Prior, he had cut with Mingus and Coltrane, accompanied Billie Holiday until her death in 1959, and recorded scores of his own compositions. He slowly reacquainted with his craft by listening to his old recordings.
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Recovery from the episode involved shock therapy, and he forgot entirely how to play music. In 1963, Waldron suffered an overdose-induced mental breakdown. Pianist Mal Waldron made the record in Munich after bouncing around Europe fleeing racial prejudice in America, heavy drugs on the jazz scene, and, perhaps, himself.
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Mal Waldron / Free At Last: Free At Last is the very first album in the ECM catalog, released in November, 1969.
Or, to borrow and modify ECM’s famous tagline, 22 of “The Most Beautiful Sound(s) Next to Silence.” Here, a rough guide to some of the sounds that have drawn us in, 22 recordings exhibiting that “poetry in the music,” Eicher spoke about. From the label’s earliest releases to brand new favorites like the Shinya Fukumori Trio’s For 2 Akis, the ECM catalog upholds Eicher’s standard of quality. Though CDs and vinyl remain “preferred mediums,” both for the label and the crew at AD, access to the sprawling discography sent more than a few of us here down the ECM rabbit hole. Last year, the label’s massive output finally made its way to streaming services. For me the technical side was not as important as the idea of creating an aura or atmosphere, of finding poetry in the music.” “There was something missing in the recordings I was hearing: a certain air in the music, a sense of space. “I wanted to approach the recording in a different way, to record jazz in some kind of chamber music mode, like you might a string quartet, for example,” Eicher told the Irish Examiner in 2017. Marked by an attention to sonic space and a distinct visual aesthetic, ECM has released a wide variety of jazz, fusion, modern classical, early music, and world music. Founded by Manfred Eicher in Germany in 1969, ECM Records (Editions of Contemporary Music) has spent nearly 50 years assembling one of the strongest catalogs in musical history.
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