ECM Founder Manfred Eicher on the iPod Revolution

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ECM Founder Manfred Eicher on the iPod Revolution
The Graduate Center, CUNY - The Graduate Center, CUNY
In this final "Jazz Legacies" conversation of the year, Gary Giddins speaks with producer Manfred Eicher about his label's impressive four-decade run at the forefront of jazz.Manfred Eicher founded ECM Records in 1969, going on to produce standard-setting recordings by artists such as Keith Jarrett, Paul Bley, Jan Garbarek, Chick Corea, and Pat Metheny. To date, ECM, with Eicher consistently at the helm, has issued over a thousand albums.