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The best of the ECM label

There is so much really good and well recorded music on the ECM label, but a lot is downright strange. Many of the artists are not well known and the music, new compositions, both the jazz and new label ECM, or classical. It is very hard to gauge what is worth a purchase, because of this.

I do find it interesting, that you can listen to the classical and more avant garde classical material and not find it easy to distinguish the two. Any choice is going to be highly personal, but some suggestions would be helpful.

To start, my personal favourite is
Khmer by Nils Petter Molvaer
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czarivey
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ECM label had been for quite a lot. I like it and very often blindly pick up any record with ECM label on it and m'sure I'll simply enjoy that. It's a label that accommodates the best artists and known not only for extraordinary jazz, but neo-classical and neo-world music.
Pat Metheny, Miroslav Vitous, Terje Ripdal, Nana Vasconcielos, Meridith Monk, Chick Corea, Dave Holland, Charlie Haden and many more to list...
czarivey
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None mentioned Nils Petter Molvaer around ECM since 1997

The members of his band are also unique and creative musicians such as Eivind Aarset.

Eivind Aarset often in my mind correlates to another similar yet also unique guitarist that had his ECM years which is Bill Frisell. Both of them aren't major ECM artists unlike Gismonti or Jarrett, but definitely worth the elite label of world's most creative musicians.

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