WDR Big Band feat. Bill Holman, Al Cohn, Sal Nistico & Mel Lewis - Cologne 1987

And one more... luckily, a few German radio stations still maintain their big bands, and while they have to play for (some) bread in between, plenty of fascinating and often mighty fine projects result from their collaborations with various soloists, composers and arrangers.

This post features the the WDR Big Band, which goes back to 1946. From 1957 to 1972 it was led by Kurt Edelhagen, later directors included Jerry van Rooyen and Bill Dobbins. Their recent discography includes projects with Abdullah Ibrahim, Joe Lovano, Hiram Bullock, Maceo Parker, Joe Zawinul, Gianluigi Trovesi, Eddie Harris and Pacquito d'Rivera. They also did projects dedicated to the music of Erik Satie, Kurt Weill, worked with George Gruntz and many others.

Here, you hear them with frequent collaborator Mel Lewis on drums and a great trio of tenor sax players: Al Cohn, Sal Nistico and arranger/leader Bill Holman! Hidden in the band, you'll find a few more interesting names, such as Jon Eardley. Also note Heiner Wiberny's fine soprano solo - these guys can play great jazz when it's called for, and I guess that's where there heart is anyway!



WDR Big Band & Bill Holman: Tenor Reunion
Köln (Germany), Stadtgarten
June 12, 1987 (MP2)

Bill Holman - tenor sax, leader, arranger
Al Cohn - tenor sax
Sal Nistico - tenor sax
Mel Lewis - drums

WDR Big Band, incl.
Klaus Osterloh, Jon Eardley, Rick Kiefer - trumpet
Dave Horler, Henning Berg - trombone
Heiner Wiberny - alto & soprano sax
Harald Rosenstein - alto sax
Rolf Römer, Olivier Peters - tenor sax
Paul Peucker - baritone sax
Bora Rokovic - piano
Jean Warland - bass

1. Pilgrim's Pride (Bill Holman) 11:47 [HB,tb;HW,ss;ML,d]
2. Bill Holman's comments (1:52)
3. Good Bait (Tadd Dameron/Count Basie) > Ann BH (8:09) [AC/SN/BH,ts]
4. Woody'n You (Dizzy Gillespie) > Ann BH (6:30) [AC,ts]
5. High On You (Al Cohn) 5:41 [AC/SN,ts]
6. Autumn Leaves (Kosma-Prevert-Mercer) > Ann BH (7:42) [AC/SN,ts]
7. Love For Sale (Cole Porter) 8:55 [AC/SN/BH,ts]
8. Moon Of Manacora (4:34) [inc, beginning missing]

TT: 55:13

Sound: A
Source: DVB-S@320, 48kHz > raw data > ProjextX > mp3DirectCut > mp2
(lossy recording seeded in its original broadcast codec)

Veryan Weston & Luc Ex - Amsterdam 2009

Here's a beautiful concert by Veryan Weston and Luc Ex. Weston can be heard in duo with Trevor Watts here, as well as in a 2003 solo set from Bern. I don't think I've had anything by The Ex or related up here so far - love their collaboration with Getatchew Mekuria!

This here's a very different concert though... Ex says about it: "SOL (...) has an unusual instrumentation and is leaning towards chamber music but then it is often driven by a ‘punky’ energy which is not afraid of being lyrical either.
Sol will combine composed and tightly rehearsed pieces and songs with free improvisation and interpretation.
The repertoire is completely new and contains Ex-Weston-pieces as well songs of Erik Satie, Charles Ives, Burt Bacharach and Berthold Brecht. Every piece is played with intensity, pleasure and an occasional smile."

This should give you quite an accorate idea what the music will sound, let me just add that it's music of great beauty!
And of course, having Ingrid Laubrock in won't do any harm!



Veryan Weston & Luc Ex - Sol6
Amsterdam (NL), Bimhuis
April 9, 2009

Ingrid Laubrock - tenor & soprano sax, voice
Veryan Weston - piano
Mandy Drummond - viola, voice
Hannah Marshall - cello, voice
Luc Ex - electric bass, voice
Tony Buck - drums

CD1/Set1/44:16
1. ’s Nachts ging de zon op (Luc Ex/Veryan Weston) 8:51
2. The Cage (Charles Ives) 9:53
3. Chanson Hollandaise (Erik Satie/George Russell) 2:44
4. Nood (Luc Ex) 10:30
5. B-flat (Luc Ex) 8:40
6. Anyone Who Had a Heart (Burt Bacharach) 3:33

CD2/Set2/46:02
1. Sick Eagle (Charles Ives) + Autistic African Samba (Luc Ex/Veryan Weston) 8:40
2. Promises (Burt Bacharach) 2:01
3. Seeräuber Jenny (Kurt Weill) 10:01
4. Hurtles (Steve Lacy) 11:54
5. Close to You (Burt Bacharach) 3:36
6. Insecurity (Luc Ex/Veryan Weston) 6:14
7. Le Chapelier (Erik Satie) 3:33

TT: 90:18 - complete!

Sound: A
Source: NL Radio6 > DVB-S (48 khz/256kbps) > EDIROL-R09 > Audacity > flac

Bill Frisell & HR Big Band play Monk & Mingus - Fankfurt 2008

Bill Frisell is one of the most interesting and intriguing guitar players around. He has done so much, in the most different kinds of settings and bands! Here he is backed by the HR Big Band, playing Mingus and Monk in arrangements by the great Mike Gibbs!



