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Manfred Eicher (born 9 July 1943) is a German record producer and the founder of ECM Records. Life and career. Eicher was born in Lindau, Germany. He studied music at the Academy of Music in Berlin. He started as a double-bass player of classical music and later became a record producer.
The independent record label ECM – Edition of Contemporary Music – was founded by producer Manfred Eicher in 1969, and to date has issued more than 1700 albums spanning many idioms. The special qualities of what began as a small cultural enterprise were soon recognised.
Nov 21, 2010 · At a time when the heads of most record labels barely know how to play a record, let alone make one, Manfred Eicher—owner, founder, and inspiration of ECM Records, which celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2010—has been intimately involved in the making of nearly 1200 of them.
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Eicher studierte an der Hochschule der Künste Berlin Musik und spielte zunächst als Kontrabassist bei den Berliner Philharmonikern klassische Musik. Er trat dann im Free-Jazz-Trio von Joe Viera auf, aber auch mit Bob Degen, Marion Brown und Leo Smith. 1969 gründete er mit Manfred Scheffner und Karl Egger das Schallplattenlabel ECM Records (Edition ...
Manfred Eicher hat für seine künstlerische Produktionsweise zahlreiche Auszeichnungen erhalten. 1986 erhielt er den Ehrenpreis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, 1998 den Musikpreis der Landeshauptstadt München. Die Universität Brighton verlieh ihm im Jahre 2000 ein Ehrendoktorat „in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the development of...
1968: Neun Leben hat die Katze1993: Holozän (nach einer Erzählung von Max Frisch)2002: Kedma2008: Das Fremde in mirVon der Vermittlung des Klanges, NZZ, 28. Dezember 2007, InterviewWie Manfred Eicher den Jazz revolutioniert Die Welt, 28. Oktober 2010Manfred Eicher bei IMDbMit Brown, Smith, Thomas Stöwsand und Fred Braceful ging er 1970 als Creative Improvisation Ensemble auf Tournee, dokumentiert in den Filmen Ohne Nachsicht und See the Music von Theo Kotulla. Vgl...E. C. M. Records: ECM Records.Abgerufen am 11. Mai 2022(englisch).DownBeat Critics Poll 2019 – Lorbeeren für Legenden.Abgerufen am 17. März 2024.Manfred Eicher is the founder of Edition of Contemporary Music (ECM) Records, a label he formed in 1969. At ECM, Eicher became the label's producer, helping to create an eclectic style of music that drew from European chamber and classical music traditions but was played in an improvisatory fashion by jazz musicians from around the world.
Manfred Eicher. In 1969 Manfred Eicher formed the ECM label and by the mid-1970s, the label was well-known for its atmospheric and sparse settings which made strong use of silence, brilliant recording quality and a sort…. Read Full Biography.
Pärt's music came to public attention in the West largely thanks to Manfred Eicher who recorded several of Pärt's compositions for ECM Records starting in 1984.
