Any other vinyl as quiet as ECM?

Concord is very much the equal of ECM and maybe is a tad better. Very full and rich but not syrupy. Detailed but not edgy. All my Concords sound great--Joe Pass, Herb Ellis and Barney Kessel, The L.A. Four, Woody Herman, Ross Tomkins All-Stars, etc.

Most of my Verve and Pablo pressings are of high quality. On the used market it may be a different story because so much of the jazz on these labels was so good that the records were played a lot.

Just to say that after 15 years ECM is finally back into vinyl! Enrico Rava and Jarrett/Peacock/DeJohnette are released and available for order now plus some will be re-released (next is my favourite Arvo Pärt). Great news and I hope this continues, especially with regard to the releases that have not been released on vinyl during those 15 years. Thought of sharing the joy, even though does not exactly follow the request.

ECM back into vinyl, wow!
TVAD: if you have not heard Metheny on ECM German Imported pressings... THESE are the one's to get.

Contemporaneous with '80s ECM, some of the best avant garde jazz both sonically and artistically was on Soul Note, Pablo & Black Saint. Guys like Jimmy Guiffre, David Murray, Paul Bley, Art Farmer, Billy Bang, Anthony Braxton, Leroy Jenkins. Not very expensive at a good used record store.

02-07-09: Xiekitchen
ECM back into vinyl, wow!
TVAD: if you have not heard Metheny on ECM German Imported pressings... THESE are the one's to get.

I have most of the Metheny ECMs and the sonics are excellent. I discovered Metheny via Gary Burton, as I'd been a Burton fan since 1968 and really took note when Burton moved from Atlantic to ECM, and then when Metheny joined Burton's quartet. Burton's ECM albums also sound great, as do the ones from guitarists John Abercrombie and Ralph Towner.