ECM has been releasing records since the late 1960s. The label’s best-known artists are probably Keith Jarrett and Arvo Pärt. Founded and run by Manfred Eicher, ECM (Editions of Contemporary Music), ...
I’m not a strong leader in the sense that I want the other musicians to play an ideal that I’ve carved out, but I’m rather open for their input. I like to let everyone find their own role within the ...
The techniques he developed with Manfred Eicher, the founder of the ECM label, had a major influence on the recordings of Pat Metheny, Keith Jarrett and many others. By Giovanni Russonello Jan Erik ...
Over the past decade or so, the ECM label has been flirting with elements of electronic music in varying degrees. Evan Parker's Towards The Margins (1997) introduced electronic manipulation in the ...
Garbarek helped the ECM label find its emerging voice 40 years ago. A new box set of early albums captures the saxophonist's forming sound —... How Jan Garbarek Came To Epitomize Nordic Jazz ...
His latest project is a recording of Mozart’s complete piano sonatas, out Friday, on the ECM label. It is the first such set to have been recorded on Mozart’s own fortepiano. “Mozart is . . . the ...