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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
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Posted: Wed Oct 17 17:40:21 1984
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> 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