POLL NOMINATIONS - The ECM albums you MOST want "in print" on CD in your country

[bluenoter]

The nominations in this thread were entered in a poll,
which is now closed.

Here's a link to the thread:

Poll: What ECM albums do you MOST want "in print" on CD in your country?

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Originally Posted by Steve Lake

A poll: why not? All forum readers are invited to nominate the five ECM albums they would most like to see reissued in their territory. I'll forward the results inside the ECM office.

(That's from Steve's answer to my question in the Ask ECM thread.)

Originally Posted by Steve Lake

the original question could have been: "What haven't you got - ECM-wise - in your country which you would like to have??"

(That's from a post of Steve's in this thread.)


Albums nominated in this thread will be entered into a poll.

1. It doesn't matter whether an album has ever been issued on CD, as long as it's not "in print" on CD in your country.

2. New: In this thread, please nominate as many albums as you want!

3. There's no need for an album to be nominated more than once. I'm just sayin'.


Happy nominating!


POLL NOMINATIONS from Posts # 1 - 43

(The poll also includes albums nominated in posts # 44 - 61.)

[bluenoter]

Originally Posted by David Gitin

Steve, my top two:

Marion Brown AFTERNOON OF A GEORGIA FAUN
Kenny Wheeler AROUND 6

Originally Posted by Bill Barton

I second these two nominations, David! Especially the Brown.

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[bluenoter]

Originally Posted by Rob C

Vesala: Lumi

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[bluenoter]

Originally Posted by lazarus

a couple of suggestions for reissues:

The duoalbum with Derek Bailey and Dave Holland (can´t remember the title but I have it on a casette somewhere and it´s one of the best Bailey recordings I have heard).
Also Dave Liebman´s Lookout Farm and Music Improvisation Company (I have this both on vinyl and a japanese cd but it would be nice if more people will get the chance to hear this fine album).

Originally Posted by Nim Chimpsky

Yes, these would make a fitting tribute to Bailey from ECM.


ECM 1013
Improvisations for Cello and Guitar
David Holland: Cello
Derek Bailey: Guitar

Recorded live at the Little Theatre Club, London, January 1971.
Improvised Piece III 20:04
Improvised Piece IV 8:16
Improvised Piece V 10:08


ECM 1005
The Music Improvisation Company
Derek Bailey: Electric Guitar
Evan Parker: Soprano Saxophone
Hugh Davies: Live Electronics
Jamie Muir: Percussion
Christine Jeffrey: Voice

Recorded on August 25, 26, 27, 1970 at the Merstham Studios, London.
Third Stream Boogaloo 2:36
Dragon Path 10:23
Packaged Eel 8:42
Untitled No. I 7:05
Untitled No. II 7:32
Tuck 3:04
Wolfgang von Gangbang 7:05

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[Bill Barton]

1. Marion Brown - Afternoon of a Georgia Faun
2. Marion Brown - Afternoon of a Georgia Faun
3. Marion Brown - Afternoon of a Georgia Faun
4. Marion Brown - Afternoon of a Georgia Faun
5. Marion Brown - Afternoon of a Georgia Faun

Let's see, did I mention Marion Brown?

[bluenoter]

Originally Posted by Bill Barton

1. Marion Brown - Afternoon of a Georgia Faun
2. Marion Brown - Afternoon of a Georgia Faun
3. Marion Brown - Afternoon of a Georgia Faun
4. Marion Brown - Afternoon of a Georgia Faun
5. Marion Brown - Afternoon of a Georgia Faun

Let's see, did I mention Marion Brown?

Marion who? Afternoon of a what?

Okay, I'll try to remember to include that one in the poll. Debussy; got it.

[Nim Chimpsky]

Just to add that if you are unsure of what you can chose from then you can go here.

[bluenoter]

Thank you, Nim!

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Posters who have made ECM album requests in other threads are encouraged to also nominate those albums in this thread (especially if the albums haven't been nominated here yet).

For this purpose,

Originally Posted by bluenoter

It doesn't matter whether an album has ever been issued on CD, as long as it's not "in print" on CD in your country.

[lpgeffen]

Originally Posted by Nim Chimpsky

Just to add that if you are unsure of what you can chose from then you can go here.

or here: for just the out of print releases.

Like ECM 1053: Michael Naura, Vanessa
and ECM 1106: Art Lande and Rubisa Patrol, Desert Marauders
and ECM 1146: Double Image, Dawn
and ECM 1164: Abercrombie Quartet

[bluenoter]

Originally Posted by lpgeffen

or here: for just the out of print releases.