Bill Frisell & HR Big Band
39th German Jazz Festival
Frankfurt (Germany), Sendesaal des HR
October 30, 2008
(MP2)

Bill Frisell - guitar

Michael Gibbs - conductor, arranger

Andy Greenwood (lead), Martin Auer, Thomas Vogel, Axel Schlosser - trumpet
Günter Bollmann, Peter Feil, Christian Jaksjø - trombone
Manfred Honetschläger - bass trombone
Heinz-Dieter Sauerborn - alto & soprano sax
Oliver Leicht - alto sax & clarinet
Tony Lakatos, Julian Argüelles - tenor sax
Rainer Heute - baritone sax
Peter Reiter - piano, keyboards
Martin Scales - guitar
Thomas Heidepriem - bass
Jean Paul Höchstädter - drums

1. Ask Me Now (Monk) [Lakatos,ts]
> Crepuscule With Nelly (Monk)
> Evidence (Monk) [Schlosser,t] 13:36
2. Ann MG (2:57)
3. Misterioso (Monk) [Feil,tb; Scales,g 2nd solo] > Ann MG (9:57)
4. Duke Ellington's Sound Of Love (Mingus) [Schlosser,t] > Ann MG (9:57)
5. Four In One (Monk) [Reiter,p;Leicht,cl] > Ann MG (7:34)
6. 'Round Midnight (Monk-Hanighen-Williams) [Schlosser,t; Lakatos,ts] > Ann MG (8:19)
7. Better Get Hit In Your Soul (Mingus) [Sauerborn,as; Auer,flh] > Ann MG (10:55)
8. Skippy (Monk) [Heute,bari] 8:48

TT: 72:03

Sound: A (some digi-noises)
Source: DVB-S@320, 48kHz > raw data > ProjextX > mp3DirectCut > mp2
(lossy recording seeded in its original broadcast codec)

Piano for Duke - Berlin 1969

Here's the whole package, minus Cecil Taylor's set, already posted here.

Of course, this again is a Joachim-Ernst Berendt production, recently rebroadcast in MP2 format (digital satellite, original files - check the link on top right to find out more about handling MP2 files). Thanks a lot to the seeder over on dime!

As with the 1965 Piano Workshop, this goes in big strides, from Joe Turner to Cecil Taylor, with sets by Thelonious Monk, Steve Kuhn and German pianist Joachim Kühn (who can also be heard on alto sax). The focus is mostly on Ellington, which makes this even more of a treat to my ears!



Piano For Duke
Berliner Jazztage 1969
Berlin (Germany), Philharmonie
November 6, 1969 (MP2)

CD1/54:48

1. Introduction by Joachim-Ernst Berendt 02:27

Joe Turner Greets Ellington - Joe Turner Trio

Joe Turner, piano
Hans Rettenbacher, bass
Stu Martin, drums

2. Joe Turner talks about Duke Ellington (1:30)
3. Jig Walk (2:28)
4. Squeeze Me (4:11)
5. unknown (3:54) [FM source]
6. Caravan (3:05)
7. Satin Doll (3:53)
8. Mood Indigo (2:31)


Steve Kuhn Trio

Steve Kuhn, piano
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, bass
Aldo Romano, drums

9. Announcement by Dietrich Schulz-Köhn (1:10)
10. All That's Left Is To Say Goodbye (5:16)
11. U. M. M. G. (6:02)
12. Baubles, Bangles And Beads (6:52)
13. Lament - Once We Loved (4:34)
14. Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most (6:50)


CD2/58:55

Joachim Kühn Quartett

Joachim Kühn, piano & alto sax
Barre Phillips, bass
Jacques Thollot, drums
Stu Martin, drums

1. Announcement by Dietrich Schulz-Köhn (1:02)
2. Suite To Our Father Duke (17:25)
3. Oh Oma - For My Mother (10:37)


Thelonious Monk, piano

with (#11):
Joe Turner, piano
Hans Rettenbacher, bass
Stu Martin, drums

4. Announcement by Dietrich Schulz-Köhn (0:33)
5. Satin Doll (3:38)
6. Sophisticated Lady (4:27)
7. Caravan (6:15)
8. Solitude (5:37)
9. Crepuscule With Nellie (2:54)
10. announcement by Joachim-Ernst Berendt (1:05)
11. Blues For Duke (5:17)

TT: 113:43

Sound: A/A-
Source: DVB-S@320, 48kHz > raw data > ProjextX > mp3DirectCut > mp2
(lossy recording seeded in its original broadcast codec)

Globe Unity Orchestra - Berlin 1986

Alexander von Schlippenbach's Globe Unity Orchestra is one of the longest living large band projects in free jazz. Here they are in Berlin, at roughly half of their run so far (I hope it will continue for another while!), incorporating the usual mix of musicians from Europe, the US, and Japan as well.

This comes from the same edition of the JazzFest that also yielded the 20th Anniversary album for FMP (recorded Nov. 4).



Globe Unity Orchestra
JazzFest Berlin
Berlin (Germany)
October 30, 1986

Toshinori Kondo - trumpet
Kenny Wheeler - trumpet, flugelhorn
Günter Christmann - trombone
George Lewis - trombone
Albert Mangelsdorff - trombone
Bob Stewart - tuba
Gerd Dudek - soprano & tenor sax, flute, clarinet
Evan Parker - tenor sax
Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky - alto & baritone sax, flute, clarinet
Alexander von Schlippenbach - piano, leader
Alan Silva - bass
Paul Lovens - percussion

1. Quasar (44:58) [inc]

Sound: A
Lineage: DVB-S@320, 48kHz > raw data > ProjextX > mp3DirectCut > mp2
(lossy recording seeded in its original broadcast codec)

Michel Godard - Offenburg 2004

And one more for the lovers of the tuba - a very fine AUD capture of Michel Godard's band "Cousins Germains" with the saxophones of Wolfgang Puschnig (Austrian of course) and Christof Lauer, Herbert Joos on trumpet, the devilish looks and guitars of Marc Ducret, and drummer Wolfgang Reisinger. A mighty fine band, that also has a CD out.

