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Meetings made in jazz heaven

Arild Andersen remembers the first time he encountered the man behind the most stylish and influential record company in jazz over the past 40 years, ECM Records founder Manfred Eicher.

“It would have been September 1970 and he travelled up to Oslo by train from Munich,” says Andersen, one of the world’s greatest double bass players, who guests on the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra’s tribute to ECM this weekend.