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Your favourite ECM album

 
    • obrien99 schrieb...
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    • 17. Mai. 2008, 10:04

    Your favourite ECM album

    Let's share what do you think it's the best ECM album.

    For a some time now my ultimate winner is

    Personal Mountains

    Bearbeitet von obrien99 am 25. Mai. 2008, 19:48
  • re: the impossible question

    Great question - you got me provoked. But there's clearly more than one answer, since these are favorites for different reasons :
    My first ECM album : Ralph Towner and Solstice - Sound and Shadows.
    Most quintessentially "ECM" ECM album : Tomasz Stanko - Matko Joanna.
    Most compelling new direction for ECM : John Balke and Batagraf - Statements.
    Well, I could go on...

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    • onzemars schrieb...
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    • 24. Mai. 2008, 2:25
    Well, definitely 'Tabula Rasa' by Arvo Pärt.
    And my recent favourite is 'The Jewel In The Lotus' by Bennie Maupin.

    I've never heard of the titles mentioned by the OP and borealiz-nu, I'll give those a listen soon :-)

    • obrien99 schrieb...
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    • 25. Mai. 2008, 19:18
    Bought 'Tabula Rasa' today and totally felt for it. Thanks for the tip!

  • Your favourite ECM album

    it has to be (without a single doubt):
    1. Ballad Of The Fallen
    2. Musique Mecanique
    3. The Köln Concert
    4. Nafas

    ah, hell, what am i saying, any! and if it is available on vynil, even better...

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  • No doubt. My answer is:
    Steve Tibbetts - Safe journey



    Steve Eliovson - Dawn dance
    Jan Garbarek - Dis
    Ketil Bjornstad - The sea
    Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays - As falls Wichita, so falls Wichita falls


    • [Gelöschter Benutzer] schrieb...
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    • 15. Jun. 2008, 14:06
    Thats an amazing question... It is hard to say which is my favorite. One I do find myself going back to however is Perter Erskine's Time Being. Love love LOVE Taylor and Palle on that album!

    • CINSE7EN schrieb...
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    • vodyanoj schrieb...
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    • 28. Jul. 2008, 23:29
    Heh. More like fifty? Off the top of my head, Stanko's Leosia; Surman's Free and Equal; Rypdal/Vitous/deJohnette and Descendre; and lately I've been listening to a lot of Gustavson, Trygve Seim and Grbarek's In Praise of Dreams (I know, I'll get flamed for this, but it has grown on me tremendously since I've heard it for the first time). No, that 's just too tough of a call: most of the less obviously "jazzy" ECM is always up there on the heavy rotation list. And let's not even get into the New Series...:P

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    • [Gelöschter Benutzer] schrieb...
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    • 10. Aug. 2008, 7:19
    Egberto Gismonti - Sanfona - ECM 1203


    • gurallo schrieb...
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    • 12. Aug. 2008, 19:07
    Well... It is too much difficult for me to choose only one but It'll be one of this:
    -Meredith Monk "Turtle Dreams"
    -Jan Garbarek "In prise of dreams"
    -Keith Jarrett "Belonging"
    -Dave Holland "Conference of birds"

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  • Hmm, this is a tricky one....
    Somewhere between Ralph Towner's Solstice (probably my favourite 'jazz' album of all time), Eberhard Weber's Pendulum and Belonging by Keith Jarrett's 'European' Quartet.

  • Hi,

    What an excellent group and question.

    I'd have to say that the most important, as opposed to most favorite, ECM record for me was Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians which was loaned to me when I was a musician in high school and forever changed my musical and personal consciousness. ECM put out so many thoughtful and rich musical adventures, what a magical label it was. Arvo Pärt, Reich, Pat Metheny, so many people who were so important to me once upon a time, and to this day. Much gratitude to the wisdom and determination of all who brought these miraculous recordings to life.

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  • Well, there's way too much fantastic music released by this great label, so this question isn't easily answered; but the two albums that I like best are Astrakan Café and Le Pas Du Chat Noir (both by Anouar Brahem). :)

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  • ONE of my favourite albums is I Took Up The Runes. I love the musical themes and Eberhard Weber's bass playing on the album is just beautiful. Russ

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    • [Gelöschter Benutzer] schrieb...
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    • 21. Okt. 2008, 1:51
    I don't know what the best is, but a favorite of mine is Timeless by John Abercrombie because it was the first ECM album i bought. It had a quality to it unlike any of the be bop and hard bop my young mind had associated with "jazz" I didn't know Steve Reichs music for 18 musicians was on ECM originally( i have a box set with that lp in it that was released on nonesuch.) That album to me is indescribable in its beauty.

  • There's no best... There are excellent ones as other people have mentioned. All are great albums. Some old Jan Garbarek albums are really good. Ralph Towner's Old Friends New Friends. Abercrombie and Scofield's Solar. Ofcourse, the masterpiece album Second Sight. Folk Songs is another masterpiece... It's actually not possible to list all for me...

  • Jan Garbarek & The Hilliard Ensemble / Officium
    Jan Gabarek, Zakir Hussain & Trilok Gurtu / Song for Everyone
    John Surman / Private City
    Louis Sclavis / L'imparfait des langues

  • My favorit at the moment is Vassilis Tsabropoulos, Anja Lechner and U. T. Gandhi ... MELOS

    • sartre2 schrieb...
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    • 2. Jan. 2009, 17:35

    Unless you've got a gun ...

    You gotta be kidding. One album! I think, even with a gun to my head, my choice would be arbitrary once I'd narrowed it down to my top 5 - 10.

    Anyway, I don't know about "best" ECM album, but these are the ones that have made my jaw drop:

    At the Blue Note (The Complete Recordings) - Keith Jarrett Trio Does this count as one album, or is this cheating?
    Extended Play - Dave Holland Quintet
    Canto - Charles Lloyd
    Gnu High - Kenny Wheeler
    The Plot - Enrico Rava
    Tabula Rasa - Arvo Pärt

    We are all in this alone - Lily Tomlin
    • Skonrokk schrieb...
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    • 2. Jan. 2009, 18:09

    Re: Your favourite ECM album

    That is indeed a KILLER album .... I would also have to mention Pat Metheny's debut ! Bright Size Life.

    obrien99 said:
    Let's share what do you think it's the best ECM album.

    For a some time now my ultimate winner is

    Personal Mountains

    Sigurdór Guðmundsson bass player from Iceland.
    • woolfi54 schrieb...
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    • 5. Feb. 2009, 16:03
    • rofano schrieb...
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    • 18. Feb. 2009, 5:31
    eberhard weber - fluid rustle
    rainer bruninghaus - Freigeweht
    Pat Metheny - First Circle
    Keith Jarret - Koln concert

    • bluepno schrieb...
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    • 8. Mär. 2009, 1:54
    Colours of Chloe, Eberhard Weber
    Gnu High, Kenny Wheeler
    Solstice, Ralph Towner
    Timeless, Abercrombie, Hammer, Dejohnette

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