Joe Zawinul - Graz 2002

Joe Zawinul was one of the greats, I was sad when he left us, really sad. Never managed to catch him live while I had time to do so.

This one's at a low bitrate (160 kbs), but it's fun and it features Otto Lechner and Maria João sitting in with the Zawinul Syndicate, so it just has to be good, right?



Joe Zawinul Syndicate & Guests
Jazzsommer Graz
Graz (Austria), Mariahilferplatz
August 2, 2002

Joe Zawinul - keyboards, voice
Amit Chatterjee - guitar, voice
Etienne M'Bappé - electric bass, voice
Paco Sery - drums, voice
Manolo Badrena - percussion, voice

guests:
Maria João - voice (#5,6,8)
Otto Lechner - accordion (#6,8)

1. fm intro (0:54)
2. East 12th Street Band (9:15)
3. Lost Tribes (8:40)
4. dj comments (1:17)
5. Caico (5:51)
6. Oper (5:38)
7. dj comments II (0:21)
8. Rooftops of Vienna (18:54)
9. unknown (3:52) [inc]

TT: 54:48

Sound: A/A-
Source: Radio Steiermark, re-broadcast / 2009-05-11
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Actually there have been three shows at Graz by this band, 2002-08-01, 2002-08-02, 2002-08-03.
See: http://www.zawinulonline.org/tour_dates/2002_tour_dates
According to "rillenheini" (best wishes and thanks!) the first two evenings were recorded by Austrian radio station "ORB". This recording has been made on the 2nd of August, as ORB-DJ Ernst Grohotolsky has told to "rillenheini". The setlist also stems from Mister Grohotolsky.

Max Nagl - Mainz 1999

Max Nagl is one of the more interesting characters around on the European jazz and music scene of the past years, composing for stage plays, dance and more.

Nagl, born 1960, has released a string of intriguing albums, the latest of them mostly on Hat Hut, including his fine project "Big Four" (with Steven Bernstein). Nagl has collaborated with novelist Franzobel, with Noel Akchoté (who's also a member of Big Four), Lol Coxhill, Austrian accordion derwish Otto Lechner, singer Julie Tippetts, and has dedicated albums to the music of Eric Dolphy and Ornette Coleman, as well as Robert Wyatt.

This post features his quartet with Josef Novotny at the piano, Anne Harvey on violin, and Patrice Héral on drums and percussion.



Max Nagl
11th Annual Akut Festival
Mainz (Germany)
January 23, 1999

Max Nagl - alto & baritone sax
Josef Novotny - piano
Anne Harvey - violin
Patrice Heral - drums, vocals

1. [Pommdeurs Falt?] > Melange à Trois > Ann MN (6:44)
2. Pot-Pourri (7:23)
3. Tranquillo > Ann MN (4:59)
4. Lump > Ann MN (6:44)
5. Nosferatu > Meantime > Ann MN (12:44)
6. Kirtag > Ann MN (5:36)
7. }Nachtblende > Ann MN (4:29)
8. Bonsoir (6:40)
9. band intros (1:09)
10. 96er > [Push Punnyend?] > Kur > Ann MN (9:28)
11. 's Vaserl (4:55) [encore]

All compositions by Max Nagl

TT: 70:57

Sound: A
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Erich Kleinschuster Sextett (w/Harry Pepl) - Wie 1976

Here's a post-script to the two posts about Harry Pepl. This is a concert by Erich Kleinschuster's great Sextett.

Kleinschuster was born in Graz in 1930. After studying law and music (trombone and piano), he played in local bands and radio orchestras. In 1958, he was part of the International Youth Band at Newport Jazz Festival, which led to his decision to become a professional musician. In the sixties, he played with Friedrich Gulda and the Clarke-Boland Big Band, and 1966 brought to the fore his own Sextett, featuring among others Fritz Pauer, Erich Bachträgl, Jimmy Woode, Hans Salomon, and such guest stars as Art Farmer, Carmell Jones, Joe Henderson, Clifford Jordan, Jimmy Heath and Slide Hampton.
In 1971, Kleinschuster founded the ORF Big Band (Austrian Radio Big Band), which he led for ten years. In those years, he also appeared with Peter Herbolzheimer's Rhythm Combination & Brass as well as George Gruntz' Concert Jazz Band.
In 1981, he got a call from the University of Graz, where he holds a professorship. From 1998 on, he organized the Grazer Jazz Sommer.

