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), ...

A trip to München (Munich) is a bit like a pilgrimage for fans of Germany's ECM label, especially right now, with the city's Haus der Kunst hosting a three-month exhibition, ECM: A Cultural Archeology ...

Officially, SFJazz’s ECM Week runs from Feb. 23-26, with eight exceptionally divergent ensembles packed into four double-bill concerts. Prolific jazz icon Ron Carter marks rare return to SF Photos: ...

One of the defining sound-worlds of the past half-century of recorded music is the distinguished repertory of ECM Records, which was founded by the Munich musician and producer Manfred Eicher, in 1969 ...

I’m not a strong leader in the sense that I want the other musicians to play an ideal that I’ve carved out, but I’m rather open for their input. I like to let everyone find their own role within the ...

Huge news for fans of Keith Jarrett, Steve Reich, Pat Metheny, Arvo Pärt, John Abercrombie, Vijay Iyer, and countless other seminal jazz, contemporary classical, and New Age artists and composers: The ...

Garbarek helped the ECM label find its emerging voice 40 years ago. A new box set of early albums captures the saxophonist's forming sound —... How Jan Garbarek Came To Epitomize Nordic Jazz ...

The techniques he developed with Manfred Eicher, the founder of the ECM label, had a major influence on the recordings of Pat Metheny, Keith Jarrett and many others. By Giovanni Russonello Jan Erik ...

At one point during the final stretch of this year's Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tenn., you could have pried yourself away from a distortion-jacked Sun of Goldfinger show to join a clutch of fans ...

The Big Ears Festival is turning 10 years old in March — but it’s using the opportunity to celebrate a more senior institution. The annual experimental-music festival announced on Monday that it will ...

Officially, SFJazz’s ECM Week runs from Feb. 23-26, with eight exceptionally divergent ensembles packed into four double-bill concerts. But given the German record label’s vast, disparate and ...