Manfred Eicher: the sound man

Admired by Radiohead, friend of Godard, Manfred Eicher is the founder of ECM, one of the most successful jazz labels in the world. He tells Richard Williams how he has survived the virtual disintegration of the music industryOn his desk lie a John Cheever novel and the collected poems of Wallace Stevens. A photograph of his friend Jean-Luc Godard is attached to the pinboard on the wall, close to a calendar on which are scrawled details of the schedule that will see Manfred Eicher produce about t...

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