So it should be quite clear by now, that Kleinschuster is one of THE main characters of Austrian modern jazz. He also programmed many a jazz radio show, including the ones from which this music of his own band was taken.

Austrian Universal has released two very good 2CD sets with music by the Kleinschuster Sextett, Vol. 1 with guests Carmell Jones, Joe Henderson and Clifford Jordan (rec. 1968/1969), Vol. 2 with guests Art Farmer, Slide Hampton and Jimmy Heath (rec. 1968/1971). Both are highly recommended! (dusty groove)

I'm not sure if Kleinschuster can actually be heard there, but Universal has also more recently reissued a box set of Peter Herbolzheimer's MPS & Polydor albums (amazon.de).

The edition of the Sextet in this particular concert is partly electric, and features the great Carl Drewo on saxophone (another musician connected to the Clarke-Boland Big Band for a while in the Sixties), and Fritz Pauer on both acoustic and electric piano. Pauer is another mainstay of Austrian modern jazz, with his own albums (some on MPS, for instance), a long tenure with Art Farmer (who called him his favourite pianist), and long (musical) friendships with many of jazz' greatest. I had the joy to catch him live backing Sheila Jordan when in Vienna some time back.

There's some great music to be heard here - go for it even if you're completely unfamiliar with the musicians!



Erich Kleinschuster Sextett
Wien (Austria), Konzerthaus, Mozartsaal
October 4, 1976

Erich Kleinschuster - trombone
Carl Drewo - tenor & soprano sax
Fritz Pauer - piano & electric piano
Harry Pepl - guitar
Heinz Jäger - electric bass
Fritz Ozmec - drums

CD1/49:06
1. Autumn Lady (Pauer) / Autumn Air (Pauer) 18:44
2. Peach Cup (Pauer) 10:07
3. Maurische Anekdoten (Kleinschuster) 20:13

CD2/32:16
1. Selbstgespräch (Kleinschuster) 9:58 [cuts in]
2. Symphony For A Lady (Kleinschuster) 23:16

TT: 81:22

Sound: A-
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This came in two parts, two seeds on dime: #3,5,1 and #2,4

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"Selbstgespräch" started beneath the fm intro, hence there are a few seconds missing and a quick fade-in at the beginning.

complete setlist:
1. Autumn lady (Pauer) 11:56 >
2. Autumn air (Pauer) 6:36
3. Brave knight (Pauer) 13:13 - MISSING
4. Peach cup (Pauer) 10:46
5. Maurische Anekdoten (Kleinschuster) 20:19
6. Selbstgespräch (Kleinschuster) 10:49
7. Symphony for a lady (Kleinschuster) 21:58
8. D-E-E-G (Kleinschuster) 15:11 - MISSING

Harry Pepl / Werner Pirchner / Adelhard Roidinger - Austria Drei - 1978/81

There's been little interest in the previous post featuring the music of Harry Pepl and Werner Pirchner. That's a pity! Jazz music is a niche art anyway, and it makes me all the sadder that even the lucky few who found out and were let in on the secret, even those don't check out something of which they haven't heard...

Anyway, here's the promised addition, another pair of short shows featuring the "Austria Drei", which consists of the JazzZwio plus Adelhard Roidinger, and despite its name ("drei" is German for "three"), a drummer, unknown on the first date, Alvin Queen on the second date.

Drummer Todd Canedy is on the group's studio release on Ego Records (details on discogs), recorded almost one and a half year after the first of the sessions included here.

If anyone can fill in some details, please post a comment!

