― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Friday, 8 November 2002 15:44 (twenty-three years ago)
Nils Peter Molvaer is also great.
― tigerclawskank, Friday, 8 November 2002 15:49 (twenty-three years ago)
― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Friday, 8 November 2002 15:53 (twenty-three years ago)
Keith Jarrett's Koln Concert is great too - probably the third ECM big seller along with NPM and Arvo.
― tigerclawskank, Friday, 8 November 2002 16:17 (twenty-three years ago)
― simon 803 (simon 803), Friday, 8 November 2002 17:01 (twenty-three years ago)
― luke (luke), Friday, 8 November 2002 17:07 (twenty-three years ago)
― zebedee, Friday, 8 November 2002 17:15 (twenty-three years ago)
there's a modern norwegian label called RuneGrammophon that ECM distributes that puts out amazing free jazz, improv, noise, ambient, electronic and experimental. The best bands are Supersilent (death jazz. fusion + electronics + drums falling down the stairs) and Scorch Trio (heavy modal fusion).
nearly everything with don cherry on it is great: CoDoNa I, II, & III; his solo albums with ed blackwell, Old and New Dreams (pretty much Ornette Coleman's old group playing old Ornette tracks)
Charlie Haden's "The Ballad of the Fallen" is just like his 60s album on impulse called "Liberation Music Orchestra". it's arranged by Carla Bley and mixes orchestrated jazz, Spanish sounds and free jazz. very beautiful (and don cherry's on it)
i guess Art Ensemble of Chicago have put out stuff on ECM, none of which i've actually heard, but hear it's good.
and as mentioned on the current jazz thread, Raoul Bjorkenheim's group Krakatau is amazing
― JasonD, Friday, 8 November 2002 19:28 (twenty-three years ago)
TMFTMLhttp://intonation.blogspot.com
― TMFTML (TMFTML), Friday, 8 November 2002 19:36 (twenty-three years ago)
Remeber that exstensive posting from Bob Bannister?? Drone-On about ECM? Aaron check it out if you can find them.
― brg30 (brg30), Friday, 8 November 2002 22:14 (twenty-three years ago)
― Daniel (dancity), Saturday, 9 November 2002 07:55 (twenty-three years ago)
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Monday, 11 November 2002 01:10 (twenty-three years ago)
but don't pay a lot for ANY ECM titles. Even the "rarer" ones are easy to find.
― hstencil, Monday, 11 November 2002 08:25 (twenty-three years ago)
also a really big fan of tomasz stanko's "litania - the music of krzysztof komeda" which will do me fine until i find any komeda orginals...
― chris browning (commonswings), Monday, 11 November 2002 09:24 (twenty-three years ago)
His first one "Bright Size Life" is a stripped down guitar trio record that includes Jaco Pastorius on bass. There is some really good interplay on this one.
I also really like the self titled Pat Metheny Group album, "Off Ramp", and the odd near ambient Metheny/Lyle Mays album "As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls" which also includes Nana Vasconcelos.There are also a couple of really good acoustic guitar pieces on the "Watercolors" album.
― earlnash, Monday, 26 January 2004 04:12 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Monday, 26 January 2004 04:23 (twenty-two years ago)
What was said above about Don Cherry is spot-on. El Corazon!
― 4kflka, Monday, 26 January 2004 09:23 (twenty-two years ago)
― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Monday, 26 January 2004 09:36 (twenty-two years ago)
I'd say its pretty good.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 26 January 2004 10:28 (twenty-two years ago)
However, the Kenny Wheeler big band album on ECM (Music For Large and Small Ensembles) isn't even in the same league as the one he did for Incus (Song For Someone) - partly because of the Eicher ambience (works better for the small groups, but not for the big band) and partly because in the 1974 big band Wheeler had Derek Bailey and Tony Oxley in the line-up, whereas in the ECM big band he had John Abercrombie and Peter Erskine. Parker and Rutherford also sound a lot more muted. Song For Someone urgently needs a CD reissue - Parker's tenor exploding at the climax of "The Good Doctor" is a classic improv moment of p*nct*m.