Godard has done many interesting projects, as I mentioned in the previous post. Among the finest are his own Castel del Monte discs, released on Enja. Medieval touches can be heard in this set as well, thanks to Godard's use of the serpent, a very old predecessor of the tuba.

This came as a crappily tracked 2CD set, I shortened it a bit here and there, retracked the whole show, and not the music can be enjoyed in all it's greatness!
Thanks a lot to the original seeder on dime, and thanks even more for dedicating this set to me, back then!



Michel Godard - Cousins Germains
Festival "Jazz d'or"
Offenburg (DE), Reithalle im Kulturforum
November 13, 2004

Herbert Joos - trumpet, flugelhorn
Michel Godard - tuba, serpent
Christof Lauer - soprano & tenor saxophone
Wolfgang Puschnig - alto saxophone, flute
Marc Ducret - guitar
Wolfgang Reisinger - drums

1. unknown (12:41)
2. unknown (12:04)
3. unknown (Lauer) > Ann MG (12:16)
4. unknown (Joos) > Ann (15:27)
5. La chanson des vieux amants (Jacques Brel) > Ann/Band Intros MG (6:52)
6. unknown (Puschnig) 17:19
7. unknown (4:04)

TT: 79:47

Sound: A-/B+
Lineage: cdr in trade--eac--flac level 8 --dime..

This is for UBU.

Here's a fantastic performance by the Maestro Godard in such a great company!
Ducret as good as always....Lauer in very fine form..
A great aud/recording...A quality IMHO..

I thanks in advance for any help with the setlist or artwork ...
More Ducret.....more Godard "tuba-tuba" performances !!!

:: ubu edits ::
to make this shorter than 80:00 min:
- deleted 28 seconds of silence & gap at end of #1
- deleted 5 seconds of silence & gap at end of #2
- deleted 3 seconds of silence & gap at end of #3
- deleted 2 seconds of silence at beginning of #4
- deleted 3 seconds of silence & gap at end of #4
- moved Ann/Band Intros from beginning of #6 (which opened disc 2)
to end of #5, spliced applause (@ 5:51), deleted faded duplications
- deleted 2 second gap at end of #6
- deleted 4 seconds of silence at beginning of #7

Charlie Mariano / Ali Haurand / Daniel Humair - Genève 1999

Charlie Mariano was one of the sad losses of the past year. He seemed to go on forever though, and I'm grateful for all the music he left us! Among his finest later efforts was a great Enja released titled "Deep in a Dream" - recommended!

Recently, Enja reissued Eberhard Weber's Colours albums, with Charlie, Rainer Brüninghaus, and drummers John Marshall and Jon Christensen (one at the time).

To read more, here are some links:
Guardian obituary
Boston Globe obituary
Charlie Mariano on AAJ

I shared a 2002 concert with his electric backing band and some guests from all over the world last year, and I have two more shows ready. Here's the first of them, a stellar trio with one of my favourite drummers, Daniel Humair, and Ali Haurand on bass. It comes from a dime download (thanks to jazzrita who shared it there!), and it was fine enough for me to edit it in order to get rid of all the disturbing radio chatter between the songs.



Charlie Mariano / Ali Haurand / Daniel Humair
Festival de l'AMR 1999
Geneve (Switzerland), Alhambra
March 13, 1999

Charlie Mariano - alto sax
Ali Haurand - bass
Daniel Humair - drums

1. Round Trip (Ornette Coleman) 7:00
2. Everything Happens To Me (9:52)
3. Yagapriya (Charlie Mariano) 12:01
4. Plum Island (Charlie Mariano) 11:04
5. Yehudi Menuhin (Charlie Mariano) 6:35
6. No More Chains (Ali Haurand) 6:.36 [inc]

TT: 53:09

Sound: A
Lineage: RSR Espace2 (MPEG1 Layer 2 / 256 kbps, 48kH) > received with satellite > tracked with wavelab > flac > dime

UPLOADED BY JAZZRITA 09-08-04

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removed fm announcements at end of #1, #3 and #4
added fade-ins/fade-outs
fixed mark #5/6

Additional lineage: FLAC > WAV > Cool Edit Pro > FLAC (8,asb,verify)

Gunter Hampel "Galaxie Dream Band" - Donaueschingen 1975

Here's a show I dug up from some old archival DVDs, by Gunter Hampel's "Galaxie Dream Band", recorded at the SWF Jazz Session of 1975's Donaueschinger Musiktage.

Quite likely, this is the finest sounding show in circulation... the band consists of several longtime collaborators of Hampel's, Perry Robinson on clarinet, Mark Whitecage and Thomas Keyserling on saxophones and flute, Jack Gregg on bass, Martin Bues on drums, and the great Jeanne Lee on vocals.

This is strong and beautiful music - watch out!



