Dominic will perform at ECM Festival Freiburg 2024
2024.5.9 ECM Festival フライブルクに出演決定。 Dominic will perform at ECM Festival Freiburg 9. May 2024.
ドミニクの『Vagabond Tour』の予定が来年3月末から5月にかけて断続的に続々とヨーロッパで決定しています。 その中の一つ、5月9日にドイツのMerzhausen Forumで行われるドミニクのライブは、「ECM FESTIVAL Freiburg 2024」という 、5月8日から11日まで行われるイベントの一つとして行われるようです。 European dates for Dominic’s ‘Vagabond Tour’ have been confirmed intermittently from the end of March to May next year. One of them, Dominic’s gig at Forum Merzhausen in Germany on 9 May, is part of the ECM FESTIVAL Freiburg 2024, which takes place from 8 to 11 May.
このイベントは、8日の「Keith Jarrett Trio • Live in Japan 1996」のDVDの上映から始まり、9日のオープニングはイスラエル出身のピアニスト、ニタイ・ハーシュコヴィッツのライブ、そして9日にドミニクのライブがあります。 10日にはドイツ出身の女性チェリスト、アニャ・レヒナーのカルテット、11日はウィーンを拠点に活動するハンガリーの女性ギタリスト、ジョフィア・ボロスとポーランド系ノルウェー人のアルト・サックス奏者マチェイ・オバラのカルテットのライブが予定されています。
『Free At Last』は新レーベルECMの最初のタイトルで、アメリカのマル・ウォルドロンの音楽を収録したアルバムであった。その後、キース・ジャレット、ヤン・ガルバレク、チック・コリア、ポール・ブレイ、エグベルト・ジスモンティ、パット・メセニーなどの重要な録音が続き、ECMの名声を確立した。メレディス・モンクやスティーヴ・ライヒなどの名前も、70年代末から定期的にプログラムに登場している。
The event starts with a screening of the Keith Jarrett Trio – Live in Japan 1996 DVD on the 8th, with Israeli pianist Nitai Hershkovitz opening the daytime show on the 9th, followed by Dominic’s live performance on the evening of the 9th. The quartet of German-born female cellist Anja Lechner will perform on the 10th, while the quartet of Vienna-based Hungarian female guitarist Jofia Boros and Polish-Norwegian alto saxophonist Maciej Obara will perform on the 11th.
Tickets for this event are already on sale and can be purchased via the link below. The website also provides details of the event and a brief overview of the ECM label in an easy to understand manner. The site is in German, so a translation is provided below. As noted there, the ECM label is a jazz label, but a very flexible one, not limited to any one genre. Dominic is not a musician who has made a career as a jazz guitarist, but rather someone who has played non-jazz POP and rock. However, the move to ECM was triggered by an approach to Dominic from Manfred Eicher, founder and producer of the ECM label, in August 2015, which shows the flexibility of the label’s policy.
Dominic himself does not intend to play jazz, and in fact his three albums for ECM so far have an impression that is very different from the image of normal jazz music. But there is no doubt that ECM’s approach of allowing this and using the musicians’ characteristics has greatly expanded the world and possibilities of Dominic Miller’s music. As a fan of Dominic’s music, I cannot thank ECM founder Manfred Eicher enough. It’s going to be a great festival.
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The independent label ECM -Edition of Contemporary Music- was founded in 1969 by producer Manfred Eicher and has since released more than 1700 albums. The special claim of the cultural enterprise attracted attention early on. In 1972, Der Spiegel first reported on the label of a 29-year-old Munich “maverick”, which was attracting increasing interest from prominent US musicians: Because, according to the news magazine, the “currently best jazz recordings” appeared there, “exemplary in sound, presence and pressing”. The company had been founded two and a half years earlier. Born in Lindau, Manfred Eicher had studied double bass in Berlin. After discovering his love for musicians such as Bill Evans, Paul Bley, Miles Davis and his bassist Paul Chambers at an early age, he also became intensively involved with jazz. As a production assistant at Deutsche Grammophon, he had learnt about the highest standards in recording classical music. He now began to transfer the precision and concentration that was customary there to improvised music.
“Free at Last” was, quite programmatically, the first title of the new label, an album with music by the American Mal Waldron. Significant recordings by Keith Jarrett, Jan Garbarek, Chick Corea, Paul Bley, Egberto Gismonti, Pat Metheny and others followed and established ECM’s reputation. Names such as Meredith Monk and Steve Reich have also appeared regularly in the programme since the end of the seventies.
Manfred Eicher’s encounter with the music of Arvo Pärt was groundbreaking for the further development of the label. “Tabula Rasa”, an epoch-making recording that made the composer famous worldwide, laid the foundation for the New Series in 1984 – and for a creative partnership that has lasted for decades. Giya Kancheli, Valentin Silvestrov and Tigran Mansurian were also introduced to a wide audience in the West through releases on ECM; György Kurtág and Heinz Holliger have been releasing significant parts of their oeuvre on the Munich label for years. Performers such as the Hilliard Ensemble, Kim Kashkashian, Gidon Kremer, Anja Lechner, the Danish String Quartet, Thomas Zehetmair and András Schiff present exemplary interpretations of the classics and provide exciting new repertoire discoveries. Cross-genre and cross-cultural projects form a catalogue focus of both series – from the recordings of the “Codona” trio around 1980 to “Officium”, the meeting between Jan Garbarek and the Hilliards (1993), to François Couturier’s Tarkovsky Quartet.
The form and consistency of composed music have found their way into improvisation; on the other hand, a moment of risk, spontaneity and improvisational freedom can always be felt in the inspired interpretations of composed works. Paul Griffiths, the British music writer, sums this up: “ECM has become a genre in its own right, a genre with blurred edges but a clearly defined centre. Located in a place where music is valued regardless of its origin. In a time in which no definitive definitions apply, in which even a recording – seemingly the conclusion of the creative process – proves its worth by raising a question, or more than one.”
From the very beginning, ECM has orientated itself on the model of author care used by literary publishers. “Our work is based on the principle of duration,” Manfred Eicher once said in an interview. Many of the musicians who made their first recordings with ECM in their mid-twenties in the early seventies are still associated with the label today. “It is also important that relationships develop between the label’s artists, as this benefits their work,” says Eicher. As a recording producer, he sees himself as a partner to the artists, playing a leading role in all work processes from the selection of recording locations to the musical shaping of the album and the cover design. Speaking of covers: the ECM record sleeves, much admired and much copied, have made design history. Swiss publisher Lars Müller Verlag has dedicated two opulent volumes to the label’s cover design.
ECM is often identified with a clear and overtone-rich recording sound. Nevertheless, there is no such thing as a generalised “ECM sound”. The recording is geared to the person recording, not the other way round. “Of course, we also take every conceivable technical care,” says Manfred Eicher. “But the decisive factor is the music itself and the aesthetic concept associated with it. And this results in the characteristics of the sound.”
■ ECM FESTIVAL Freiburg 2024 Program
08.05(Night):Cinema – Keith Jarrett Trio/Live in Japan 1996 (DVD Film)
09.05(Daytime):Nitai Hershkovits(Piano Solo • Opening Concert )
09.05(Night):Dominic Miller Quartett
10.05(Night):A Tribute to Anja Lechner(Cello)(Anja Lechner Quartett)