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Abraxas 
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Ok, I know there's a thread concerning this music label, but let's make it faster.
I'm interested in knowing what you guys would consider the 10 Essential ECM Albums at your criteria.
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Kazuhiro
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Posted: 21 Aug 2011 at 7:38pm |
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It was difficult for me to elect ten albums. However, I thought that these albums always started listing. This is personally favorite of me. RTF - 1st In addition, I recommend "Neighbourhood" of Manu Katche as a personal favorite album. |
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Posted: 21 Aug 2011 at 7:44pm |
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^thanks, will have to check the Kuhn and Rypdal albums!
I'm just listening to Koln Concert for the first time, amazing.
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Posted: 21 Aug 2011 at 8:01pm |
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Yes. Koln Concert is a really wonderful album. And,a better recommendation is believed for Slarti to appear at once perhaps and to be done. |
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Posted: 21 Aug 2011 at 9:32pm |
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I'm not a big ECM fan, but I remember being very impressed with Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians (or is it 16?)
Also, an ECM sampler i had from the late 70s seemed very modern at the time with its mix of minimalist composers and world jazz like Codona, that was a cool record.
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I am here with Kazuhiro's ECM No.1 - Chick Corea's Returmn To Forever album is possibly greatest ECM release I ever heard. The other what comes to mind is Jan Garbarek's debut on ECM - "Afric Pepperbird". Overall almost all greatest ECM releases come from very early 70s when the label was really progressive. With mid 70s pop/world fusion and pop/third stream becoming their moving power for me ECM became respectable but boring label (with later new age/jazz cocktails they became not simply boring but sometimes just terribly boring). Few last decades long they try to refresh their program a bit with some success, but do it on very safe manner.
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Posted: 22 Aug 2011 at 3:10am |
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in chronological order
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I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that it's extremely predictable, it's a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again ...
Ken Burns |
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Posted: 22 Aug 2011 at 3:24am |
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^ You reminded me another great ECM album - the debut again: Nels Petter Molvaer "Khmer". Excellent Nordic folk roots and some simplistic electronics, cool airy sound.One of nu jazz cornerstone release. Quite unusual release for ECM (Molvaer will change the label soon after this release).
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Wow, tricky question, because I'm not a big ECM fan either
I'll try to make out a list this week.... just picked up last year's ECM label catalogue... and I'll leaf through it to make sure I don't miss out on something unforgiveable.
to me, RTF's first album is certainly the best.... but i'll add to that soon.
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my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicted musicians to crazy ones....
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Posted: 22 Aug 2011 at 10:12am |
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Bennie Maupin - The Jewel In The Lotus is between ECM best releases as well.
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Posted: 22 Aug 2011 at 12:17pm |
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Thanks for all the recs, keep them coming. Some favorites of mine that haven't been mentioned: Watercolours by Metheny (as well as all the early PMG albums) Crystal Silence by Corea/Burton Timeless by Abercrombie And well, Manfred Schoof's albums belong to the JAPO label which derives from ECM, so that counts I think. Edited by Abraxas - 22 Aug 2011 at 12:29pm |
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Posted: 23 Aug 2011 at 3:42am |
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In a somawhat chronoligical and preferrence order
Chick Corea - Return To Forever
Mal Waldron - The Call
Terje Rypdal - Whenever I seem To Be So Far Away & What Comes After
Julian Priester & Pepo Mtoto - Love, Love
Bernie Maupin - The Jewel In The Lotus
Keith Jarrett - The Koln Concert
Azimuth - Departure John Surman/John Warren - The Brass Project
Worth a mention (but not that I would one day own them)
Metheny's New Chateauqua, Offramp and Amzerican Garage
Abercrombie's Gateway series
I still have to explore (after that I think, I'll have to give iot a rest)
Kenny Wheeler's Music For Large Ensemble (90) and Long Time Ago (98)
Miroslav Vitous's The Journey (82) and Universal Syncopations (03)
John Surman Stranger Than Fiction (93) and Adventure Playground (91)
The Music Improvisation Company 's ST album with Jamie Muir (70)
Globe Unity Improvisation's Compositions and Improvisations (79 & 77)
Jan Garbarek's Sart (71) Afric Pepperbird (72) and Places (77)
Steve Khun's Trance (74)
Dave Holland Quintet's Jumping In and Shades Of Time (83 & 84)
Holland/Phillips's Music For Two Basses (71)
Bill Connors - Of Mist And Meting (78)
Elton Dean - Boundaries (80)
Gary Burton Quintet w Eberhard Weber's Rong, Dream So Real and Passengers (74 to 76) I'm also looking for recommendations in
Michael Mantler's and Charles Lloyd's ECM and/or Watt discography
Art Ensemble Of Chicago's ECM catalogue
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my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicted musicians to crazy ones....
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Posted: 23 Aug 2011 at 7:08pm |
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Idlero ... One of these days I'm gonna cut you up into little pieces ... that's too much music !!!
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Posted: 23 Aug 2011 at 7:16pm |
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Hi,
Ok ... my top ten? ... just don't call me an ol' foggie!
The order is negligeable and not important.
Keith Jarrett - The Koln Concert (the best piano concert ever recorded, classic or otherwise!)
Egberto Gismonti - No Caipira
Egberto Gismonti - Sol do Meio Dia
Jan Garbarek - Eventyr
Jan Garbarek/Gismonti/Haden - Magico
Terje Rypdal - (with David Darling) Eos
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I have to look at the names of the albums ... but th eartists are:
Eberhard Weber
John Abercrombie
Charlie Haden
David Darling
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Those are all great albums. Egberto é um gênio. The only ECM album I physically own is this one:  and it's really good.
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... muito especial! Musica maravilhosa!
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Julian Priester's Love,Love is my personal favorite, Ironically it is not what I would call a typical ECM release, It's sound is not icy cold nor European sounding, Meaning, blues less , This is atmospheric Jazz funk, sort of a sister album of the Hancock Mwandishi Albums, and maybe better. I am leaning that way after years of comparison. I don't mean this as a slam of ECM, I happen to really like the chamber jazz sound of Terje Rypdal, and John Surman and the like. That Trio Beyond saudades live double cd is killer, any of the 21st Century Paul Motian albums are real good, Metheny's Off ramp, any of the Dave Holland albums are worth while.
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Posted: 04 Sep 2011 at 10:40am |
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Tough one, just 10 favorites:
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Terje Rypdal - 1st
Terje Rypdal - Odyssey Terje Rypdal - Waves Barre Phillips - Mountainscapes Barre Phillips - Three Day Moon Markus Stockhausen - Karta Jon Hassell - Power Spot Pat Metheny Group - s/t Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays - As Wichita Falls So Falls Wichita Julian Priester - Love Love |
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Posted: 10 Sep 2011 at 10:18pm |
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GREAT STUFF! Thanks for that.
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