Hampel Gunter Galaxie Dream Band
SWR Jazz Session
Donaueschinger Musiktage, Donaueschingen (DE)
October 19, 1975

Perry Robinson - clarinet
Mark Whitecage - alto saxophone, flute
Thomas Keyserling - flute, tenor saxophone
Gunter Hampel - bass clarinet, flute, piano, vibes
Jack Gregg - bass
Martin Bues - drums
Jeanne Lee - vocals

1. Stage Announcement (J.E. Berendt) > Mystic Pilgrimage (24:13)
2. Land Of The Tree People > Flying Carpet (22:56)
3. Woodwinds Of Change (11:22)

TT: 58:35

Sound: A
Lineage: pre-FM sbd>?>cdr>eac(secure mode)>flac(level 8)

Pee Wee Ellis - Bremen 2004

More funky sounds, this time by Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis, longtime member of the JB's, frequent collaborator of Maceo Parker and Fred Wesley, Ellis also played and arranged for as various musicians as Van Morrison, Omar Sosa, Oumou Sangare, Cheikh Lo, Miguel 'Anga' Diaz and Cachaito Lopez. He played on Ali Farka Toure's final album Savane and has more recently appeared with Farka's son, Vieux Farka Toure as well.

On this fine recording from Germany, Ellis is joined by a German band providing fine backings for his brand of smooth funk. It seems they played in Bremen from September 20-24 that year, and Minor Music released a selection from these dates on one of their Pee Wee discs. I haven't made any comparisons, but what you get here is a full night (or at least much of it), just as the music was performed!

And this includes what's likely the s-l-o-w-e-s-t version of "I Feel Good"! And so you will, after playing this music!



Pee Wee Ellis & Band
Bremen (Germany), Grosser Sendesaal, Radio Bremen
September 23, 2004

Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis – tenor saxophone
Joo Kraus – trumpet
Joe Gallardo – trombone
Ralf Schmidt – keyboard, electric piano
Martin Scales - guitar
Christian Diener – bass
Torsten Krill – drums

Disc 1/59:58
1. Jive Samba (14:28)
2. Ham (12:23)
3. My Neighbourhood (9:35)
4. The Everywhere Calypso (4:09)
5. Blue Bell Pepper (7:33)
6. Riff 39 A (4:52)
7. I Heard It Through The Grapevine (6:54)

Disc 2/48:08
1. Different Rooms (10:35)
2. You Haven´t Done Nothing (5:10)
3. All Four Seasons (5:45)
4. On A Slow Boat To China (6:32)
5. Chicken Soup (9:17)
6. Cherry Red (5:48)
7. I Feel Good (4:44)

Sound: A
Lineage: FM broadcast > ? > cdr > eac > wave > flac frontend
(align on sector boundaries Level 8)

Radio Jazz Group Stuttgart - November 19, 1976

With rapidshare having changed its policy and links getting deleted after 90 days of inactivity soon, expect a flurry of posts in the coming weeks, including "archival" posts listing all the still available links. I have plenty of files I uploaded more than 90 days ago and that had zero downloads, as I've not shared them.

Btw, wuala is no option, they allow 1-3GB for free, and 100 GB (which is what I use with RS at this time) would cost 160$ per year... that wouldn't account for new uploads. Also, with there hardly being any comment on the music, I wouldn't expect any donations to come in to cover that, so I'll just arrange and files will be deleted faster than before. And no, I'll not do re-ups all the time!

Ok, now on the good news, the music. Here's another show by Wolfgang Dauner's Radio Jazz Group Stuttgart (check out the earlier posts for more information).



Radio Jazz Group Stuttgart
Stuttgart (Germany), Studio Villa Berg
November 19, 1976

Guenter Christmann - trombone
Detlef Schoenenberg - drums
Harald Bojé - synthesizer
Wolfgang Dauner - piano

1. Cave Canem (7:57)
2. Tet-Anus (10:56)
3. Sueddeutscher Rundfunk (11:45)
4. Trio One (6:42)
5. Trio Two (9:38)

TT: 47:00

Sound: A-
Source: SWF broadcast (1976)
Lineage: direct to Philips mono reeltape > CDR via sony RCD W3 > EAC > waveLab > trlilh .flac

Radio Jazz Group Stuttgart - January 17, 1985

This was shared by blackforest on dime - thanks a lot!

It's one of two post-scripts to my earlier seven-part series of shows by Wolfgang Dauner's "Radio Jazz Group Stuttgart" project. The links for the whole series are still good, I just checked them!



Radio Jazz Group Stuttgart
Peter Brötzmann / Albert Mangelsdorff / Wolfgang Dauner / Han Bennink
Stuttgart (Germany), poss. Villa Berg
January 17, 1985

Peter Brötzmann - baritone & tenor sax, clarinet, tarogato
Albert Mangelsdorff - trombone
Wolfgang Dauner - piano
Han Bennink - drums, percussion

1. First Attack (Dauner) 4:19
2. Sticks to come (Mangelsdorff) 8:16
3. Dropsticks (Bennink) 24:38
4. Jetzt stürzen wir wieder ab (Brötzmann) 20:32

TT: 57:45

Sound: A
Source/Lineage/Quality: FM – Maxell UDXL II 90 – R09 – Magix XXL 2008(mastering)

Charles Tolliver & NDR Big Band - Hamburg 1979

Here's a nice little show featuring Charles Tolliver with the NDR Big Band.

The NDR Big Band's full line-up for this show hasn't been determined, it seems (if you know more, please post a comment!), but it includes several late greats, including Herb Geller and Benny Bailey, whom I was lucky enough to catch live just in time. Wolfgang Dauner is on piano (check out the series of Radio Jazz Group Stuttgart shows posted here for some quite different Dauner).