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Austria Drei
Innsbruck (Austria), Studio
February 1978


Harry Pepl - guitar
Werner Pirchner - vibes
Adelhard Roidinger - bass
unknown (poss. Todd Canedy) - drums

1. Philipp (7:07)
2. Wirf an! (6:33)
3. Einsiedler Silence (8:50)


Austria Drei
Wiener Festwochen
Wien (Austria), Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts
June 1, 1981

Harry Pepl - guitar
Werner Pirchner - vibes
Adelhard Roidinger - bass
Alvin Queen - drums

4. Gloriatio (Paul Angerer) 16:03
5. Lonely Frog (Roidinger) > Einsiedler Silence (Pepl) 22:59 [FM voiceover 22:10-end]


TT: 61:34

Sound: A-
Source #1-3: Private recording, Tape from Harry Pepl
Source #4-5: Austrian radio broadcast (1981 - Erich Kleinschuster, host)


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Harry Pepl / Werner Pirchner "JazzZwio" - 1977/80/83

Here's a compilation of four shows by the legendary duo of Harry Pepl and Werner Pirchner.
Pepl died much too early in 2005. Check out the nice photo gallery on Pirchner's website, dedicated to his late friend.

These were shared by a kind seeder over on dime, who's a big fan of Pepl. The music is indeed pretty good, and I urge you to check it out, even if you have never heard Pepl or Pirchner's name!
(I urge you even more as I'm consciously slowing down my posting tempo, hoping to allow people to get more of the music and actually find time to digest it, too!)



Pepl Pirchner JazzZwio

Harry Pepl - guitar
Werner Pirchner - vibes, marimba

CD1/59:10

[A] - Innsbruck (Austria) - 1977 [26:56]
1. Stage Intro (0:09)
2. unknown (5:23)
3. Big Paul der Fünfer (Pepl-Pirchner) 7:32
4. unknown (5:04)
5. unknown (8:44)

[B] - Wien (Austria), Jazzfrühling - 1980 (prob. at Sofiensäle) [32:14]
6. Gegenwind (6:50)
7. Der Tag, an dem wir erfuhren, dass Paul Desmond gestorben war (Pepl-Pirchner)
[aka Big Paul der Fünfer (Remember Desmond)] (12:23)
8. Drein sein, beinander bleib'n (trad./Pirchner) 6:03
9. Wirf an (Pirchner) 6:54 [inc]

CD2/57:12

[C] - Wien (Austria), ORF Studio 2 - October 26, 1980 [15:42]
1. Stage Intro (1:09)
2. Rot Grau-Rot (Pepl-Pirchner) 5:07 >
3. Big Paul der Fünfer (Remember Desmond) (Pepl-Pirchner) 9:24

[D] - Wien (Austria), Jazzspelunke - March 23, 1983 [41:30]
with: Marc Johnson - bass; Joris Dudli - drums
4. Hos'nt Raga (Pirchner) 15:14
5. The Carter (Pirchner) 13:00 [dropout @ 7:37, from tape-flip, 5 sec missing]
6. Das Auge des Maulwurfs (Pepl) 13:16

TT: 116:22

Sound: ranging between A/A- and A-/B+

Sources:
[A] private audience recording (tape from Harry Pepl)
[B-D] radio broadcasts

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Paul Bley & Wolfgang Puschnig - Saalfelden

Another one endangered of deletion before I come around posting it...

Canadian born pianist Paul Bley is of course well known as one of the most important jazz pianists to emerge around 1960.


Saxophonist Wolfgang Puschnig hails from Austria and is one of the more important jazz voices there and in Europe. He has played and recorded regularly with Carla Bley, the Vienna Art Orchestra, Linda Sharrock or the late great Ernst Jandl (or was that Elnst Jandr?). Other collaborators include Hans Koller (subject of two other posts here and here), Harry Sokal (the photo from 1988 shows Puschnig with him), Uli Scherrer, Nguyên Lê, Mark Feldman, and reguarly also Jamaaladeen Tacuma (together they form the duo "Gemini-Gemini"), and he has done more than two dozen of albums as leader or co-leader, including the great "Austrian Songs - Ob'n und Unt'n" (Universal, 2002) where he adapted traditional songs and melodies for a trio/quartet that also included Klaus Dickbauer, Herbert Joos and Michel Godard.