― Phoebe Dinsmore, Monday, 26 January 2004 10:59 (twenty-two years ago)
― Not That Chuck, Monday, 26 January 2004 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)
― Phoebe Dinsmore, Monday, 26 January 2004 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)
― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Monday, 26 January 2004 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)
― Phoebe Dinsmore, Monday, 26 January 2004 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― scott m (mcd), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc600/c626/c62668oksu1.jpghttp://image.allmusic.com/00/acg/cov200/cl800/l867/l86757n5oqc.jpg
― o. nate (onate), Monday, 26 January 2004 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)
― o. nate (onate), Monday, 26 January 2004 20:25 (twenty-two years ago)
― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 26 January 2004 20:34 (twenty-two years ago)
Most of my favorite records on the label are just good ensembles which just happened to release records on ECM, not necessarily sterling examples of the ECM aesthetic. So, yeah the Circle record, the Marion Brown record, all the Art Ensemble stuff, the Music Improvisation Company record, the Bailey/Holland duet, the Hal Russell NRG Ensemble records + Hal's Bells, the Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble records, etc. Didn't really care for Leo Smith's record on the label, though. Oh, the Nouvelle Vague soundtrack is fun too.
― Broheems (diamond), Monday, 26 January 2004 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― Not That Chuck, Monday, 26 January 2004 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)
Also, search: Art Ensemble of Chicago's great 'Nice Guys' record, and of course the last few Dave Holland Quintet records which are both incredibly classic and non-ECMish.
― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 26 January 2004 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)
I think I'm more kindly disposed to the ECM 'sound' (and think that's too often overstated, anyway) 'cos I cld list TONS of great mainstreamish jazz albs they've released: just last year, 'Rosslyn' by John Taylor, 'Extended Play' by Dave Holland, 'Changing Places' by Tord Gustavson and 'Universal Syncopations' by Miroslav Vitous were all really solid ECM recs.
(X-post w/ Jordan -yeah I think that might be the Gustavson rec I just mentioned. And the AEOC 'rarum' collection usefully collects together the best things from the mostly rather patchy 70s/80s ECM albs...)
― Andrew L (Andrew L), Monday, 26 January 2004 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 26 January 2004 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)
― Andrew L (Andrew L), Monday, 26 January 2004 22:12 (twenty-two years ago)
― Phoebe Dinsmore, Tuesday, 27 January 2004 09:11 (twenty-two years ago)
did JAPO come first ? anyone know what JAPO is and where it fits in ?
― george gosset (gegoss), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 09:37 (twenty-two years ago)
― Phoebe Dinsmore, Tuesday, 27 January 2004 10:07 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 12:40 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)
― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)
I remembered another one that I have to go back and listen to...this John Abercrombie organ trio record called Tactics that I remember being overly blurry and atmospheric (in playing and sound) except for a couple tracks, but I might like it a lot more now.
― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)
― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)
― scott m (mcd), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre200/e255/e25527nfmrt.jpg
― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sean (Sean), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)
Also, those 80s Jack DeJohnette Special Edition records are mostly pretty great, I always mean to check out more of them. I just looked at the ECM website, some of those 'selected recordings' comps look pretty tempting.
― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)
― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sean (Sean), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)
― Broheems (diamond), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)
― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 18:04 (twenty-two years ago)
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000320E.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
― Andrew L (Andrew L), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)
this would be one of my favourite records, the 'touchstone' if you like for my interest in free jazz. Ostensibly on the muso's own JCOA label dating from when it was recorded in the '60s (jazz composers orchestra of _america_ i suppose), yes it turns up packaged and distributed by ECM. I should know, since i've leant several copies of it to people who've liked it so much they've kept it that i've re-bought it 3 times.Ironic, ridiculous but typical and sad i suppose that it gets shuffled off, not included in ECMs proper catalog. and really Phil ? not available in america? really ?
― george gosset (gegoss), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 00:46 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 31 January 2004 18:47 (twenty-two years ago)
― Russ, Monday, 2 February 2004 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)
[img]http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd900/d999/d99906r2msg.jpg[/img]
― Aloyius, Monday, 2 February 2004 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)
― Aloysius, Monday, 2 February 2004 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)
― angel duster, Tuesday, 3 February 2004 00:15 (twenty-two years ago)
― Broheems (diamond), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 00:18 (twenty-two years ago)
"Trance" by Steve Kuhn is also excellent.
― Etienne Menu (Etienne), Thursday, 5 August 2004 11:31 (twenty-one years ago)
S.
― Keywords: revenge, knife, granddaughter, demonic-possession, rock-star, eel (Aus, Thursday, 18 May 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)
I've picked up on all of these ECM releases in the last year or so and have enjoyed each of them. Not every record is perfect, but there is some great stuff in there.
