Horizons Touched: The Music of ECM
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Editor: Steve LakeEditor: Paul Griffiths
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-05-01
ISBN: 1862078807
Number of pages: 448
Publisher: Granta UK
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Book Review: Sumptuous coffee table book for the soundtrack of my adult life
Summary: 5 Stars
Like Geoff Dyer, who writes a chapter for this book, I discovered ECM records in the year before going up to Oxford. Unlike Geoff, I didn't desert ECM for punk music. So in our third year at Corpus, when we happened to get adjacent rooms, I must have been pumping Keith Jarrett and Pat Metheny through the wall while Geoff replied with the Clash and Sex Pistols.
But Geoff turns a much better phrase than I could ever hope to, so it's he who is contributing to this excellent volume.
This book also answers a question that has been bugging me for decades: whatever happened to Steve Lake? Steve's reviews for Melody Maker in the 1970s practically defined the music I listened to at the time and, as it happens, ever since. I'd even occasionally googled his name to try to find out who he has been writing for since leaving Melody Maker in 1978. It turns out that he's been an ECM producer since that year. He liked the music so much he joined the company.
This volume is full of rare pictures you may not have seen before. Sadly it doesn't provide a full explanation of what must have been a cataclysmic event in ECM's history: the departure of Pat Metheny. If Metheny had stayed, the finances and perhaps the entire direction of the company might have been different. But instead ECM is defined by the other two jazz giants -- Keith Jarrett and Jan Garbarek -- and there is plenty on both of them here.
Although ECM CDs tend to be available forever, their books quickly go out of print. Assume that this volume will also be a limited edition. You know what to do!
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