ECM and Manfred Eicher receive the National Concert Hall’s lifetime achievement award in Dublin
Cellist Anja Lechner accepted it on Eicher’s behalf on 30 October, at one of the concerts in the series the hall is devoting to the label this autumn.
Craig Taborn
The Bad Plus play for the last time in December, twenty-six years and eighteen albums on
Reid Anderson and Dave King announced it in January and sign off with a residency at the Dakota in Minneapolis. Anderson wants to make electronic music; King has finished records waiting.
Dave Holland releases the first box set of his career, “Freedom Call”, a day after turning eighty
Six LPs or three CDs of unreleased live recordings by three of his groups: the Sextet, the Quintet and Prism. Out on 2 October through Edition Records.