The great Tolliver photos were shot by Karlheinz Klüter, the year is unknown.



NDR Big Band feat. Charles Tolliver
Hamburg (Germany), Funkhaus des NDR
February 1979

Charles Tolliver - trumpet, arranger

NDR Big Band, incl:
Benny Bailey - trumpet, flugelhorn
Herb Geller - alto sax, flute
Wolfgang Schlüter - vibes
Wolfgang Dauner - piano
Lukas Lindholm - bass
Alvin Queen - drums

1. Impact (8:10)
2. Grand Max (6:15)
3. Linsome (7:13)
4. Rejoicing (7:44)
5. Ruthie's Heart (8:44)
6. Mother Wind (7:12)
7. Plight (5:30)

TT: 50:51

Source: FM
No lineage info

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All applause was cut out and there were almost no gaps between titles.
I added bits of silence at the end of #1 and #2 and were necessary smoothed out the marks a bit.
Mark 5/6 was set too late - fixed

Additional lineage: FLAC > WAV > Cool Edit Pro > FLAC (8,asb,verify)

Monk's Casino - Hamburg 1999

And finally, one for young and old, tall and short, smart and dumb... the all encompassing music of one Thelonious Monk, performed by the great group "Die Enttäuschung" with Alexander von Schlippenbach at the piano. Don't miss this one!

It took me a while to figure this out, with the help of the official release on Intakt records, and to re-track it as nicely as possible - hope you'll enjoy it! It's to my knowledge the most complete of the live recordings to be found by this group (well, there may be complete AUD versions, but this one is in perfect FM quality)!



Alexander Von Schlippenbach & Die Enttauschung - Monk's Casino
Hamburg (Germany), NDR, Studio 10
January 28, 1999

Axel Dörner - trumpet (prob. piano on CD3#7)
Rudi Mahall - bass clarinet
Alexander Von Schlippenbach - piano (prob. trumpet on CD3#7)
Jan Roder - bass
Uli Jennessen - drums

CD1/69:14
1. Stage Intro by Michael Naura (2:30)
2. Band Intros by AvSch (2:39)
3. Thelonious (2:51)
4. Locomotive (1:37)
5. Stuffy Turkey (0:38)
6. Trinkle-Tinkle (4:21)
7. Coming On the Hudson (2:26)
8. Evidence (4:05)
9. Pannonica (1:43)
10. Bemsha Swing Intro (Axel Dörner) 1:21
11. Bemsha Swing / 52nd Street Theme (5:59)
12. Misterioso / Sixteen / Skippy (11:32)
13. Monk's Point (1:51)
14. Green Chimneys / Little Rootie Tootie (5:43)
15. San Francisco Holiday (3:14)
16. Off Minor (2:30)
17. Gallop's Gallop (4:58)
18. Crepuscule with Nellie (2:18)
19. Hackensack (3:18)
20. Consecutive Second's (3:31)

CD2/63:34
1. Brilliant Corners (5:47)
2. Eronel (1:55)
3. Monk's Dream (2:40)
4. Shuffle Boil (5:30)
5. Hornin' In (5:42) [might be two tracks, 3:19]
6. Criss Cross (2:12)
7. Introspection (5:18)
8. Ruby My Dear (1:18)
9. In Walked Bud (2:24)
10. Let's Cool One / Let's Call This (4:11)
11. Jackie-ing (3:40)
12. Humph (1:44) [inc]
13. Monk's Mood (3:29)
14. Four In One / 'Round Midnight (7:54)
15. Played Twice (2:27)
16. Friday the 13th (2:35)
17. Ugly Beauty (2:18)
18. Bye-Ya / Oska T. (2:22)

CD3/44:21
1. Bolivar Blues / Well You Needn't (3:07)
2. Brake's Sake (1:32)
3. Who Knows (1:53)
4. Boo Boo's Birthday / Ask Me Now (4:24)
5. Think of One (2:19)
6. Raise Four (1:18)
7. Japanese Folk Song / Children's Song / Blue Monk (4:24)
8. We See (5:20)
9. Bright Mississippi (3:06)
10. Reflections (1:44)
11. Five Spot Blues (1:43)
12. Light Blue (0:56)
13. Teo (2:31)
14. Rhythm-a-Ning (4:12)
15. Epistrophy / Oska T. (5:45)

All compositions by Thelonious Monk
Arrangements by Schlippenbach, Dörner, Mahall

TT: 177:09

Sound: A
Lineage :fm > dat > cdr(n) > eac > flac frontend > flac

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deleted fm intros/outros
re-tracked (some tracks contained two titles, some marks were set too late)

Additional lineage: FLAC > WAV > CoolEditPro > FLAC (8,asb,verify)



MISSING TITLES (I THINK):

CD2
Functional
Work / I Mean You
(possibly missing because they happened after the inc "Humph"
and before CD2#13?)

CD3:
Blue Hawk / North of the Sunset / Blue Sphere / Something in Blue
A Merrier Christmas
Straight No Chaser

Nicolas Simion Group feat. Zoltan Lantos - Berlin 2000 (re-up)

Here's a re-up on request - the very first show I've shared here, ages ago...
The original post:

Here then is my first share on the blog, a nice radio broadcast by the Nicolas Simion group with Zoltan Lantos on violin. Both musicians are eastern european, though Simion has been based in the western part. I first heard Simion on the ORF produced CD of his and the great Iancsi Körössy's. They led a quartet together a few years ago, likely just for that one tour that ORF recorded in Graz. On that occasion, they also had Lee Konitz sitting in as a guest.
I have a live recording from Bucharest from that fall 2001 tour, sans Lee, that I could post later if there's interest.



