even more appreciated in years to come.” True enough. We will do a few things, but I mostly want to do the work, and just let people. 21–24 in Brussels, Belgium.ĭespite the numerous tributes, Eicher admitted, “I’m not a celebration kind of guy. 17–20 in Skopje, Macedonia and Flagey will present the “ECM 50th Anniversary Weekend” Nov. 1–2 The Skopje Jazz Festival will spotlight ECM Oct. 24–27, with performances by 10 acts Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York will present an ECM tribute Nov. SFJAZZ in San Francisco will salute the label Oct. One will be at the Deutsches Jazzfestival Frankfurt in Germany on Oct. It became the first ECM release, with early partner Manfred Scheffner (who died in September at the age of 79) listed as producer.ĮCM’s 50th anniversary has been celebrated at numerous festivals this year, including the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee, the Healdsburg Jazz Festival in California and the Montreal Jazz Festival. 24, 1969, at Tonstudio Bauer in Ludwigsburg, West Germany. The result: pianist Mal Waldron’s Free At Last, recorded on Nov. The night before DownBeat’s visit, the ECM-aligned duo of cellist Anja Lechner and guitarist Pablo Márquez performed there.Įgger, who ran the Elektro-Egger record store, played a key role in the label’s origin story, offering Eicher a seminal record-making opportunity. On the office’s far end, ECM’s founding (and funding) partner Karl Egger’s health food and wine company LaSelva has a showroom combining its products with an ECM record store, with a small performance space attached. I’m glad to have encouraged him on that path.” Conception Vessel marked Paul’s debut as a composer and leader. “Paul was a good friend,” Eicher said, “and a great musician whom I’d admired since Bill Evans’ Village Vanguard recordings. In a rare touch of whimsy, the room also houses a female mannequin sporting an ornate cap once owned by drummer-bandleader Paul Motian (1931–2011), who recorded influential ECM albums in a trio with guitarist Bill Frisell and saxophonist Joe Lovano. ![]() (Previous designers include Barbara Wojirsch and Dieter Rehm.) In one large room, cabinets with massive archives line the walls, and another area belongs to the design station for the label’s legendarily subtle and refined album cover graphics, currently created by Sascha Kleis, in collaboration with Eicher. Fifty years ago, Manfred Eicher co-founded Edition of Contemporary Music, better known as ECM, and has issued more than 1,600 titles spanning jazz and classical sounds. ![]()
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