The best two Burton records are Passengers and Ring, where Weber guests in his band as a second bassist. Some of the lineups on the Burton records are pretty unique with two electric guitarists (one on 12 string), sometimes two basses, Burton on vibes and a drummer. It is electric jazz, but not really fusion compared to stuff like Weather Report or Mahavishnu.
I've really liked Eberhard Weber's stuff, it is an odd mix of jazz and that minimalist symphonic music like Steve Reich or Phillip Glass. The records sound pretty contemporary sounding considering they are 20-30 years old, in fact some of the more Reich styled pieces would not sound out of place on a Tortoise record. Bill Frisell and Jan Garbarek guest on Little Movements. Pendulum is a Weber overdubbed bass orchestra record. It is a pretty unique sounding record. Overall, it may not be hot and swinging jazz, but I think Weber made some interesting records. The guy pretty much just works as a sideman for the last ten or twelve years or so with Jan Garbarek and hasn't put out but a couple of albums.
― Earl Nash (earlnash), Thursday, 18 May 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)
On the non-glacier front, Jon Balke & Batagraf's new album blows me away.
Destroy: Heiner Goebbels. Tried, tried, and tried to get into his work, but it didn't happen.
― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Thursday, 18 May 2006 21:59 (nineteen years ago)
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 19 May 2006 00:14 (nineteen years ago)
― gear (gear), Friday, 19 May 2006 00:19 (nineteen years ago)
I've got Thimar by Anouar Brahem which has Dave Holland and John Surman, but have only given it a couple of full plays. It hasn't really stuck with me either way.
I've also got a few of the Rarum collections including the one on The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Bill Frisell and Jan Garbarek. I think the Art Ensemble is the best of the three. I like the real icy stuff on the Garbarek album, but some of the I guess world fusion/classical kind of music I did not really get. The Frisell one is also a good listen.
Another ECM artist I have a couple of records by that are pretty good are John Abercrombie's Timeless and a couple of the Gateway trio records with Jack DeJohnette and Dave Holland. Cinematic Orchestra must like some Abercrombie, as I think they sampled him a couple of times.
I would like to hear some of Paul Motian's trio albums with Frisell and Joe Lovano. I'd also like to get Ralph Towner's "Solstice".
― Earl Nash (earlnash), Friday, 19 May 2006 03:53 (nineteen years ago)
'universal syncopations' by miroslav vituous is pretty great, and 'suspended night' by tomasz stanko is really great.
― omar little, Friday, 14 September 2007 06:05 (eighteen years ago)
any more good shit of recent vintage to check out?
― omar little, Monday, 28 September 2009 04:40 (sixteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqG0oZ2MFBs
― Squash weather (Eazy), Monday, 28 September 2009 17:07 (sixteen years ago)
I'll rep for that whole album, as well as Lloyd's "Sangam".
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 28 September 2009 17:12 (sixteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gre5LBcYAA
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 28 September 2009 17:13 (sixteen years ago)
all of dave holland's stuff.
nik bartsch's ronin is pretty decent (not much improvising, very rhythmic, minimal loops in odd-time signatures bumping up against each other, would be good for soundtracking a david mamet movie).
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Monday, 28 September 2009 17:18 (sixteen years ago)
I don't think Holland's on ECM these days though, at least not for "Overtime" (his best from recent years IMO) onward.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 28 September 2009 17:24 (sixteen years ago)
oh, you're right
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Monday, 28 September 2009 17:25 (sixteen years ago)
― Earl Nash (earlnash), Thursday, May 18, 2006 2:46 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark
^^^These records are really beautiful. I just put on Yellow Fields.
― ojo, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 03:44 (sixteen years ago)
New Valentin Silvestrov album "Sacred Works" on the ECM New Series is tearfully, wonderfully awesome! Kiev Chamber Choir conducted by Mykola Hobdych doing liturgical chants, spirituals, psalms... Picked it up on a whim today from our sadly struggling local classical music specialist and am so pleased I did. Oh wow.
― krakow, Thursday, 12 November 2009 00:23 (sixteen years ago)
I have Silvestrov's "Requiem For Larissa" already, but will definitely be going back to order the rest of his ECM stuff now.
Also picked up a copy of the new ECM catalogue, which makes for very nice idle browsing.
― krakow, Thursday, 12 November 2009 00:25 (sixteen years ago)
Wow, hadn't heard Silvestrov before. Gorgeous. Thank you
― Bangelo, Thursday, 12 November 2009 00:44 (sixteen years ago)
i'm curious about this album:
http://www.popsike.com/pix/20090922/390097169535.jpg
― scott seward, Thursday, 12 November 2009 04:55 (sixteen years ago)
cuz i love the cover basically. but also cuz i see it described as jazz/krautrock.