Nicolas Simion Group
featuring Zoltan Lantos
Berlin (DE), Haus der Kulturen der Welt
June 17, 2000

Nicolas Simion - tenor & soprano sax, bass clarinet
Zoltan Lantos - violin
Norbert Scholly - guitar, Wald-Zither
Martin Gjakonovski - bass, oud
Johannes Bockholt - drums, percussion

1. (14:08)
2. (6:58)
3. (5:27)
4. (9:19)
5. (11:14)
6. (6:39)
7. Lullaby (2:11)

TT: 55:59

Sound: A/A-
Source: OE1 "Jazznacht" / 2006-06-18
Lineage: FM > Minidisc > analogue to HD > GoldWave > FLAC (8,asb,verify)

burned at end:

FM intro (1:41)
FM outro (0:31)

TT (all): 58:13

As mentioned before, this was recorded to MD in longplay (LP4, to be exact) mode. I decoded the FLAC files w/FLAC Frontend and created MP3s @ 320 kbs with CDex, using lame encoder.

Steve Swell/Gebhard Ullmann Quartet - Zurich 2006

This is my own audience recording, and one that turned out quite exceptionally good, I dare say... it was a great concert, but alas, an audience of a mere thirteen, including half a dozen that was there from the organising venue and bar... pretty sad, but the Swell/Ullmann Quartet with Hilliard Greene and the great Barry Altschul played one great set for the lucky few.

Now here's your chance to catch up with what you missed back then!

Also check out their nice disc Desert Song and Other Landscapes (CIMP).



Swell-Ullmann Quartet
Zürich (CH), Rote Fabrik, Clubraum
October 29, 2006

Steve Swell - trombone
Gebhard Ullmann - tenor sax, bass clarinet
Hilliard Greene - bass
Barry Altschul - drums

1. Stage Introduction by Fredi Bosshard (2:16)
2. Improvisation > Seven 9-8 (Ullmann) 24:52
3. Announcement by GU (1:09)
4. Soron (?) (Swell) 22:44
5. Flutist With Hat and Shoe (Ullmann) 9:46
[description of a painting yet to be painted]
6. Announcement by GU (1:19)
7. Box Set (Swell) 11:49

TT: 73:58

Sound: A-
Source: audience recording, front row, middle
Lineage: crappy sony mic > minidisc > analogue to HD > GoldWave > FLAC (8,asb,verify)
Taped & transferred by ubu
First shared on dimeadozen in March 2009

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Notes:

I sat slightly in the middle, more or less in front of Ullmann & Greene, Altschul & Swell being on the left.

The audience consisted of 13 people (including this humble king), of them most likely not even half paid any entrance fee... Irene Schweizer was there, too, and the concert was da shit, I thought, after having needed 10 or so minutes to dig deeply into the music. Pretty sad the crowd still prefers your olde mainstream type stuff or drab electronic and straight beat experiments and stuffe! This is the real deal here, intelligent music that provides listeners with tons of fun!

Oh, and that's not me gasping in... ahem.. arrousal, he he... at the beginning of #5, rather it's them musicians doing their circular breathing thing... up-close recording, ain't it!?

Brötzmann-Mangelsdorff-Bennink - Berlin 1985

Here's another one I posted on dime a few months ago. I got it from there and brought it back into circulation as a little Brötz-flood was going on. This features longstanding musical partners Brötzmann and Han Bennink along with the great Albert Mangelsdorff.

Brötzmann can also be heard on first and on the third of seven shows so far posted here by the various formations of the Radio Jazz Group Stuttgart (more to come!). Both shows incorporate the classic Brötzmann/Van Hove/Bennink trio into larger settings under the leadership of Wolfgang Dauner.
In addition to that, I also posted one of my own recordings by the power trio of Brötzmann/Pliakas/Wertmüller.

Albert Mangelsdorff was featured in several posts here, though of course they still fail to give you a complete picture of this great musician:
Albert Mangelsdorff Quintett - Tuttlingen 1961
(an early edition with Bent Jaedig and Hartwig Bartz in place of Heinz Sauer and Ralf Hübner)
Albert Mangelsdorff & Lee Konitz - Hannover 1982
(an NDR Jazz Workshop just in duo!)
Albert Mangelsdorff & Jean-Rémy Guedon - Saarbrücken 1997
(another duo setting with tenor sax this time)
He can also be heard on a portion of my Bud Shank homage, and finally he's also on the first of those Radio Jazz Group Stuttgart shows!

The presence of Bennink of course is always a plus! He can be heard with the ICP Orchestra on this 2001 show, and he also makes the list of great drummers to be heard here (that link will show to the way to the two Radio Jazz Group Stuttgart shows with Bennink - it's of course the same two as those with Brötzmann). And finally, Bennink was on one of the first posts that actually contained music, a Sonny Rollins trio concert from 1967 (shared in MP3 format).

