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.
Hamasyan is one of his generation’s most celebrated pianists, and a composer with a beautiful body of tunes unlike anything else on the scene. His extraordinary albums document his deep engagement with Armenian folk music, including a pair of releases for the ECM label. He performs with vocalist Agbabian.
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.
Hamasyan is one of his generation’s most celebrated pianists, and a composer with a beautiful body of tunes unlike anything else on the scene. His extraordinary albums document his deep engagement with Armenian folk music, including a pair of releases for the ECM label. He performs with vocalist Agbabian.
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