― scott seward, Thursday, 12 November 2009 04:56 (sixteen years ago)
scott, u can download from here if you're interestedhttp://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2008/08/wolfgang-dauner-output-lp-1970-germany.html
― jaxon, Thursday, 12 November 2009 05:05 (sixteen years ago)
this julian priester album "love love" is so so so fucking amazing. side long heavy heavy funky spacey jazz. kinda like mwandishi
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h109/pbksound/2b3f57b3.jpg
I only have an MP3 of the title track but it is awesome...one of the best ECMs.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:21 (sixteen years ago)
Where should I look, within the the ECM catalogue, for other cool laptop fusion as in this year's Jon Hassell album?
― Deliquescing (Derelict), Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:40 (sixteen years ago)
the second side of that preister isn't as good. i mean, it's cool, but a lot looser and not as funky.
― jaxon, Thursday, 12 November 2009 19:27 (sixteen years ago)
i'm curious about this album: cuz i love the cover basically. but also cuz i see it described as jazz/krautrock.
It's excellent
― I Poxy the Fule (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 November 2009 19:29 (sixteen years ago)
cool. i will listen. i just got a TON of ecm stuff i've never heard, so i'll report back.
don't have a copy anymore, but i remember digging this record. i'm not a braxton expert either, so don't know where it rates for his fans.
http://jazz.com/assets/2008/2/6/albumcoverCircle-ParisConcert-AnthonyBraxton-ChickCorea-DaveHolland.jpg
― scott seward, Thursday, 12 November 2009 19:37 (sixteen years ago)
One more recommendation for Valentin Silvestrov. Specially for Leggiero, Pessante. The Postludium pieces are gorgeous.
― Moka, Thursday, 12 November 2009 19:42 (sixteen years ago)
2nd the upthread recommendation for marion brown "afternoon of a georgia faun." it's great. mellow, twinkly improv.
― ian, Thursday, 12 November 2009 19:47 (sixteen years ago)
Thanks Moka. I'm going to gradually pick up the whole lot, but it's good to know where to lean my ears.
― krakow, Thursday, 12 November 2009 19:48 (sixteen years ago)
halfway through that Dauner. i wouldn't call it jazz or kraut. it's weird improv. electronics, tuned drums. maybe a trumpet?
― jaxon, Thursday, 12 November 2009 19:55 (sixteen years ago)
ok, just got to a more 'traditional' jazz song w/weird keyboard soloing through some ring modulator.
― jaxon, Thursday, 12 November 2009 19:59 (sixteen years ago)
Jan Garbarek's first album for the label "Afric Pepperbird" is pretty damn good too.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:06 (sixteen years ago)
scott that circle album is awesome and, from what i know, highly regarded among braxton fans
― mark cl, Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:09 (sixteen years ago)
my favorite ECM joint tho, w/o doubt, is dave holland's conference of the birds:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/19/DaveHollandConferenceCover.jpg
― mark cl, Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:10 (sixteen years ago)
braxton's on it too. one of my favorite jazz albums prob
No doubt, Conference of the Birds is a truly great record from start to finish.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:13 (sixteen years ago)
hey, i like it a bunch too. let's start a club! i hope i still have a copy of that cuz now i want to play it.
― scott seward, Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:18 (sixteen years ago)
the second half of that dauner record is def more jazzy and totally sounds like alice coltrane or sun ra when they're doing the wammy thing on their organ a LOT.
― jaxon, Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:52 (sixteen years ago)
conference of the birds is dope imo.
― ian, Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:27 (sixteen years ago)
and i've never listened to the Circle LP despite seeing it around all the time. my fave braxton is "Creative Orchestra Music".
― ian, Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:28 (sixteen years ago)
I've always wanted to hear that Marion Brown album.
On the ECM new music tip, seek out all the discs they've published of Kurtag's music. Especially Kafka Fragments and the disc of string quartet music played by the Keller Quartet.
― Durian Durian (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:52 (sixteen years ago)
i dunno if you listen to rekkerds jon, but i see the marion brown LP around a lot and it's cheap if it's the US pressing--and still affordable as a german pressing.
