Top 10 ECM albums?

 

I remember when I saw this advert in Melody Maker that Ash Ra Tempel and Terje Rypdal's Odyssey were playing together in London somewhere ... and a couple of months later the "Odyssey" album showed up at the station and Guy Guden played it, and a couple of other folks also liked a couple of pieces in the album ... and while I liked it, and enjoyed listening to it, I could not help thinking that I was listening to a jazz band that was not interested in being a jazz band ... and that Terje was actually adding something to the bottom end, and it didn't matter if that bottom was jazz, rock, or anything else.

 

I still ahve over 10 or 12 LP's of his music and like everyone of them ... but I am not sure that the majority of the music he does is actually "jazz" ... it just fits in a different place, and I really consider the majority of the work, plain classical music with the electric guitar being the instrument instead of a violin or anything else.

 

But it will be another 100 years before the electric guitar is considered a bona fide instrument in an orchestra! It's too bad, because even Frank Zappa showed that you could conduct an electric guitar just fine! ... and it's still not done!