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Reflektor Manfred Eicher, Part 2

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Part 1 | Part 2 Photos from “Reflektor Mandred Eicher" held in Hamburg in The Elbphilharmonie. This is the second part of the Festival dedicated to ECM musicians and Manfred Eicher. February 5th and 6th I saw, among others Manfred Eicher, Avishai Cohen, Anouar Brahem, Egberto Gismonti, Meredith Monk, Tallin Chamber Orchestra, Pablo Marquez and Anja Lechner. ...

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In Pictures

Reflektor Manfred Eicher, Part 1

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Photos from “Reflektor Mandred Eicher" held in Hamburg in The Elbphilharmonie. This is the first part of the Festival dedicated to ECM musicians and Manfred Eicher. February 2nd, 3rd and 4th I saw, among the others Manfred Eicher, Louis Sclavis, Arvo Part, Heiner Goebbels, Tonu Kaljuste, Tallin Chamber Orchestra, Kim Kashkashian. ...

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Live Review

Manfred Eicher: ECM 50 at Centre Culturel Flagey, Brussels

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This article first appeared at italia.allaboutjazz.com. ECM 50Centre Culturel FlageyBrussels, BelgiumNovember 21-24, 2019 During the year marking the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the German record company ECM, there have been numerous music festivals in Europe and America dedicated to the official celebration of the event. One of the most important was certainly the one held at the end of November in Brussels, which saw the participation of numerous artists connected to ...

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Live Review

Manfred Eicher - L'uomo che fa accadere la musica: ECM 50 a Flagey, Bruxelles

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ECM 50 Centro Culturale Flagey Bruxelles, Belgio 21-24.11.2019 Nell'anno in cui ricorre il cinquantesimo anniversario della fondazione della casa discografica tedesca ECM sono stati numerosi in Europa e America i festival musicali dedicati alla celebrazione ufficiale dell'evento. Uno dei più importanti è sicuramente stato quello svoltosi alla fine di Novembre a Bruxelles, che ha visto la partecipazione di numerosi artisti collegati all'etichetta esibitisi nell'arco di quattro giorni in 12 concerti presso il centro culturale di ...

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Radio & Podcasts

November Birthday Salutes Featuring ECM Artists

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It is... time for November birthday salutes! Pianists Hampton Hawes, Ellis Marsalis, Paul Bley, Lyle Mays, Marcin Wasilewski; flutist Hubert Laws; singer Ernestine Anderson; guitarist Russell Malone; saxophonists Lou Donaldson, Mark Turner; trumpeters Arturo Sandoval & Don Cherry; drummers Andrew Cyrille & Billy Hart! And resident sage Mose Allison. You'll notice a slug of ECM artists featured this November since it is also the 50th anniversary of ECM Records, which Manfred Eicher started in November, 1969. Our second hour is ...

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Extended Analysis

Manfred Eicher: ECM - Selected Signs III - VIII

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When München's Haus der Kunst sponsored a nearly three-month exhibition about the ECM Records label, ECM: A Cultural Archeology, which ran from November, 2012 to February, 2013, there was far more to it than just bringing together collections of album covers, rarely seen video, archival tapes, imagery and concert performances. As much as ECM has carved a niche for itself as a label concerned about the whole package, including quality of sound, design and artwork, it is, after all, a ...

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Profile

Manfred Eicher: Through the Lens

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It begins in silence, always silence. Since the 1990s, all ECM recordings begin with five seconds of silence, and so, too, do directors Norbert Wiedmer and Peter Guyer open their feature film on the heralded German record label and its enigmatic founder, Sounds and Silence: Travels with Manfred Eicher. As longtime ECM recording artist Keith Jarrett's performance of G.I. Gurdjieff's “Reading of Sacred Books," from the pianist's Sacred Hymns (1980), begins in the background, the film fades in on Eicher, ...

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TV / Film

ECM Film Screening of "Sounds and Silence Travels: With Manfred Eicher" at IFC Center (NYC) on September 12th

ECM Film Screening of "Sounds and Silence Travels: With Manfred Eicher" at IFC Center (NYC) on September 12th

Source: Michael Ricci

Sounds and Silence: Travels With Manfred Eicher September 12th, 6:30PM IFC Center 323 Avenue of the Americas (at West 3rd) Film-makers Peter Guyer and Norbert Wiedmer spent five years following ECM founder and celebrated record producer Manfred Eicher to sessions, concerts and festivals around the globe. Featured musicians include Arvo Pärt, Eleni Karaindrou, Dino Saluzzi, Anja Lechner, Jan Garbarek, Kim Kashkashian, Nik Bärtsch, Gianluigi Trovesi, Anouar Brahem, Marilyn Mazur and more. This acclaimed documentary film won the 2009 Berner Film ...

