For German readers: some thoughts and notes and quotes on the music I'm listening - to be found
on my new blog:
ubus-notizen.blogspot.com

Also check out the great new, independent magazine get happy!?, reporting on music, movies and more:
gethappymag.de

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Brotherhood of Breath

In absence of new posts of my own, let me point out a live show by Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath, over on that great place, Inconstant Sol.
Altena 1972

The info pulled together should now read like this:

Brotherhood of Breath
Altena (DE)
June 24 (1-3) & June 25 (4), 1972


prob. line-up:
Harry Beckett, Marc Charig - trumpet
Malcolm Griffith, Nick Evans - trombone
Mike Osborne - alto sax
Dudu Pukwana (#4 only) - alto sax
Gary Windo - tenor sax
poss. unknown (Alan Skidmore? Evan Parker?) - tenor sax
Chris McGregor - piano
Harry Miller - bass
Louis Moholo - drums

1. Call [Ismite Is Might]
2. Mra > Andromeda
3. Do It > Think of Something [inc]
4. The Serpent's Kindly Eye [inc]

TT: 36:31

Sound: A-/B+
Lineage: FM > ? > CDR > EAC > WAV > FLAC

My guess for second tenor is only because BoB usually had two tenors in the line-up. It's not based on aural evidence. For that, I'd have to dig up my CDR and play this show again...

I assume the dates to be correct now, as the guy who mentioned #4 being from the following night did not correct my date posted in the comments over there.
If anyone knows more about the location or if this concert was part of some festival etc, please post it in the comments over there!

More BoB to follow right here, I think, I hope...

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Volker Kriegel - Hamburg, January 26, 1973 (NDR Jazz Workshop)

Another scheduled post - this shall delight some of the fans of the great MPS blow (see my link list). No time to do much of a write-up, but this once again is a dime show that I fixed and added full info to. Hope some of you will enjoy! Kriegel did some rather crappy and cheap "fusion" or rather muzak, I guess, later on, but for this show, he's in fast company!


Volker Kriegel, Berlin 1971 (photo: Karlheinz Klüter)

Volker Kriegel - NDR Jazz Workshop #85
Hamburg (Germany), NDR Funkhaus, Studio 10
January 26, 1973

Stan Sulzman - saxophone, flute
Zbigniew Seifert - violin
John Taylor - electric piano
Volker Kriegel - electric & acoustic guitars
Peter Warren - cello
Eberhard Weber - bass, bass guitar
Joe Nay - drums
Peter Giger - percussion

1. Missing Link (Kriegel) 10:29
2. Three Or Two In One (Kriegel) 10:59
3. Hoe Up and Down (Kriegel) 2:02 [VK/ZS duo]
4. Between The Seasons (Kriegel) 8:36
5. Lastic Plemon (Kriegel) 3:40
6. Blue Titmouse (Kriegel) 9:49
7. Forty Colours (Weber) 4:17
8. A Piece with a Chord from a Yorkshire Terrier (Kriegel) 16:32

TT: 66:28

Sound: A-
Source: Radio broadcast > ? > cassette > ? > CDR
Lineage: CDR from trade > EAC > TLH > FLAC
Seeded on dime (with just Hamburg and no line-up/setlist)
Edited by ubu (corrected marks, separated #3/#4 and #5/#6, added info)

Note: Electric Blue (18:26) was commercially released on "NDR Jazzworkshop '73" (NDR 0666 238)

Friday, October 10, 2008

Radio Jazz Group Stuttgart - March & April 1980 (7/7)

Another interesting combination of musicians to end the series - French, Scandinavian, American, German... quite a mix if you look at the line-up!

Here are the previously posted shows

Radio Jazz Group Stuttgart - February 1974 (1/7)
Radio Jazz Group Stuttgart - February 27, 1976 (2/7)
Radio Jazz Group Stuttgart - April 9, 1976 (3/7)
Radio Jazz Group Stuttgart - March 3, 1977 (4/7)
Radio Jazz Group Stuttgart - June 13, 1977 (5/7)

Post #6 is just below.

Again, links are hidden down here, this is posted on schedule while I'm still away.

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Radio Jazz Group Stuttgart
Stuttgart (Germany), Villa Berg



#1-3: March 31, 1980
Radio Jazz Group Stuttgart + Michel Air Wolfgang Engstfeld Perspective


Wolfgang Dauner - piano
Palle Daniellson - bass
Leroy Low - drums
Didier Lockwood - violin

#4: April 25, 1980
Radio Jazz Group Stuttgart + Toto Blanke's Electric Circus


Norbert Dömling - bass
Heinrich Hock - drums
Charlie Mariano - soprano sax
Trilok Gurtu - percussion
Johannes Faber - trumpet
Wolfgang Dauner - piano
Toto Blanke - guitar


1. Continuous Flow (7:20)
2. Changes (7:43)
3. Blues For Ede (7:22)
4. Bolero Torcello (23:32) [inc]

TT: 45:59

Sound: A/A-
Lineage: FM > Revox A76 Tuner > Revox A77 (1/2 track, 7 1/2 ips)
March 2007: Revox A77 (1/2 track, 7 1/2 ips) > Audiophile 2496 > CDWave > Flac frontend

Friday, October 03, 2008

Radio Jazz Group Stuttgart - June 8, 1978 (6/7)

Next one in my series of shares by the Radio Jazz Group Stuttgart, led by pianist Wolfgang Dauner. This finds Dauner in a most interesting setting: some of the Dutch guys (Tristan Honsinger, Altena), Rüdiger Carl and Hans Reichel, as well as Irène Schweizer and the enigmatic Stephan Wittwer, plus poet Anton Bruhin. Quite a mix!

Here are the previously posted shows:

Radio Jazz Group Stuttgart - February 1974 (1/7)
Radio Jazz Group Stuttgart - February 27, 1976 (2/7)
Radio Jazz Group Stuttgart - April 9, 1976 (3/7)
Radio Jazz Group Stuttgart - March 3, 1977 (4/7)
Radio Jazz Group Stuttgart - June 13, 1977 (5/7)



The links are hidden below - don't state where they are in the comments, please, just have a close look! I don't want to invite any trolls while I'm away!

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Carl-Reichel-Wittwer-Schweizer-Dauner-Honsinger-Altena-Bruhin
Radio Studio SWR Villa Berg, Stuttgart (DE)
June 8, 1978


Rüdiger Carl - tenor sax, clarinet, bass clarinet, flute, piccolo, accordion, percussion
Hans Reichel - violin
Stephen Wittwer - guitar
Irène Schweizer - piano, percussion
Wolfgang Dauner - piano
Tristan Honsinger - cello, voice
Maarten van Regteren Altena - bass, cello
Anton Bruhin - voice, harmonica, percussion

Dieter Zimmerle (fm announcer)

1. Zichtels Wunsch (poem: Bruhin) > Steel Five (15:34)
2. FM Introduction (Dieter Zimmerle) (1:05)
3. Ouvertüre [omit WD] > S'Zehnerli (33:38)
4. FM Closing announcement (0:25)

TT: 50:43

Sound: A-
Lineage: FM broadcast > cassette (unknown gen) > CD-R > .wav > flac (level 6)