In short: definitely a musician worth checking out!
And right here you get the chance to do so...


Paul Bley & Wolfgang Puschnig
Jazzfestival Saalfelden
August 2001

Paul Bley - piano
Wolfgang Puschnig - alto sax (1,2,3,6,8) & flute (5)

1. Blues for Nothing (7:42)
2. Blast from the Past (7:12)
3. On (6:36)
4. Bebop improvisation (3:49) [p-solo]
5. Ida Lupino (8:15)
6. Peace (4:25)
7. Improvisation (10:38) [p-solo]
8. Improvisation (6:53) [inc]

TT: 55:33

Sound: A/A-
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Hans Koller - Rarities from the Eighties

Next one from the dime party - Some background from wiki, for those who never heard or Koller:

Hans (Antonio Hans Cyrill) Koller (February 12, 1921 - December 22, 2003) was one of the best known Austrian Jazz musicians and an abstract painter.

Koller was born in Vienna. A saxophone prodigy, he immediately impressed the faculty of the Vienna Music Academy upon his arrival at the age of 14. Within a few years he was playing professionally in swing and dance bands. In 1941 Koller was drafted into the Nazi army and spent most time as prisoner of war in a US-American camp. Following his release in 1946 he founded a band called the Hot Club Vienna.

Later Koller performed with Horst Winter's band before moving to Germany, where he came into his own individual style. After some time working in drummer Freddie Brocksieper's septet, Koller formed his quartet with pianist Jutta Hipp, bassist Shorty Roeder and drummer Karl Sanner. The group was one of Europe's most popular units in the early 1950s (recording Hans Is Hip, 1952; "5 stars" by Down Beat). Trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff became member of his band in 1953. In 1959 his quartet included guitarist Attila Zoller and two US-American expatriates, drummer Kenny Clarke and bassist Oscar Pettiford, were members of the quartet.

Koller had frequent contact with American jazzmen beginning with arranger Eddie Sauter, with whom he worked in the Baden-Baden Radio Orchestra. Gigs followed with Zoot Sims, Dizzy Gillespie, Lee Konitz, Stan Kenton, and even Benny Goodman, with whom Koller played at the 1958 World's Fair in Brussels. That same year he became the musical director of Radio Hamburg's Jazz Workshop. He was acclaimed best soloist at the 1960 jazz festival Antibes.

His trio recording with Zoller and French pianist Martial Solal, brought Koller further critical acclaim. He occasionally worked on interdisciplinary projects as well, like his 1968 ballet, New York City. Koller was based in Hamburg through the 1960s, working as musical director of the municipal theatre in 1968/1969. In 1970 he returned to Austria and began exploring free jazz and fusion music with Zbigniew Seifert in his Free Sound Ensemble. Koller's subsequent projects included a trio with Zoller and Roland Hanna, soloing a brass ensemble International Brass Company, different duos, mainstream combos, and an all-sax unit.

Koller retired from performing music in 1995, opting to concentrate on painting. In gratitude for his years of service, Austria named its national jazz prize after him in 1996.

Hans Koller - Rarities from the Eighties

Hans Koller (ts), Fritz Pauer (p,keys)
1. unknown (Erik Satie) 15:54
2. Naima (John Coltrane) 5:21
Recorded in the early 1980s
#1 from Klaus Schulz's private archives.
#2 was recorded for Walter Richard Langer's "Bourbon Street" TV show, for a Coltrane programme.

Hans Koller (ts)
3. Lush Life (Billy Strayhorn) 3:27
Private recording, live in a club in Vienna, early Eighties.

Hans Koller (ts), Attila Zoller (g)
4. All the Things You Are (Jerome Kern) 10:05
Recorded February 12, 1983 at "Willy's Rumpelkammer", a club in Vienna.

TT: 33:50

Sound: A- (#1/2), A-/B+ (#3/4 - low hum)
Source: OE 1 broadcast

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Notes:

I recorded this off my mono radio, but these are low-fi recordings anyway, so I hope you won't mind!

the remaining tracks two shown in the log are commercially released!

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).

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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
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*) 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.