ECM now available on streaming services

[rkm]

This is fairly big news, for me at least. The label has a history of really high quality music, but has been next to impossible for me to "try before I buy". So much jazz and modern creative stuff to explore. Exciting as a consumer, but also a little concerning regarding artist income. There's a certain air of resignation in the announcement.


14.11.2017
PRESS RELEASE
ECM AND STREAMING

Over the past week we have begun the process of entering streaming, and from November 17th, the full ECM catalogue will be available to subscribers to services including Apple Music, Amazon, Spotify, Deezer, Tidal and Qobuz. This simultaneous launch across the platforms – facilitated by a new digital distribution agreement with Universal Music – invites listeners to explore the wide range of music recorded by our artists in the course of nearly five decades of independent production.

Although ECM’s preferred mediums remain the CD and LP, the first priority is that the music should be heard. The physical catalogue and the original authorship are the crucial references for us: the complete ECM album with its artistic signature, best possible sound quality, sequence and dramaturgy intact, telling its story from beginning to end.

In recent years, ECM and the musicians have had to face unauthorized streaming of recordings via video sharing websites, plus piracy, bootlegs, and a proliferation of illegal download sites. It was important to make the catalogue accessible within a framework where copyrights are respected.



ECM Press Office
Munich, November 14, 2017

[rkm]

There's 1,581 titles.
This could take a while.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...rds_albums

[Tap]

they don't have this tho


Output by Wolfgang Dauner

[rkm]

I guess the ones highlighted in red on that wiki link are no longer in the catalog?

[Kool Keith Sweat]

I briefly mentioned this in random chat, and how it's been an excellent year for the label with their releases from Roscoe Mitchell, Vijay Iyer, and Craig Taborn (and a great send off release for John Abercrombie). With a whole thread dedicated to it though, here's my 25 favorites from the label (though there's many more great records on it, and many of the musicians on this list have several great records on it).

1. Dave Holland/Derek Bailey - Improvisations for Cello and Guitar
2. Dave Holland/Barre Phillips - Music From Two Basses
3. The Music Improvisation Company - The Music Improvisation Company
4. Peacock/Crispell/Motian - Nothing Ever Was, Anyway
5. Maneri/Phillips/Maneri - Angles of Repose
6. Courvoisier/Feldman/Friedlander - Abaton
7. Bley/Parker/Phillips - Sankt Gerold
8. Arvo Part - Tabula Rasa
9. Meredith Monk - Dolmen Music
10. Kenny Wheeler - Music for Large and Small Ensembles
11. Dave Holland - Jumpin' In
12. Circle - Paris Concert
13. Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians
14. Dave Holland - Conference of the Birds
15. Marion Brown - Afternoon of a Georgia Faun
16. Bennie Maupin - The Jewel in the Lotus
17. Roscoe Mitchell - Bells for the South Side
18. Jan Garbarek - Afric Pepperbird
19. Ban/Maneri - Transylvanian Concert
20. Keith Jarrett - The Koln Concert
21. Vijay Iyer - Far From Over
22. Craig Taborn - Daylight Ghosts
23. Evan Parker's Electroacoustic Ensemble - Memory/Vision
24. Kenny Wheeler - Deer Wan
25. Paul Bley - Open, To Love

[rkm]

This is my small collection, which I'm sure will grow:

ECM 1017 Keith Jarrett- Facing You
ECM 1023 Paul Bley - Open, to Love
ECM 1061 John Abercrombie / Dave Holland / Jack DeJohnette - Gateway
ECM 1064/65 Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert
ECM 1069 Kenny Wheeler - Gnu High
ECM 1073 Pat Metheny - Bright Size Life
ECM 1080 Ralph Towner / John Abercrombie - Sargasso Sea
ECM 1283 Paul Motian Trio - It Should've Happened a Long Time Ago
ECM 1287 Bill Frisell - Rambler
ECM 1350 Bill Frisell Band - Lookout for Hope
ECM 1417 Kenny Wheeler - The Widow in the Window
ECM 1607 Kenny Wheeler / Lee Konitz / Dave Holland / Bill Frisell - Angel Song
ECM 1902 Paul Motian Trio - I Have the Room Above Her
ECM 1972/73 Trio Beyond (Jack DeJohnette, Larry Goldings, John Scofield) - Saudades
ECM 1992 Paul Motian Trio - Time and Time Again

rarum 8005 Bill Frisell - Selected Recordings V
rarum 8014 John Abercrombie - Selected Recordings XIV
rarum 8016 Paul Motian - Selected Recordings XVI

Like a true music nerd, I've created a spreadsheet from that wiki listing of the ECM catalog. I'm going to work my way through, make notes and figure out what I like. It may take a few years.

[rkm]

I just listened to this. A bit more straight ahead than I was expecting, and a bit more Lo-fi than I was expecting.


Paul Bley With Gary Peacock by Paul Ble...ry Peacock

And then I listened to this. Very free, two side long pieces with vocalisations. I think I like Side A, which was less intense and conjures up, well, the afternoon of a Georgia faun.


Afternoon Of A Georgia Faun by Marion Brown

[rkm]

Kill Keith,

I struggled with The Music Improvisation Company. My ears aren't there yet. Just sounded like instruments falling down an endless staircase.

But, I am enjoying Afric Pepperbird. I have bought one other Jan Garbarek CD, but much prefer this earlier drier tone. Quite free sounding, but still melodic.


Afric Pepperbird by Jan Garbarek