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Since 1969 Manfred Eicher has had a singular influence on jazz through his ECM label. So what happens in a recording session with the enigmatic producer?

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Great vision: Iain Ballamy’s all-seeing saxophone

Ballamy is a man of many talents, from his time with an anarcho musical commune to reviving English folk songs and writing an agony uncle column