ECM: three simple letters that convey much. Indeed, so strong is founder and main producer Manfred Eicher's dialectic of sound and image that unified, holistic reactions/representations are ...

Manfred Eicher soon expanded to document many distinctive worldly soloists and some unusually unique aggregates, capturing and personifying a reflective, nearly Nordic music style (often described as ...

ECM Records, the jazz and classical music label founded by German jazz great Manfred Eicher in 1969, has entered a long-term digital-distribution deal with edelNet, a digital-music service provider… ...

Before I talk about individual musical works, let me share a few more of my personal memories.I first learned that the ...

Danilo Perez is on a mission, backed emphatically by Panama’s Minister of Tourism, master sonero Ruben Blades, during an intimate press breakfast. According to Perez, the Panama Jazz Festival is “a ...

On the surface, it’s easy to lump Mette Henriette with that other Norwegian saxophone player signed to the ECM label, Jan Garbarek. Classified as “jazz” by virtue of the saxophone’s use, Garbarek and ...

The European jazz label ECM is treating fans to a sumptuous feast of deluxe edition box sets containing some of its most significant music from the 1970s and ’80s. Included are extensive liner notes, ...

Chilly temperatures and threatening skies Saturday night prevented the sixth annual Tanglewood Jazz Festival from outdrawing its elder and more famous rival in Newport, R.I., for the second year in a ...