Manfred Eicher is voted Producer of the Year and ECM Records is Label of the Year 2008 in the DownBeat Critics Poll: this double-win is announced in the August issue of the US jazz magazine, which ...

ECM has been releasing records since the late 1960s. The label’s best-known artists are probably Keith Jarrett and Arvo Pärt. Founded and run by Manfred Eicher, ECM (Editions of Contemporary Music), ...

It is... time for November birthday salutes! Pianists Hampton Hawes, Ellis Marsalis, Paul Bley, Lyle Mays, Marcin Wasilewski; flutist Hubert Laws; singer Ernestine ...

The "homage" of the title is specific: it is to Manfred Eicher – who produced the album – and to ECM. The title track was originally written for an 80 th birthday celebration of Eicher at the ...

The story of Manfred Eicher’s label could, in theory, have happened without musicians from these islands, but it would have been a different story. Downes says of Vermillion, the current release: ...

Record label manager and producer Manfred Eicher established the record label ECM in 1969. He has been a key promoter of European - and Norwegian - jazz.