― ian, Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:59 (sixteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG-KGDKBS_s
― Mr. Big STFU (ojo), Thursday, 12 November 2009 22:38 (sixteen years ago)
xpost Pretty much all my listening is at my desk at work on headphones, so i pretty much only listen to vinyl if it's been digitized. I can probably google up a link for that LP if I put my mind to it.
Someday, if I'm ever a fancy-schmancy work-at-home writer type again, I'll get back in the vinyl game...
― Durian Durian (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 12 November 2009 22:39 (sixteen years ago)
listening now to:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41VJ4RJEGAL._SL500_AA240_.jpg
dreamy proto-new age stuff. pretty. would pair well with a mellow sativa high. possibly a korean skunk or afghani blend.
― scott seward, Friday, 13 November 2009 16:03 (sixteen years ago)
on another point, i gotta say this label's cover art is better than ever imo.
― jØrdån (omar little), Friday, 13 November 2009 16:07 (sixteen years ago)
finally heard a d/load of that dave holland/derek bailey duo that i mentioned in my January 2004 post (christ) - it's absolutely stunning, holland kinda mirrors bailey's sounds and moves so that at times it's nearly impossible to distinguish the instruments - def. one of the albs most deserving of a cd reish
and of course pl add my name to list of the conference of the birds lovers, love sam rivers as much as brax
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 13 November 2009 16:20 (sixteen years ago)
now playing:
http://www.recordsale.org/cdpix/r/ralph_towner-batik(2).jpg
great nervous energy on this. would pair well with a heady indica strain. perhaps a hong kong kush.
― scott seward, Friday, 13 November 2009 16:58 (sixteen years ago)
Great underrated trio record:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2233/1827271427_95bc12655f.jpg?v=0
― Bay-L.A. Bar Talk (Hurting 2), Friday, 13 November 2009 17:39 (sixteen years ago)
There's a new book out about ECM cover art...
Windfall Light
― krakow, Saturday, 14 November 2009 00:12 (sixteen years ago)
Saw this thread the other day and it made me think, "I should check out my local shop's used ECM vinyl section." There are a lot of records in it. So I picked up this, one side of which I really like.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31msL5gaPuL._SS500_.jpg
― Mark, Saturday, 14 November 2009 04:20 (sixteen years ago)
this record is crazy. don preston on synthesizers and drum machines and michael mantler on trumpet. half of the time the drum machine sounds broken with really dark washes of synth. sometimes the synth is doing more standard arpegios and stuff. it almost sounds like a mix of a goblin soundtrack and supersilent.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/223/503798088_67a56b88dc.jpg
― jaxon, Saturday, 14 November 2009 06:03 (sixteen years ago)
speaking of Gary Burton , saw some Gary Burton thing on Vanguard at the rekkid store tonight ... A recording of a Carla Bley libretto? with like Gary Peacock and Coryell ... and also I think Steve Lacy? wait, why didn;t I buy this again?? oh well, sure it will be there tomorrow should I choose to go back
― Stormy Davis, Saturday, 14 November 2009 06:13 (sixteen years ago)
was it this? if so, it's really good.
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf600/f649/f64995u4ow2.jpg
― jaxon, Saturday, 14 November 2009 07:18 (sixteen years ago)
that's "a genuine tong funeral"
― jaxon, Saturday, 14 November 2009 07:19 (sixteen years ago)
yup, that's the one.
VG+ copy, 8.99
suppose I should grab it
― Stormy Davis, Saturday, 14 November 2009 07:37 (sixteen years ago)
never seen it before, also Reckless does grade really conservatively, I'll head back and take a look ... as i don't see any cat scratch stuff i will probably just grab it
― Stormy Davis, Saturday, 14 November 2009 07:39 (sixteen years ago)
i'm gonna have to light up an old fusion thread soon. bought a ton of records and got lots of 70's fusion stuff i've never heard.
― scott seward, Saturday, 14 November 2009 17:57 (sixteen years ago)
got in a copy of the enrico rava quartet album with roswell rudd from 1978 and was gonna price it and put it out in the store, but i really like it! so i think i'll just keep it. very cool mix of trad and less trad sounds. already played it three times today.
― scott seward, Saturday, 12 December 2009 18:36 (sixteen years ago)
i've been obsessing over certain strains of ECM over the past couple weeks. just went digging through a roommate's bag full of old jazz CDs, among which were the following ECM cd's. needless to say I'm very excited.
