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ECM

Edition of Contemporary Music

A work in progress . . .

  As the ECM label is currently enjoying commercial success and producing new releases, these pages are necessarily incomplete. This is an attempt to document what this label has produced since it was started in 1969 by Manfred Eicher.
 The discography includes all known releases on ECM and associated labels.

Contents

ECM There are over seven hundred titles on the main ECM label. Numbers from 1001 to 1900 are currently listed on nine pages. New Series releases are included. The "Works" series is not included.
JAPO The JAPO label released forty-one titles between 1969 and about 1984. Most are out of print. All are listed here.
WATT The WATT label is produced by Carla Bley and Michael Mantler and is distributed by ECM. So far nearly forty titles have been released on the JCOA, WATT, and XtraWATT labels.
SP One title in the ECM SP series has been reissued.
Cover art Some ECM titles have appeared with alternate covers.
Out of print A complete list of out-of-print titles on the ECM and JAPO labels, with personnel listings and recording dates.

Direct Connections

Here are links to the web sites of a few ECM artists:

Sources

Here are a few good places to buy ECM recordings:

  • The ECM Records Web Site handles orders for most titles.
  • Statera in Ljubljana has many titles but I'm not sure whether they do mail order.
  • Birdland in Australia has a good list of ECM titles.
  • Skivhugget also carries many ECM titles.
  • Zweitausendeins Versand
    Ferdinand-Porsche-Str. 37-39,
    D60381 Frankfurt Germany
    Tel.: 01805-23 2001
    Fax: 01805-24 2001
    is rumored to be a good mail-order source for ECM and other jazz labels.

Thanks to:
  • Will Haight
  • Dan Kurdilla
  • Christophe Pical
  • Thomas E. Smith
  • Dajuin Yao
for help in compiling these pages and keeping them up to date.

Contributions to this list are welcome.


Disclaimer: The information on this page represents the opinion of this writer and not that of ECM Records, Universal, Polygram, or BMG.

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