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Video / DVD

"Sounds and Silence: Travels with Manfred Eicher" - Directed by Norbert Wiedmer and Peter Guyer (DVD, Blue-Ray)

"Sounds and Silence: Travels with Manfred Eicher" - Directed by Norbert Wiedmer and Peter Guyer (DVD, Blue-Ray)

Source: Michael Ricci

Available on DVD | Blu-Ray Sounds and Silence / Music for a Film (ECM, CD) Over a period of five years, Swiss filmmakers Norbert Wiedmer and Peter Guyer followed producer Manfred Eicher and the artists of ECM around the world. In footage from Estonia, Tunisia, Germany, France, Denmark, Greece, Argentina and elsewhere, their documentary movie Sounds and Silence captures aspects of the music-making process at ECM, and provides glimpses of unique players and composers at work. Amongst the ...

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Interview

Other Places: Manfred Eicher and ECM

Other Places: Manfred Eicher and ECM

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey

Manfred Eicher has been successful with his ECM label not by constantly taking the pulse of the public and the record industry but by recording music he likes. That is an oversimplification, but not much of one. In the British newspaper The Guardian, Richard Williams has a piece about Eicher and his 40 years at the helm of the company he founded. Near the top of the article, he writes:

To its many admirers, ECM stands for a certain meditative, ...

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Award / Grant

Third-time DownBeat Poll Win for Manfred Eicher and ECM

Third-time DownBeat Poll Win for Manfred Eicher and ECM

Source: Michael Ricci

For the third consecutive year, the DownBeat Critics Poll has voted Manfred Eicher Producer of the Year and ECM Records Label of the Year. Results are announced in the August edition of the US jazz magazine, which reaches international newsstands in mid-July. The latest poll wins come just two months after Eicher received DownBeat's Lifetime Achievement Award, established “to recognize the accomplishments and contributions of the jazz pioneers, entrepreneurs and clarion callers who work tirelessly to connect jazz artists with ...

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Award / Grant

Manfred Eicher Wins Downbeat Lifetime Achievement Award

Manfred Eicher Wins Downbeat Lifetime Achievement Award

Source: Michael Ricci

ECM producer Manfred Eicher is the recipient of the 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award from venerable US jazz magazine DownBeat. The award was established in 1981, as a counterpart to the DownBeat Hall of Fame, “to recognize the accomplishments and contributions of the jazz pioneers, entrepreneurs and clarion callers who work tirelessly to connect jazz artists with audiences around the world." The award follows two consecutive wins for Eicher as Producer of the Year in the DownBeat Critics Polls of 2008 ...

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Event

Manfred Eicher Appearing in NYC - Open to the Public

Manfred Eicher Appearing in NYC - Open to the Public

Source: ECM Records

Don't miss a rare opportunity to hear Manfred Eicher (Producer and Founder of ECM Records)in conversation with Gary Giddins (critic /author)November 19th, Thursday, 6:30pmProshansky AuditoriumThe Graduate Center, CUNY365 Fifth Ave (at 34th St)FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. NO RESERVATIONS. Information: 212/817.2005centerforthehumanitiesgc.orgManfred Eicher founded ECM Records in 1969 specifically aiming to record jazz with great attention to sonic detail. Now 40 years later, the ECM catalog contains ...

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Award / Grant

Manfred Eicher and ECM Win Downbeat 2009 Award

Manfred Eicher and ECM Win Downbeat 2009 Award

Source: All About Jazz

Echoing the results of last year's poll, Manfred Eicher and ECM are voted Producer of the Year and Label of the Year in the 57th Annual DownBeat Critics Poll. This double-win is announced in the August issue of the venerable US jazz magazine (founded 1934). The awards arrive in ECM's 40th anniversary year. It was in the autumn of 1969 that Eicher founded his label; seven years later, in 1976, he won DownBeat's Top Producer award for the first time. ...

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Award / Grant

Manfred Eicher and ECM Win Downbeat Critics Poll

Manfred Eicher and ECM Win Downbeat Critics Poll

Source: All About Jazz

Manfred Eicher is voted Producer of the Year and ECM Records is Label of the Year 2008 in the DownBeat Critics Poll: this double-win is announced in the August issue of the US jazz magazine, which includes full results of their 56th Annual International Critics Poll. The awards arrive as Munich-based ECM, founded 1969, approaches its 40th anniversary year. While Eicher won DownBeat's Top Producer award in 1976, and ECM was Label of the Year in 1980, the 2008 poll ...

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Award / Grant

Manfred Eicher and ECM Records Win Down Beat Critics Poll

Manfred Eicher and ECM Records Win Down Beat Critics Poll

Source: All About Jazz

Manfred Eicher is voted Producer of the Year and ECM Records is Label of the Year 2008 in the Down Beat Critics Poll: this double-win is announced in the August issue of the US jazz magazine, which includes full results of their 56th Annual International Critics Poll.

The awards arrive as Munich-based ECM, founded 1969, approaches its 40th anniversary year. While Eicher won Down Beat's Top Producer award in 1976, and ECM was Label of the Year in 1980, the ...

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