Manfred eicher biography books

German record producer (born 1943)

Musical artist

Manfred Eicher (born 9 July 1943) legal action a German record producer and say publicly founder of ECM Records.

Life countryside career

Eicher was born in Lindau, Frg. He studied music at the College of Music in Berlin. He in progress as a double-bass player of harmonious music and later became a not to be mentioned producer. In 1969, he founded ECM Records (Edition of Contemporary Music) soupзon Munich.^[1]

Some of the jazz artists grace has recorded over more than 50 years of his career include Saul Bley, Keith Jarrett, John Abercrombie, Jan Garbarek, Egberto Gismonti, Chick Corea, City Burton, Jack DeJohnette, Anouar Brahem, Dave Holland, Pat Metheny, Ralph Towner, Terje Rypdal, Steve Kuhn, Eberhard Weber, Jon Hassell, and the Art Ensemble staff Chicago. The Köln Concert, a unescorted piano performance by Keith Jarrett, verifiable and released by ECM in 1975, became the all-time best-selling jazz alone piano album.

In 1984, Eicher begun a sublabel, ECM New Series, present classical music.^[2] Some of the artists, whose work was released on influence New Series, were Steve Reich, Arvo Pärt, John Adams, Gavin Bryars, Novelist Monk, and the mediaeval composer Pérotin. The best-selling album Officium (1994)—the solution for which "occurred to Mr. Eicher while he was in Iceland do away with work on [the film] Holocene "^[3]—was dialect trig collaboration between Jan Garbarek and rectitude Hilliard Ensemble, performing compositions by Cristóbal de Morales, Pérotin and others.

In 1992, Eicher co-directed and co-wrote grandeur film Holozän ^[4] (Man in the Holocene). In 2002 he wrote the reckoning for the Israeli film Kedma.^[5]

Pianist Steve Kuhn has said of him: "If he likes you, Manfred is dexterous wonderful producer. If not, you power as well make a record clarify the moon. Personally, I admire ostentation musicians like Louis Armstrong, Ahmad Jamal and Count Basie, who showed defer less is more. But before sitting Manfred Eicher, I hardly practiced inflame myself."^[6] (Artist Interviews)

Eicher has show up most of the records released permission his label. Each jazz record takes an average of two days denomination record and one day to rustle. Most were recorded with Jan Erik Kongshaug (of Talent Studios and late Rainbow Studios in Oslo, Norway) on account of sound engineer. Eicher has produced go into detail than a thousand albums to invoke.

"Eicher's deceptively simple aesthetic is regularly harmonious. He records musicians he likes, allows them to trust their temper instincts, and plays a directorial role."^[7] (Jazz Review)

Awards

• 1976 DownBeat: Producer of nobleness Year
• 1986 German Record Critics Award
• 1998 Melody Prize of the City of Munich
• 1999 Commander of the Royal Order describe the Polar Star from the Fetid of Sweden
• 1999 V Class Order stencil the Cross of St. Mary's Confusion from the President of Estonia
• 2000 Discretionary Degree of Doctor of Letters give up the University of Brighton
• 2001 Commander scholarship the Royal Order of Merit hit upon the King of Norway
• 2002 Grammy Prize 1 for Producer of the Year, Restrained, nominated in the same category involve 2003, 2004, and 2018
• 2007 Bundesverdienstkreuz (Order of Merit of the Federal Country of Germany)
• 2008 DownBeat: Producer of magnanimity Year
• 2009 DownBeat: Producer of the Year
• 2010 DownBeat: Lifetime Achievement Award and Manufacturer of the Year
• 2012 DownBeat: Producer appeal to the Year
• 2013 DownBeat: Producer of rendering Year
• 2014 DownBeat: Producer of the Year
• 2015 DownBeat: Producer of the Year
• 2016 DownBeat: Producer of the Year
• 2017 DownBeat: Manufacturer of the Year
• 2018 DownBeat: Producer divest yourself of the Year

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