![ecm records ecm records](https://i2.wp.com/www.birdistheworm.com/wp-content/uploads/ecm-rundown-2018.04.13.png)
Garbarek's work with guitarist Ralph Towner draws on, and is as apparently influenced by, 20th century chamber music as by any overtly jazz-oriented material. On many releases, the jazz and classical sides of ECM are combined: For example, Garbarek's Officium (1994) features him playing saxophone solos over the Hilliard Ensemble singing Gregorian chant, early polyphony and Renaissance works.
ECM RECORDS SERIES
The soundtracks of several works by the filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard are on the ECM New Series label. Keith Jarrett, better known as a jazz musician, recorded several classical works by Bach, Mozart, Shostakovich, and others for the New Series. It has released work by various composers, from the early (such as Thomas Tallis) to the contemporary (such as John Cage, Elliot Carter, and Steve Reich). The ECM New Series was created to document Western classical works.
![ecm records ecm records](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/22z4IJA54fw/maxresdefault.jpg)
Shankar, Jon Hassell, Dave Liebman and Brazilian percussionist Nana Vasconcelos. Other examples of ECM's world music are records by Codona, Tunisian oud musician Anouar Brahem, Indian violinist L. There is a clear link between some ECM recordings and world music, especially the folk recordings by Jan Garbarek and the work of Steve Tibbetts and Stephan Micus. For some years the label specialised in jazz, releasing recordings by pianists Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, Paul Bley, Egberto Gismonti and Art Lande saxophonist Jan Garbarek, vibraphonist Gary Burton drummers Jon Christensen and Paul Motian guitarists Pat Metheny, John Abercrombie, Ralph Towner, Bill Connors and Terje Rypdal bassists Eberhard Weber, Arild Andersen, Charlie Haden and Dave Holland and the Art Ensemble of Chicago.
ECM RECORDS FREE
The first ECM release was Free at Last in 1969 by American pianist Mal Waldron. Its album covers have been profiled in two books thus far, Sleeves of Desire and Windfall Light, both published by Lars Müller. Records, PolyGram Records, BMG, and, since 1999, by Universal Music, the successor of PolyGram. The label was distributed in the USA by Warner Bros. ECM's motto is the Most Beautiful Sound Next to Silence, taken from a 1971 review of ECM releases in CODA, a Canadian jazz magazine. While ECM is best known for jazzmusic, the label has released a wide variety of recordings, and ECM's artists often refuse to acknowledge boundaries between genres. ECM (Edition of Contemporary Music) is a record label founded in Munich, Germany, in 1969 by Manfred Eicher.