your fav ECM decade?
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Topic: your fav ECM decade?
Posted By: zicIy
Subject: your fav ECM decade?
Date Posted: September 28 2008 at 05:12
| i think in 80īs Manfred Eicher was produced the best of ECM. |
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: September 28 2008 at 07:01
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A hard one for me. On first impression I'd say '70's though when so many prog artists were going commercial in the '80's there was so much good music happening with that label which you could turn to.
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Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: September 28 2008 at 18:16
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80's since innovation and variety were the basic elements of ECM's distinctiveness - when so many other labels with jazz signings had gone smooth jazz or reverted to a semi-electirified post bop. Garbarek at his most experimental and broad ranging (try Rosensfole), Pat Metheny Group just kept releasing excellent album after excellent album, think of the innovation coming from Everyman Band and then from one its founders David Torn as he went solo. Terj Rypdal producing some innovative jazzrock (e.g. SInglesCollection, Chaser), John Abercrombie, Ralph Towner all produced consistently good albums.
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Posted By: BroSpence
Date Posted: September 29 2008 at 02:35
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Wow this is a tough one. The good thing to note is that ECM has remained a great, consistent label. The 70s really stand out to me because of the Towner, Abercrombie, Walcott, Gismonti, and early Metheny and Metheny/Burton albums, Keith Jarrett, Ebernhard Webr and so many more artists....Oh...I guess I just answered the question. haha. The 80s were so good too like the 80/81 album, the latter era Abercrombie albums, Charlie Mariano, Gary Peacock, Towner, Oregon, Towner and Abecrombie, and so on.
So I vote 70s. But I like them all. |
Posted By: BroSpence
Date Posted: September 29 2008 at 02:35
| sh*t I didn't see that "They're all great" option. Oh well. |
Posted By: superprog
Date Posted: September 29 2008 at 02:46
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can't help but love the 70s, most of my fav ECM albums are from that period........
ALL the Terje Rypdal jazz-rock masterpieces
Julian Priester - Love, Love
Barre Phillips - Mountainscapes, Three Day Moon
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: September 29 2008 at 07:57
You know, I was trying really hard to forget about the smooth jazz movement, thanks a lot.  ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Dick Heath wrote:Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: September 30 2008 at 17:46
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70's of course.
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Posted By: Alberto Muņoz
Date Posted: October 16 2008 at 11:54
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70's have the cream of ECM releases -------------  |
Posted By: febus
Date Posted: October 16 2008 at 13:14
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I haven't seen any drop in quality of music from a decade to another.
There is no Jazz ''Abacab'' or ''Big generator'' from ECM in the 80s...Just some musicians who changed a little bit their styles for the better or worst due to ''maturation'' , not because of charts!.............Jan Garbarek comes to mind!
Of course i love the 70s albums from TERJE RYPDAL more than what he produced later, but it was always good quality anyway!
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Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: October 16 2008 at 13:45
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70`s what else do expect from me ? Abercromie`s recordings were the best.
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