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    Posted: 16 Aug 2020 at 7:34am
Over the past year I've discovered so many great albums released by ECM Records. I realized at some point that I had overlooked almost all albums released under the label, even though I was long familiar with many of the artists who've recorded with them, at least from back in the 70s/80s. Since then it had been a fruitful and rewarding experience. At times it feels like it's own genre. It's not always music I would label as "jazz" as some of the music goes beyond genre labels.

What are your favorites from the label?

I think most of us know these albums, these are some of the most popular albums from the label.
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There is a ECM thread with a several pages on here somewhere, but I can't find it right now.
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Found it, it was hidden because we had to get rid of the mp3s.
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Originally posted by js js wrote:

There is a ECM thread with a several pages on here somewhere, but I can't find it right now.


That is why I started this one, but I'll head over to the other thread and see what's going on.
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A recent favorite
"Big Map Idea" from 1989
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I really like some ECM early releases, when they were most adventurous ever in label's history, like Jan Garbarek Afric Pepperbird

 JAN GARBAREK - Afric Pepperbird cover


80s and 90s were too much "ambient/new age" period for label as for my taste, in a new Millennium they returned back  with some more adventurous works, partially from new NYC avantgarde jazz artists as Tim Berne or Michael Formanek.

TIM BERNE - Snakeoil cover


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My 10 Favorite ECM Albums:

1) Ralph Towner/Gary Burton: Matchbook (1975)
2) Tomasz Stanko Quartet: Suspended Night (2004)
3) Chick Corea/Gary Burton: Crystal Silence (1973)
4) Enrico Rava: The Plot (1977)
5) Jan Garbarek/Bobo Stenson: Witchi-Tai-To (1974)
6) John Abercrombie: Current Events (1986)
7) Old and New Dreams: Playing (1980)
8) Eberhard Weber: Yellow Fields (1976)
9) Tomasz Stanko Quartet: Soul of Things (2002)
10) Kenny Wheeler: Double Double You (1984)
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Hi,

I'm seeing if I can get a listing of stuff for 2024 ... out of curiosity, although I expect a lot of new names that I am not familiar with ... instead of older stuff. 

I really would like to see/hear some more of Egberto Gismonti's classical style music ... what he has done in some places (No Caipira a great example). 

And lastly, at one time I heard a harmonica inside what could be considered a concerto of some sort and it was at least 15 minutes long ... to this day I have never found it, and I can not imagine this not being done by ECM at all .... specially as the harmonica (or equivalent) was not exactly used as a classical instrument, and a lot of orchestras would not touch it, or use it! It wasn't a "song" at all, and we might even suggest it was not exactly "jazz" ... but its flow and freedom was insanely good!
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