John Abercrombie - Cat'n'MouseJohn Abercrombie - The Third QuartetJohn Abercrombie / Ralph Towner - Sargasso SeaDave Holland Trio - TriplicateDave Holland Quartet - Dream of the EldersDave Holland Quintet - Not For NothinDave Holland Big Band - What Goes AroundCharles Lloyd - Voice in the NightCharles Llod / Billy Higgins - Which Way is EastPaul Motian / Bill Frisell / Joe Lavano - I Have the Room Above Her
― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 01:51 (fifteen years ago)
having come back full circle to what i was into when i was 14, Bright Size Life being my favorite piece of music for a good year when i first started getting into jazz, I never knew anything about hte label it was on. i'm feeling pretty fucking great in early 2011 walking around in the freezing cold with ECM records like that and others in my earbuds
― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 01:56 (fifteen years ago)
the liner notes to the Higgins / Lloyd double disc are so wild. it's a transcription of a conversation between the two, the CD was released a few months before Higgins died, and it's eerily poignant and bittersweet. two old friends talking about all the shit they've done and Higgins saying, "here we are, on another plane now".
― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 02:13 (fifteen years ago)
i love those frisell/motian/lovano records. don't know much holland or abercrombie stuff, but they're both dudes i plan on getting around to.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 02:45 (fifteen years ago)
Yeah man, so far the Motian one is my favorite. I'm trying to get It Should Have Happened A Long Time Ago by the same trio next.
― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 02:57 (fifteen years ago)
my fave by them is "sound of love" (which might just be under motian's name, but is a trio rec with frisell and lovano).
― tylerw, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 02:58 (fifteen years ago)
im feelin BITTER FUNERAL BEER so hard right now, definitely one of my ECM faves
― 69, Monday, 28 February 2011 22:35 (fifteen years ago)
I just scored a bunch of dollar ECM records... some Keith Jarrett solo joints mostly. Also a Collin Walcott solo record, had no idea the dude was in (the band) Oregon!
― sleeve, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 03:53 (fifteen years ago)
just read about the Ricardo Villalobos/Max Loderbauer ECM remix record:
http://www.theliminal.co.uk/2011/06/ricardo-villalobos-max-loderbauer-re-ecm/
― geeta, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 16:39 (fourteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tl93Cd80KY&feature=related
― D.S.K. What Does It Mean (lpz), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 17:01 (fourteen years ago)
Not sure what I think of this record; need to make more of an effort to give it the attention it (probably) deserves. Some of it is definitely great, but after a few listens while working I haven't absorbed much from it. Hopefully this is a good sign.
― toby, Thursday, 9 June 2011 05:40 (fourteen years ago)
this is great early 70s stuff - quiet fire guitar shredding and mr motian's sensitive fury on drums
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51tYvq7dkbL._SS500_.jpg
― backlash stan straw man fan (m coleman), Thursday, 9 June 2011 09:36 (fourteen years ago)
ECM released and releases great music. For me, John Abercrombie is a recent discovery on ECM. I just love Metheny's 'Bright Size Life' but now Abercrombie is my new favorite ECM-guitarist. As for recent output, I'd recommend 'Class Trip', that title track gives me shivers (that first violin note...). His playing on John Surman's 'Brewster's Rooster' is also very good. Older output as 'Sargasso Sea' with Ralph Towner and an old recording with Enrico Rava too.
'Vignettes' by Marilyn Crispell and 'The viola in my life' by Morton Feldman on ECM are worth getting too. Sound and perfomance are stellar.
― EvR, Thursday, 9 June 2011 09:47 (fourteen years ago)
i'm gonna have to light up an old fusion thread soon. bought a ton of records and got lots of 70's fusion stuff i've never heard.― scott seward, Saturday, 14 November 2009 17:57 (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― scott seward, Saturday, 14 November 2009 17:57 (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Scott, did you do this - because I would like to read it? Cannot have too much fusion at the moment.
― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Thursday, 9 June 2011 12:47 (fourteen years ago)
(I tried searching but it seem like only old threads?)
trying to get hold of a copy of BITTER FUNERAL BEER
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 10 June 2011 10:57 (fourteen years ago)
http://tristeshumanistes.blogspot.com/2011/03/bengt-berger-bitter-funeral-beer-band-w.html(am at work so can't check link - I hope it works tho' because I would like it too, have you got/heard the live album(s)?)
― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Friday, 17 June 2011 10:28 (fourteen years ago)
thanks - tho I meant a physical copy!
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 17 June 2011 10:34 (fourteen years ago)
Was enjoying Eberhard Weber's Yellow Fields the other day, kind of similar to a lot of the music on Robert Wyatt's Rock Bottom.
