The Colours of Chloë

Eberhard Weber · 1974 · First album under his own name, ECM 1042

Context

Title track of Eberhard Weber's first album, recorded in December 1973 at Tonstudio Bauer in Ludwigsburg and produced by Manfred Eicher for ECM. Weber combines his electric bass, Rainer Brüninghaus's piano and the cellos of the Stuttgart radio orchestra. AllMusic sees it as "symphonic jazz" that helped define the ECM sound.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Krautjazz (German jazz-rock), ECM and European jazz. Among the origins and influences of Krautjazz: Free jazz, Free improvisation and European free.

By the same artist

• Silent Feet (1977)

Sources

• EN: The Colours of Chloë

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