SFJAZZ celebrates a half-century of the iconic label, with nights in Miner Auditorium and the Joe Henderson Lab featuring ECM’s greatest artists. Named with initials standing for “Edition of Contemporary Music,” founder Manfred Eicher’s Munich-based imprint has represented the leading edge of innovation for five decades and over 1600 individual releases, blurring lines between genres and championing both established masters and young visionaries.
The hugely influential, GRAMMY-winning drummer and composer performs material from his highly regarded ECM albums of the 1990s, re-interpretations of timeless standards, and music from his new quartet release. Perhaps best known for his career with the landmark fusion groups Weather Report and Steps Ahead, the New Jersey-born Erskine is, simply, one of the most versatile and recorded instrumentalists in modern music.
SFJAZZ celebrates a half-century of the iconic label, with nights in Miner Auditorium and the Joe Henderson Lab featuring ECM’s greatest artists. Named with initials standing for “Edition of Contemporary Music,” founder Manfred Eicher’s Munich-based imprint has represented the leading edge of innovation for five decades and over 1600 individual releases, blurring lines between genres and championing both established masters and young visionaries.
The hugely influential, GRAMMY-winning drummer and composer performs material from his highly regarded ECM albums of the 1990s, re-interpretations of timeless standards, and music from his new quartet release. Perhaps best known for his career with the landmark fusion groups Weather Report and Steps Ahead, the New Jersey-born Erskine is, simply, one of the most versatile and recorded instrumentalists in modern music.
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