Manfred Eicher
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- Music for Black Pigeons — Self2023
- Every Sound a Jewel — Self2018
- Sounds and Silence - Travels with Manfred Eicher — Himself2009
- Play Your Own Thing: A Story of Jazz in Europe — Self2006
- Keith Jarrett: The Art of Improvisation — Self2004
- ECM: The Most Beautiful Sound Next To Silence1987
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Manfred Eicher is a German record producer and the founder of the ECM record label and its subsidiaries. He founded ECM Records in 1969 and by the mid-1970s the label was well-known for its atmospheric and sparse settings which made strong use of silence, brilliant recording quality and a sort of jazz minimalism. Some of its records are fairly free while others use folk melodies as the basis for their improvisations. Eicher has often been willing to stretch the boundaries of jazz into World Mus
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Manfred
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Lindau
- Occupation
- composer
- Languages spoken
- German
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- double bass
- Record label
- ECM Records
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- date of birth
- 1943-07-09
- start of work period
- 1969-00-00
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