Photo by Susan O'Connor

Peter Brotzmann / Albert Mangelsdorff / Han Bennink
Berlin (Germany), Quasimodo
January 14, 1985

Peter Brotzmann - tenor & baritone sax, clarinet, tarogato
Albert Mangelsdorff - trombone
Han Bennink - drums, percussion

CD1/45:19
1. (26:36)
2. (4:18)
3. (14:22)

CD2/44:58
1. (22:43)
2. (22:13)

TT: 90:17

Sound: A
Lineage: sbd > cassette? > cdr(n) > eac (re-appended all files) > cdwav > flac frontend > flac

:: ubu note ::
this is an exact re-seed exact for the new info-file and md5-checksums
the flacs were left as they came (no tags)

Albert Mangelsdorff - Tuttlingen 1961

As I'm offline (thanks to my provider...) the links are hidden in here (look for the numbers...) as I can't programme comments to appear at a certain time. Sorry for that, but last time I did it like this, it worked out pretty well!

This is a fine show by an early version of Albert Mangelsdorff's great quintet. It was shared on dime by "jazzrita" - many thanks for your continuing generosity!

Günter Kronberg is mentioned by MC Joachim Ernst Berendt as the latest addition to the band, and in my humble opinion, his emotional alto sas was one of the main assets, the music turned into more of a free mumbling thing once he was gone and got less interesting, in my opinion (though the Enja live album from Tokyo is still pretty good!)

I re-tracked it and did away with two second gaps and some other imperfections, hope you'll enjoy this one as much as I do!

Also check out an earlier post here of a duo show of Albert's with Lee Konitz.

Günter Kronberg 1966 (Photo: Ulli Schwenn)

Albert Mangelsdorff Quintett
SWF Jazz Konzert
Tuttlingen (Germany), Steinbeis-Gewerbeschule
February 19, 1961

Albert Mangelsdorff - trombone
Günter Kronberg - alto & baritone sax
Bent Jaedig - tenor sax
Peter Trunk - bass
Hartwig Bartz - drums

Announcer: Joachim Ernst Berendt

1. Radio Intro JEB (2:36) [cut]
2. unknown (Mangelsdorff) 5:40
3. Announcement JEB (0:17)
4. Hershey Bar (Lester Young) 5:39 [feat GK,bari]
5. BaHutSha (8:22)
6. Announcement JEB (1:04) [cut]
7. LaVern Walk (Oscar Pettiford) 8:26 [arr./feat. PT,bari]
8. Announcement JEB (0:07)
9. Embraceble You (George Gershwin) 6:02 [feat. BJ,ts]
10. Announcement JEB (0:48)
11. Philly J. J. (6:59) [feat. HB,d]
12. Now's the Time (Charlie Parker) 4:53
13. unknown (6:40)
14. Set 'em Up (Mangelsdorff) 4:32
15. Autumn Leaves (Kosma-Prevert-Mercer) 5:10 [feat. AM,tb]
16. Drifting on a Reed (Charlie Parker) 6:22

TT: 73:47

Sound: A/A-
Lineage: fm > cdr trade > flac > dime

UPLOADED BY JAZZRITA 09-04-01
BY REQUEST OF relyles


:: ubu's edits ::

additional lineage: FLAC > WAV > Cool Edit Pro > FLAC (8,asb,verify)

deteted gaps at end of tracks
separated #8 from #9
fixed some little things here and there (marks, fades, deleted a bit of cut-off talk at end of #6)

Note: in #1 Berendt says what follows is part 2 of the concert, and in #10 he says a drum-solo is always a good way to end a concert, so maybe #12-16 come from the first part of the concert. All of the later track marks were cut though, so there's no indication to be taken from there as to the actual succession of the tunes.

Frank Gratkowski - Zurich 2004

Next one from the dime series - this is gone over there already. At least it was snatched 82 times (and it was a re-seed - here's my little write-up from dime:

This recording by Frank Gratkowski is from a concert I attended. It was pretty good, though they followed a terrific set by Barry Guy's New Orchestra, which left me totally exhausted. Heard on its own though, it's fine (and funny enough, the Barry Guy doesn't really work on tape, although live it was one of the most intense concert I ever witnessed).

Here's Gratkowski's homepage, and here's some info on the EFI site.

(Note: I do have a recording of the Guy concert, but it's pretty boring - a perfect example where a great concert did not transfer well to a recording...)


Frank Gratkowski
Taktlos
Zürich (Switzerland), Rote Fabrik
May 9, 2004

Wolter Wierbos - trombone
Frank Gratkowski - alto sax & contrabass clarinet
Dieter Manderscheid - bass
Gerry Hemingway - drums

1. Part I (29:35)
2. Part II (19:38) [inc]

TT: 49:13

Sound: A
Source: DRS 2 broadcast
Lineage: FM > minidisc > analogue to HD > GoldWave > CDR
Additional (2009): EAC (secure) > Cool Edit Pro (centred tracks) > FLAC (8,asb,verify)
Recorded and transferred (2004) and shared on dimeadozen (Jan 2009) by ubu

Note: the second of two parts performed at the concert is incomplete by some minutes

Albert Mangelsdorff & Lee Konitz - Hannover 1982 (NDR Jazz Workshop #169)

Final one... I think this was shared (in a different edit, this is my own) over on inconstantsol a while ago which made me hold this back, but rather than just seing the links go, maybe there's someone who's missed this before, so here it is again:


Foto by Frank Schindelbeck (see his biography of Mangeldorff's)

Albert Mangelsdoff & Lee Konitz
NDR Jazzworkshop #169
Hannover (Germany), Kleiner Sendesaal des Funkhaus
March 11, 1982

