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| ECM jazz **in THIS economy**????
Thoughts/favs/recs/burps? Not a strand of jazz I've explored particularly deeply or that I care for in its entirety, *but* the top 10% or so has me asking all sorts of questions. The genre's dual capacity for utter tedium and breathlessly exotic atmospheres is I guess an intrigue and and of itself. List is my top 5 at the time of posting. | | 1 |  | Keith Jarrett
The Survivor's Suite
GOAT
There are two ECMs for me, namely:
1) jazz's incense-compatible correlate to New Age, full of suspenseful intervals, delicate arrangements and rich mystique, and
2) a deadeningly consonant soundtrack to living room tedium that is ig synonymous with the boring side of Scandi jazz.
Don't think I could find another record that spotlights everything attractive about the former camp (even if it comes with moments of overlap of ye olde experimental + free jazz) and entirely shirks the latter | | 2 |  | Marilyn Mazur
All the Birds: Reflecting / Adventurous
Mainly here for disc 1, but jfc the keepers there are impeccable | | 3 |  | Ralph Towner
Solstice
Now *this* is good jazz guitar. Gorgeous 12-string mastery, some amazing moments here. Not an amplifier in sight and all the better for it | | 4 |  | Jan Garbarek - Bobo Stenson Quartet
Witchi-Tai-To
Unfortunate sax tone, otherwise glorious record | | 5 |  | Kenny Wheeler
Gnu High
New discovery, incredibly classy performances from Wheeler (trumpet) and Keith Jarrett here, will be returning soon and often | |
JohnnyoftheWell
07.09.24 | more like mE CuM amirite hurr, uh.
recs, discourse etc. plz | pizzamachine
07.09.24 | 🙌🏻 | rabidfish
07.09.24 | Oh hell yeah
marilyn Mazur, she's the best.
Check Mathew Halsall, he's got a label, too.
Trio M/E/D is cool. | JohnnyoftheWell
07.09.24 | She is blessed and fab, but none of the other albums I've heard from her are a patch on the Birds highlights. Where the gooduns at? Will peep the other boi!! | Hyperion1001
07.09.24 | portico quartet - isla | rabidfish
07.09.24 | Oh and dollar brand. African marketplace is nice! | Jasdevi087
07.09.24 | yeah that Ralph Towner record is nuts | bloc
07.09.24 | ECM style jazz is just the best kind of jazz imo
Check Manu Katche - Neighbourhood, it's one of my all time favs | Butkuiss
07.09.24 | Chick Corea’s 1972 Return to Forever album has a really nice and chill fusion of Latin jazz and ECM style. For a more oddball modern pick, Pigments by Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn really tickled my pickle, though it is more on the IKEA showroom side of things. | Manatea
07.09.24 | I second Butkuiss on that first RTF album. | rabidfish
07.09.24 | Second Manu katche and RTF. Romantic warrior is so good. Not really ECM tho. | Butkuiss
07.09.24 | The 1972 Chick Corea Return to Forever album (before the band was inaugurated as a separate project) is at the very least, very ECM-style influenced. It’s a completely different sound to what RTF proper became when they added a guitarist and went full fusion. It was also put out by ECM-the-label, so I’d argue it fits either way. | cylinder
07.09.24 | Tara Clerkin Trio - On the Turning Ground | rabidfish
07.09.24 | I was talking about romantic warrior (their best album) lol | Butkuiss
07.09.24 | My apologies rabidfish — I misinterpreted. Accept this as a very public self crit-cum-flagellation. | bludngorevidal
07.09.24 | Shai Maestro - Human
^ is prob my fave 2020s ECM. | AnimalsAsSummit
07.10.24 | Most underrated genre. This label was and is peak. Gnu High is one of my all time favorite albums. | wham49
09.25.24 | anyone for the MAtheny releases |
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