Like ECM 1053: Michael Naura, Vanessa
and ECM 1106: Art Lande and Rubisa Patrol, Desert Marauders
and ECM 1146: Double Image, Dawn
and ECM 1164: Abercrombie Quartet

Paul--

Thanks. I've got to ask: You're nominating all four of those albums as your top priorities, not just giving examples of out-of-print albums, right?

[Ron Thorne]

I'll probably add a few more later, but here's a starting point. I enjoyed all of these immensely while working at KJZZ-FM in the 70's & 80's.

ECM 1012 - Underwear w/ Bobo Stenson, Arild Andersen & Jon Christensen (1971)
ECM 1039 - Lookout Farm w/ David Liebman et al (1973)
ECM 1040 - Seven Songs for Quartet and Chamber Orchestra w/ Gary Burton Quartet & members of the NDR Symphony Orchestra (1973)
ECM 1054 - Eon w/ Richie Bierach, Frank Tusa & Jeff Williams (1974)
ECM 1104 - Hubris w/ Richard Bierach (solo - 1977)
ECM 1106 - Desert Mauraders - Art Lande & Rubisa Patrol (1977)

[lpgeffen]

Originally Posted by bluenoter

Paul--

Thanks. I've got to ask: You're nominating all four of those albums as your top priorities, not just giving examples of out-of-print albums, right?

Correct.

[rene]

Ralph Towner/John Abercrombie - 'Five Years Later' (ECM 1207)

Mike Nock - 'Ondas' (ECM 1220)

Bengt Berger - 'Bitter Funeral Beer' (ECM 1179)


and my top priority:

AZIMUTH - 'Azimuth'/Touchstone/Depart' (3-Cd Box set)

[Gary Sisco]

I second Bengt Berger - 'Bitter Funeral Beer' (ECM 1179)

Keith Jarrett -- Standards In Norway (my favorite)

[Nitya]

Here's my list:

ECM 1059
Arild Andersen Quartet, Clouds in my Head

* Arild Andersen: Bass
* Jon Balke: Piano
* Knut Riisnaes: Tenor, Soprano Saxes, Flute
* Pål Thowsen: Drums

ECM 1082
Arild Andersen Quartet, Shimri

* Arild Andersen: Bass
* Juhani Aaltonen: Tenor and Soprano Saxophones, Flutes, Percussion
* Lars Jansson: Piano
* Pål Thowsen: Drums/Percussion

ECM 1099
Azimuth

* John Taylor: Piano
* Norma Winstone: Voice
* Kenny Wheeler: Trumpet, Fluegelhorn

ECM 1106
Art Lande and Rubisa Patrol, Desert Marauders

* Art Lande: Piano
* Mark Isham: Trumpet, Fluegelhorn
* Bill Douglass: Bass, Flute
* Kurt Wortmann: Drums

ECM 1127
Arild Andersen Quartet, Green Shading Into Blue

* Arild Andersen: Bass
* Juhani Aaltonen: Tenor and Soprano Saxophones, Flutes
* Lars Jansson: Piano, Moog-Synthesizer, String Ensemble
* Pal Thowsen: Drums, Percussion

ECM 1130
Azimuth, The Touchstone

* John Taylor: Piano, Organ
* Norma Winstone: Voice
* Kenny Wheeler: Trumpet, Fluegelhorn

ECM 1163
Azimuth with Ralph Towner, Départ

* John Taylor: Piano, Organ
* Norma Winstone: Voice
* Kenny Wheeler: Fluegelhorn, Trumpet
* Ralph Towner: 12 String and Classical Guitar

ECM 1188
Arild Andersen, Lifelines


* Arild Andersen: Bass
* Steve Dobrogosz: Piano
* Kenny Wheeler: Fluegelhorn, Cornet
* Paul Motian: Drums

The one album that stands out here for me is "Green Shading into Blue" by Arild Andersen Quartet. Not a single track you would skip. Also the songs are in perfect order flowing one into another. I ripped it from vinyl years ago and copied and reduced the front and back covers to make a home made cd and it sounds pretty good. But I would gladly buy a reissue.

[Gary Sisco]

"My area" is irrelevant, today. There's not a music store within an hour's drive in any direction I'd bother to even look in. So my vote is just to keep them "in print" so they can be had legit by people who want them.

[bluenoter]

Originally Posted by Gary Sisco

"My area" is irrelevant, today. There's not a music store within an hour's drive in any direction I'd bother to even look in. So my vote is just to keep them "in print" so they can be had legit by people who want them.

