Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site aluxz.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!amd!dual!zehntel!ihnp4!mhuxj!aluxz!wfb From: wfb@aluxz.UUCP (bailey) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Re: ECM Message-ID: <184@aluxz.UUCP> Date: Wed, 17-Oct-84 17:40:21 EDT Article-I.D.: aluxz.184 Posted: Wed Oct 17 17:40:21 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 19-Oct-84 06:12:14 EDT References: <10458@gatech.UUCP> <2603@ucbvax.ARPA> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Allentown, PA Lines: 28 > ECM is a West German label specializing mainly in Jazz. Its recording > artists include Pat Metheny, Jack DeJonette, Carla Bley, Eberhard Weber, > Keith Jarrett, Denny Zeitlin, and Charlie Haden. Some avant-garde > classical music (works composed and performed by Steve Reich, in > particular) is also released on the label. > > Distribution in this country is through the WEA (Warner/Elektra/Asylum) > group, and is limited, unfortunately, to the talent most suitable to > American tastes. What comes over here, though, is high quality music > with quality control quite far ahead of the normal stuff that you will > find (though not quite at WH's level). > > Good starter stuff? Give Keith Jarrett's Koln Concert or Pat Metheny's > New Chatauqua a try. > > --From the birthplace of FSM (1964-1984), > --Nick Cuccia > --ucbvax!cuccia I had heard that someone had asked about the meaning of 'ECM'. Well, a group of us came up with the guess that it is the initials of the company's founder, Manfred C. Eicher, reversed. Now, that might be stretching things a bit..... Can someone else crack this one? -Bill Bailey AT&T Bell Laboratories Allentown PA aluxz!wfb