A Conversation with Manfred Eicher

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Uploaded by on May 25, 2010

National Book Award-winning jazz critic Gary Giddins talks with Manfred Eicher, prolific jazz producer and founder of the ECM record label.

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  • Anytime you get Manfred Eicher to speak about Editions of Contemporary Music seriously, it is a pearl of wisdom to be treasured. Mr. Eicher has had such impact on music in this lifetime and the next. He is also not someone you hear and see in such a setting. Great work and great insight into THE MAN.

  • I was there, all the Gary's questions was so stupid and his depth of musical knowledge was so superficial...it was waste of my time.

  • To the audience: you have the opportunity to ask Eicher a question and this is what you ask?

  • so, the first example he plays wasn't recorded by manfred? it's NOT the recording he references in the discussion? wow......

  • You have to remember that this interview is more like Manfred being invited over to Gary's house for an awkward home cooked meal during which Gary engages him in conversation while passing the potatoes. It's not well developed or well executed. He doesn't get into the really deep questions, nor does he try to get a good overview of the world of ECM. It almost seems like a therapy session (sans couch). Very disappointing. ECM is my favorite label. I would love a chance to pick Manfred's brain.

  • It's really interesting: the unbrigdeable schism between the creative who knows, feels, experiences art from the inside of it, and the critic looking at it from outside, trying to be witty and knowledgeable, but actually not having a clue. AND very often Gary's too busy fiddeling with his Ipod instead of listening to an answer Eicher gives (52:15).

    A program about sound and quality with such bad sound quality is a sad laugh in itself.

    But: amazing work, Manfred!

  • Thank you for that.

  • Note the Stefano Bollani "Stone in the water" Album cover in the background

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