Gary, "your area"--your market--consists of online stores too. For the purpose of this thread, it's the United States. For example, some of the albums are "in print" if you want to order them from Amazon's site for Japan (good luck with reading it, and enjoy paying the shipping cost).

In fact, that's what the Q&A between Steve Lake and me that prompted this thread was about. Steve has now posted about areas/territories/markets in this thread too--

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[me wag]

I've heard Contrasts and I think it's one of Rivers' best, if not THE best I've heard by him.

lineup is:

Sam Rivers: Soprano and Tenor Saxophones, Flute
George Lewis: Trombone
Dave Holland: Bass
Thurman Barker: Drums, Marimba
Recorded December 1979 at Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg.
Produced by Manfred Eicher.

I'll second or third or fourth that Marion Brown, too.

[Felix]

1. Sam Rivers: Contrasts
2. Jack DeJohnette's Directions: New Rags
3. Bobo Stenson: Underwear
4. The Music Improvisation Company
5. Paul Bley: Ballads

oh, and a fair amount of the old JAPO catalogue, as well.

[Nitya]

Hey Rita - let's just let folks name their faves until a big list is complied then count the votes for the number one (or the top five or ten) and pass on to Steve.

[bluenoter]

Originally Posted by Nitya

Hey Rita - let's just let folks name their faves until a big list is complied then count the votes for the number one (or the top five or ten) and pass on to Steve.

Nitya--

Thanks. After a lot of thought, I concluded that the best way to give Steve Lake the input that he asked for would be to gather a list of albums, then put them into a poll. A poll will automatically "count the votes"--and automatically show which posters voted for the "winning" albums (and all the other albums), so we can give Steve a geographical breakdown.

As the new thread title indicates, each poster is now cordially invited to list an unlimited number of albums in this thread.

[Nim Chimpsky]

Rita, first of all, thanks for setting up this thread and volunteering to collate the results.

I'd like to suggest that before going any further you establish with Steve what he means by territories and then post a simple list so that people can chose from that list before they nominate their 5 albums.

My guess is that, like Gary said, territories make much less of a difference than they used to. People will probably nominate similar things and North America is much better represented than any other territory anyway; but if territories is what Steve wants ...

[Gary Sisco]

I live in nothern Vermont and my record buying gets done in NYC, Jersey City, Sweden, Seattle, and wherever in the world favorite labels' or artists' or emusic's or Amazon's websites are located if anywhere.

[Steve Lake]

[QUOTE=Nim Chimpsky;693414]Rita, first of all, thanks for setting up this thread and volunteering to collate the results.

I'd like to suggest that before going any further you establish with Steve what he means by territories and then post a simple list so that people can chose from that list before they nominate their 5 albums.

QUOTE]

Hi, am just leaving town for a week (but not to escape this thread!). Perhaps my formulation was too complex in the first place. Most of the distributors around the world buy their ECM albums as imports from ECM Export in Munich - these are the albums available from us at www.ecmrecords.com

The "licensed territiories", however, - including the USA, Japan and France have considerably less ECM titles available, via Universal. And the titles available are different in each territory.Still with me? The picture is further complicated by the fact that a handful of titles not carried by Universal are carried (as imports) by Forced Exposure in the US.

Since a bunch of titles are not available anywhere (either out of print or never on CD at all) and since I don't have the geographical/distributional whereabouts of all the albums in my head - the original question could have been: "What haven't you got - ECM-wise - in your country which you would like to have??"

I wish you all a peaceful resolution of the nominating process and look forward to reading what you come up with...

best
Steve

[phlppo]

Stanley Cowell Trio, Illusion Suite, ECM 1026
Enrico Rava Quartet, Ah, ECM 1166
Richie Beirach, Elm, ECM 1142
Richie Beirach, Hubris, ECM 1104
Dave Holland Quintet, Seeds of Time, ECM 1292
(currently unavailable on ECM website)

[walto]

FWIW, I'd generally like to see Art Lande disks more easily accessible. I also wouldn't like to see any of the ECM Hilliard Ensemble or Kashkashian discs disappear....

Also, my Georgia Faun LP is pretty old and scratchy.

[bluenoter]

First, a huge thanks to Steve Lake--for all of his interactions with us on JC.

Nim--

Thanks for your thanks! Steve has now explained what he meant by "territories." For the purpose of this thread, "your territory" = "your country."

[Pete C]

I'll second the Marion Brown & Sam Rivers nominations.

[Pete C]

By the way Rita, nice font, but could you make it a little smaller and bolder?

[Bill Barton]

If we're takling a font poll I like it, Rita. It has character.