― cloaca flocka flame (NickB), Friday, 17 June 2011 10:41 (fourteen years ago)
Must check that out, dude played on a lot of Wolfgang Dauner stuff, so he's a'right by me
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Friday, 17 June 2011 10:45 (fourteen years ago)
Dunno any of his other stuff at all, so it might not be all that compared to the rest of his oeuvre. I do know he's Kate Bush's bass player though.
― cloaca flocka flame (NickB), Friday, 17 June 2011 10:47 (fourteen years ago)
sweet - I always admired the Pastorius-ish tones of the bass on some of KB's records (esp. Sensual World) so I'd def be interested in hearing this guy.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 17 June 2011 11:48 (fourteen years ago)
Well Mick Karn and John Giblin are also on that so it could be them, Weber's on double bass.
― cloaca flocka flame (NickB), Friday, 17 June 2011 11:55 (fourteen years ago)
Giblin's got a funny discog btw, he was the bass player on Scott Walker's Tilt AND Chris De Burgh's Lady In Red.
― cloaca flocka flame (NickB), Friday, 17 June 2011 11:58 (fourteen years ago)
If anybody wants to hear some of the Villalobos thing I've thrown a few track up on http://outloud.fm/ILXORS
― MaresNest, Friday, 17 June 2011 12:40 (fourteen years ago)
thanks - tho I meant a physical copy!― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 17 June 2011 10:34 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 17 June 2011 10:34 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I had a feeling you meant that as soon as I posted it.
― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Friday, 17 June 2011 13:51 (fourteen years ago)
I've been exploring ECM releases recently with some help from this thread (and the other one). So far I've picked up John Abercrombie's "Gateway" and Eberhard Weber's "Colors of Chloe", both of which are exactly the sort of thing I was looking for - atmospheric, pretty but with enough going on to save them from being background music. "Gateway" is a bit more fusion-y, and "Chloe" is more minimalist, but both are great.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 14:03 (thirteen years ago)
if you like calm, impressionist, folk-based jazz with a world touch i'd recommend anouar brahem, eg conte de l'incroyable amour. brahem is a tunisian oud player and the sound of his music is rather restrained and slightly oriental. one of the best on ecm these days.
― alex in mainhattan, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 22:29 (thirteen years ago)
Revive this. I just discovered the entire ECM catalog is on Mog.
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 10 March 2013 19:07 (thirteen years ago)
The first record by Rainer Brüninghaus, Eberhard Weber's keyboardist in Colors, is awesome. Kenny Wheeler and Jon Christiansen. No bass!
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 11 March 2013 12:40 (thirteen years ago)
Other finds via MOG:
Azimuth -- Kenny Wheeler, Norma Winstone on cox and John Taylor on piano and Berlin-sounding EMS arpeggios. 1977! Pieces of this feel like Klaus Schulze and Joni Mitchell getting high on a mountaintop somewhere.
Jack DeJohnette and John Surman -- The Amazing Adventures of Simon Simon. More synths -- this time with bass clarinet and congas. Very cool.
Barre Phillps -- Mountainscapes. Yet more synths!! Feisty and swinging, synths provide atmosphere and texture for John Surman to bounce off. Again: 1976.
Keith Jarrett -- Spheres. Another record which has traces of Krautrock, and from the most unlikely of places. "Spheres, 9th Movement" sounds like something from Tangerine Dream before they left Ohr. Not thinking the similarities are intentional.
Eberhard Weber -- The Following Morning. In the non-electronic ECM edition, this comes w Rainer Brüninghaus on piano, but no percussion, just orchestra. Big fan of Weber's Pendulum as well, which is overdubbed bass -- which in his case is awesome, not horrifying.
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 16 March 2013 19:06 (thirteen years ago)
Spheres has just been reissued; was sent a link to download it. Maybe now I will.
― 誤訳侮辱, Saturday, 16 March 2013 21:08 (thirteen years ago)
nice mixhttp://www.imposemagazine.com/bytes/new-music/anenon-all-ecm-everything-mix
― festival culture (Jordan), Friday, 26 September 2014 17:09 (eleven years ago)
i identify with this label too much, i think.
some of their classical stuff is not so great, maybe.
jamming a whole bunch of ECM paul bley albums recently.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 26 September 2014 18:34 (eleven years ago)
a few years ago i bought an eberhard weber LP just b/c it looked really nice and was like $12 for a NM LP. wasn't sure what to expect. ended up really really digging it.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 26 September 2014 18:49 (eleven years ago)
open, to love. is possibly my favorite 1960s-or-late solo piano record
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 26 September 2014 18:50 (eleven years ago)
1960s-or-later. i can't type today
"ida lupino" is the highlight for me
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 26 September 2014 18:55 (eleven years ago)
the fairly recent Alexei Lubimov disc of all the Debussy Preludes is among the best ever made of those pieces.