Albert Mangelsdorff - trombone
Lee Konitz - alto sax

1. A Minor Blues In F (Konitz) 4:34
2. Ann LK/AM (1:53)
3. Mississippi Mud (Mangelsdorff) 12:45
4. Ann LK (0:24)
5. She's As Wild As Springtime (Konitz) 4:31
6. Ann LK/AM (1:25)
7. Rootie Toot (Mangelsdorff) 8:44 [AM solo]
8. Ann AM (0:40)
9. Mood Indigo (Ellington-Bigard-Mills) 4:27
10. Ann LK (0:39)
11. Body and Soul (Green-Sour-Heyman-Eyton) 7:46 [LK solo]
12. Ann LK (0:35)
13. Hannover Square (7:27)
14. Ann LK (0:33)
15. KoMa (Konitz-Mangelsdorff) 5:19
16. Ann AM (0:26)
17. Just Friends (Klenner-Lewis) 6:44
18. Ann LK (0:25)
19. About Time We Looked at This (Konitz) 2:28 [inc, fade-out]
20. Duo Love Call (Konitz-Mangelsdorff) 5:53

TT: 77:52

Sound: A/A-
Original Lineage: got this in trade, eac & tlh used, then dime.
Additional lineage: FLAC > WAV > Cool Edit Pro > FLAC (8,asb,verify)

::ubu's edits::
added fade-in at beginning of #1
fixed all marks
separated intros
omitted two short silent tracks following #17 and #19
added 1.5sec of silence at end of #19
deleted short bits of FM talk before and after #20, added fades

Hans Koller with Lee Konitz & Lars Gullin - Freiburg 1956 / SWF Big Band (dir. Eddie Sauter) - Donaueschingen 1957

Here's a nice double feature centred on the late great Austrian tenor sax player, Hans Koller. He might be best known for his turn on Oscar Pettiford's great "Vienna Blues" album (Black Lion) with Attila Zoller and Jimmy Pratt, as well as for a run of fine albums on MPS spanning the 60s and early/mid 70s. Zo-Ko-So (with Lee Konitz and Martial Solal) is a stand-out, but all his MPS albums are fine!

Here he is at an earlier stage, from the days when he led the Hans Koller Quartett (with pianist Roland Kovac) as well as co-led a band with pianist Jutta Hipp (soon after to hit the USA with three fine albums on Blue Note). Koller's quartet is joined by two stellar guests, Lee Konitz and Lars Gullin, both among the finest and most individual voices on their respective instruments.

The second part features Hans Koller among the newly founded SWF Big Band of 1957, led by arranger Eddie Sauter. Among the other soloists to be heard are trumpet player Rolf Schneebiegl, trombonist Otto Bredl, Rudi Flierl on baritone, and Dave Hildinger on marimba and piano. The arrangements are quite... well, let me say the remind me of Kenton at his most bombastic... I know Sauter has his own story (about which I'm completely ignorant so far though, I've never heard anything by the Sauter-Finnegan orchestra, for instance).

: . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . :. : . : . : . : . :

Hans Koller / Lee Konitz / Lars Gullin
SWF Jazz Session
Freiburg (Germany), Aula der Universität
January 1956

Hans Koller - tenor sax (#1,2,4-6)
Lee Konitz - alto sax (#3-6)
Lars "Lasse" Gullin - baritone sax (#2,4-6)
Willie Sanner - baritone sax (#2,4-6)
Roland Kovac - piano
Shorty Röder - bass
Rudi Sehring - drums

1. I'll Never Be the Same (5:57)
2. Oh, That Cologne (4:17)
3. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You (3:42)
4. Lover Man (4:25) [LK feature]
5. Lee-La-Lu (Kovac) 3:39 [RK feature]
*6. Zoot (Sims) 6:07


SWF Big Band
Donaueschinger Musikfestspiele
Donaueschingen (DE)
October 27, 1957

Eddie Sauter - leader, arranger
Rolf Schneebiegl, Kurt Sauter - trumpet
Otto Bredl - trombone
Hans Koller - tenor sax
Rudi Flierl - baritone sax
Dave Hildinger - piano, percussion, marimba
Blanche Birdsong - harp
Dave Moore - bass
Sperie Karas - drums
others unknown

7. Tropic of Baden-Baden (2:48)
*8. Tropic of Kommingen (4:17)
9. Loop (3:56)
*10. Kinetic Energy (2:05) [percussion feature]
*11. Dodo (Gulda) 3:04 [inc?]

TT: 44:22

Sound: A
Source: SWR2 "Jazz Session - Aus dem Archiv" / 2008-01-23
Lineage: digi-fm (MPEG1 Layer 2/320 kbs) > WAV > Cool Edit Pro > FLAC (8,asb,verify)


*) commercial relases:
#6: Delta 20828
#8,10, 11: MPS 68161 / Pausa PR7081


*** blurb from swr2.de ***

Anfang der 50er Jahre war der aus Wien stammende Tenorsaxofonist Hans Koller nach Süddeutschland übersiedelt. 1957 zog Koller sogar nach Baden-Baden, wo er Solist der von Eddie Sauter geleiteten Big Band beim Südwestfunk wurde. Kurze Zeit davor hatte Koller, der neben Albert Mangelsdorff zu den Wegbereitern des mitteleuropäischen Jazz zählte, Gelegenheit, sein Können gemeinsam mit zwei Topsolisten unter Beweis zu stellen: dem amerikanischen Altsaxofonisten Lee Konitz und dem schwedischen Baritonsaxofonisten Lars Gullin, die Koller ein sein damaliges Quintett integrierte. Auch Ausschnitte aus dem Donaueschinger Konzert der Sauter-Big-Band (1957) sind in dieser Sendung zu hören.