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ROIO of the Week [Recordings
of Indeterminate Origin]
Free
Forms III
While
the young people in the mid-'60s tuned in and dropped out, the European
free jazz proponents went on to explore uncharted territories, playing
jazz that is still invigorating after more than 40 years.
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Alexander
Von Schlippenbach
Peter Brotzmann
Free Jazz 1966/68 [no label, 1CD]
Broadcast on radio 1966/68.
Rock fans who think
that thrash metal is about as harsh as music can get might want to give
these tracks a listen. In terms of passion and ferocity, they are more
than a match for Napalm Death, and for jazz fans, they are comparable
to a latter-day John Zorn.
Performed in the
mid-'60s, it was a time when flower power reigned and due to circumstance
of time and space, European Free Jazz never got to bloom. Listening to
these tracks today, they remain as vital.
Here, fans of free
jazz can thank SAMMLER_KK for sharing on the internet these historical
pieces which are also very good FM recordings.
SAMMLER_KK notes:
Globe Unity (Alexander
von Schlippenbach)
November
3, 1966 - Berlin/W (Germany), Philharmonie (Berliner Jazztage 1966, first
concert)
Manfred
Schoof cnt/flh; Claude Deron tp; Gunter Hampel fl/bcl; Willem Breuker
ss/brs; Peter Brötzmann as; Gerd Dudek ts; Kris Wanders brs; Horst
Gmeinwieser tb; Willi Lietzmann tuba; Alexander von Schlippenbach p/cond;
Buschi Niebergall & Peter Kowald b; Jaki Liebezeit & Mani Neumeier
d.
A further giant milestone
in the history of European "Free Jazz". In 1966 Alexander von Schlippenbach
(as a studied composer) was invited by the "RIAS" (one of the two radio
stations in West Berlin) to write a "third stream" composition to be performed
on the Berliner Jazztage 1966. The result was Globe Unity.
The orchestra that
performed the track, led by Schlippenbach, still exists and has been performing
and recording for more than 40 years. It became one the most important
formation in European Improvised Music. For the "Krautrock"-fans among
us: It's not only pre-CAN (Liebezeit), but also pre-GURU GURU (Neumeier),
pre-TIME IS NOW (Hampel) and pre-pre-LAST
EXIT (Brötzmann).
Main Lines (Alexander
von Schlippenbach)
October
21, 1967 - Donaueschingen (Donaueschinger Tage für Neue Musik 1967)
Manfred
Schoof cnt/tp; Jürg Grau tp; Claude Deron tp; Gunter Hampel fl; Heinz
Sauer ss/ts; Kris Wanders as/brs; Peter Brötzmann as/brs; Gerd Dudek
ts; Willem Breuker bcl; Jiggs Whigham III tb; Albert Mangelsdorff tb;
Willi Lietzmann tuba; Alexander von Schlippenbach p/comp/cond; Buschi
Niebergall b; Peter Kowald b; Jaki Liebezeit d; Mani Neumeier d; Sven-Åke
Johansson d.
Here is Alexander
von Schlippenbach's Globe Untiy 67. There were two compositions performed
at this concert. The second (or first?) was Globe Unity 67, which was
issued on CD in 2001. This track remains unreleased.
Machine Gun (Peter
Brötzmann)
March 30,
1968 - Nuernberg (G), Meistersingerhalle (Jazz Ost-West 68)
Manfred
Schoof cnt; Peter Brötzmann ts; Evan Parker ts; Willem Breuker ts/bcl;
Fred van Hove p; Buschi Niebergall & Peter Kowald b; Sven Åke
Johansson & Han Bennink d.
In May 1968, Peter
Brötzmann organized a recording session for his octet in Bremen.
In those days no record label was willing to release the radical music
of Brötzmann so he decided to release it himself. Today this Machine
Gun LP (BRO-2, 1968) is "arguably the single most important landmark in
European free music."
In 1972 this LP was
reissued by the Berlin based Free Music Production (FMP-090), later on
CD with the additional alternate takes and recently this year by John
Corbett and Peter Brötzmann: The Complete Machine Gun Sessions. The
most important "new" bonus track on this latest reissue is the live performance
of the PB Nonet (Octet+Gerd Dudek) at the "Deutsches Jazzfestival Frankfurt"
(March 24, 1968), recorded and broadcast by the
HR (Hessischer Rundfunk). [Actually this recording was already on Atavistic
Unheard Music Series UMS/ALP211CD Fuck de Boere: dedicated to Johnny Dyani.]
Until recently, this
bonus track was thought of as "the only live version of Machine Gun ever
recorded." On March 30, 1968 - one week after the Frankfurt concert -
the PB Group
performed at the second "Jazz Ost-West" festival in Nuernberg; this time
again as Nonet like in Frankfurt, but with Manfred Schoof as additional
musician. It was recorded by the BR (Bayrischer Rundfunk) and broadcast
by several stations, including the WDR. This forgotten performance is
not only the rarest; with solos by Schoof (cornet) and Breuker (bassclarinet),
it is also the most colourful of the different Machine Gun versions.
Click
on the highlighted tracks to download the MP3s (these are high quality
stereo MP3s - sample rate of 192 kibit/s). As far as we can ascertain,
this recording has never been officially released.
These tracks are no longer available for download. Kindly email us at
mybigo@bigozine.com if you want
to download these tracks at a later time.
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| Track
01 |
Globe
Unity (Alexander von Schlippenbach)
part a (13.6MB)
part b (12.5MB) |
| Track
02 |
Main
Lines (Alexander von Schlippenbach)
part a (9.1MB)
part b (15.7MB)
part c (9.1MB) |
| Track
03 |
Machine
Gun (Peter Brötzmann)
part a (9.6MB)
part b (9.9MB) |
Click
here to order Peter Brötzmann's The Complete Machine Gun Sessions.
For more European
free jazz, one of the best places to start looking would be http://www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/,
maintained by Peter Stubley of the University of Sheffield Library. Many
links to where you can buy European Free Jazz recordings.
For more... email mybigo@bigozine.com
with the message, "Put me on your mailing list."
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26, 2008
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