All of their Kurtag releases rule.
I wish I had a copy of Kim Kashkashian/Robert Levin's recording of the Brahms Viola Sonatas.
― von Daniken Donuts (Jon Lewis), Friday, 26 September 2014 19:04 (eleven years ago)
i hate that every time i see the name Kim kashkashian I think Kim Kardashian
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 26 September 2014 20:13 (eleven years ago)
though kim kardashian also has an album on ECM. it's a trio record with paul motian and jack dejohnette, i believe.
(gets busy making mock-up ECM album cover featuring a pastoral landscape with the title "sex tape" superimposed in a sans-serif font)
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 26 September 2014 20:14 (eleven years ago)
hahahaha!
― Dick Clownload (Dan Peterson), Friday, 26 September 2014 21:24 (eleven years ago)
fun listening to this ECM mix without checking the tracklist first
― ugh (lukas), Friday, 26 September 2014 21:29 (eleven years ago)
roffles
kim kardashian is a filthy whore
cheers,n
― nakhchivan, Friday, 26 September 2014 21:50 (eleven years ago)
celebrity sex tapes are everywhere nowadays
― mattresslessness, Friday, 26 September 2014 21:53 (eleven years ago)
yeah, though i wish i hadn't seen the paul/carla bley one, lots of awkward silences
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 26 September 2014 22:09 (eleven years ago)
http://ecmreviews.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/elixir.jpg
This is my favourite ECM release of recent years. I love Marilyn Mazur's band albums a lot too (though the best of those aren't on ECM, but on various Scandinavian lables), but there's just something beautifully primal about the combination of mere percussion and sax... I'm not sure if you should even call this jazz, it's just some deep organic ambient cowbell chants.
― Tuomas, Friday, 26 September 2014 22:24 (eleven years ago)
Ah, this is what I needed today, Tuomas, thanks!
Recently I picked up a free ECM sampler from 2011 or something, and a Jacob Young track on there called "Time Rebel" really stood out. I'd post a link but it's not on Youtube. Anyway, the tune is just beautiful, especially the percussion. I guess they are playing "time," but damn if I know what it is! The whole album is really, err, impressionistic, really haunted-sounding. The album doesn't deviate stylistically much from the one track I heard, which is fine by me. I will concede that something about the tone of the tone of the trumpet occasionally reminds me of Chuck Mangione, but, well...minor complaint.
Also, TS: Windham Hill Vs ECM? Actually, nevermind, I may start a separate thread for that.
― Wimmels, Friday, 17 July 2015 21:35 (ten years ago)
not one mention of Mal Waldron on this thread and he was ECM_001 and pretty fucking badass!
― calzino, Saturday, 4 June 2016 00:04 (nine years ago)
think he was also the first release on japo (ecm sister label?) featuring wolfgang dauner's rhythm section of the time... (add to the list of albums i need to hear)
― no lime tangier, Saturday, 4 June 2016 00:29 (nine years ago)
Sieg Haile off his Moods album is ridic+
― calzino, Saturday, 4 June 2016 00:53 (nine years ago)
I hate that none of this is streaming now that Mog is dead.
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 4 June 2016 04:53 (nine years ago)
Reading about MOG it looks like it was the grandfather? of Apple Music, so does anyone know why ECM isn't on there?
― MrExplorer, Saturday, 4 June 2016 08:02 (nine years ago)
I'd guess that Eicher - a known stickler for sound quality - would not really be into streaming.
― Wimmels, Saturday, 4 June 2016 10:35 (nine years ago)
Maybe not – but he did license the entire ECM catalogue to MOG.
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 5 June 2016 01:28 (nine years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hk7fFzPGxM
― Trucutru (lpz), Monday, 6 June 2016 19:42 (nine years ago)
Search "Silence" (Charlie Haden) from Magico (Haden, Gismonti, Garbarek). So simple and so sad. The tune is like an arrow made from a feather piercing my heart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW93IP5tnY0
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 15:48 (nine years ago)