The Music of ECM

Jazz & Τζαζ, the prominent Greek monthly founded by Giorgos Charonitis in 1993, chronicled the Greek and international jazz scenes for 245 issues before ending in July 2013. Each issue carried a compilation CD, turning the magazine into both document and doorway. Released in 2006 with Issue #160/61, The Music of ECM gathers 10 recordings from a catalogue whose silences have always seemed as consequential as its fills. Heard together, these pieces form a folded atlas of interior territories. Migration and Moral Light Eleni Karaindrou treats the events of The Weeping Meadow as births, nurturing them until they acquire new flesh and political consciousness. Issued as ECM New Series 1885, the soundtrack sends its eponymous theme down a river-run exposition whose source seems older than the story containing it. History enters quietly in the guise of an accordion, wearing the face of desire. Charles Lloyd approaches another history on Lift Every Voice (ECM 1832/33), where his reading of…