30 July 2008

Miroslav Vitous Quartet - Live Hamburg 1980


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MIROSLAV VITOUS QUARTET
Live at 'Onkel Pö' in Hamburg, Germany, 1980-01-31

LINEUP
Miroslav Vitous -b
John Surman -sax,bcl
Kenny Kirkland -p
Jon Christensen -d
TRACKS
01. SILVER LAKE 12.24
02. WHEN FACE GETS PALE 9.34
03. REVISED EDITION 15.48
04. MOUNTAIN IN THE CLOUDS 14.10
Total Time: 51.57 min
Vitous of course is perhaps most noted as being a founder member of Weather Report, so was in the vanguard of early fusion. He also played in the excellent trio with Chick Corea and Roy Haynes, and more lately with Jan Garbarek.
I don't know whether this quartet played together often, but on this recording they really get it together. The first track is reminiscent of WR, Surman even sounding remarkably like Wayne Shorter. The third track starts off with a ferocious soprano solo from Surman, and turns into one of the numbers from an early album of his, I don't recall which one.
I'd never heard of Kenny Kirkland, but apparently he played with Wynton and Branford Marsalis among others and featured on Vitous's ECM recordings. He had a drugs problem and died at an early age in 1998.
This is a very good quality FM broadcast. Thanks to ricola for seeding. Links in comments.
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11 comments:

  1. Boromir30 July 2008 at 10:09:00 CEST

    MP3

    http://rapidshare.com/files/133282573/MVQ_MP3.rar

    FLAC

    http://rapidshare.com/files/133310000/MVQ_FLAC.part1.rar
    http://rapidshare.com/files/133333214/MVQ_FLAC.part2.rar
    http://rapidshare.com/files/133358373/MVQ_FLAC.part3.rar
    http://rapidshare.com/files/133365216/MVQ_FLAC.part4.rar

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  2. Anonymous1 August 2008 at 21:39:00 CEST

    Heavens! Not a single comment? Then let me speak up! This is a fine set, all four guys being in excellent form. OK, it's not fire-in-a-petshop music, but let's give the poor creatures a break!

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  3. ceb2 August 2008 at 01:39:00 CEST

    I'm very happy to have some more Kenny Kirkland and John Surman playing in my collection. Thanks so much.

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  4. Anonymous5 August 2008 at 02:35:00 CEST

    ... and don't forget Jon Christensen who never marred an ECM session (unlike Keith Jarrett AKA "Der Mutterer")

    thanks!

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  5. Anonymous16 August 2008 at 07:39:00 CEST

    Kenny Kirkland was (in)famously part of Sting's post-Police groups. His solo on the title track to Bring on the Night totally scrambled my teenaged brain and provided a crucial "point of departure" in my explorations of jazz and improvised musics.

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  6. Anonymous10 January 2009 at 19:22:00 CET

    Kenny is my favourite pianist, thank you for this gift.

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  7. Anonymous15 March 2009 at 12:01:00 CET

    Thank you. Nice band, really listening forward to this.

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  8. Anonymous26 June 2011 at 16:56:00 CEST

    Thanks for this. MV was one of the first ECM artists I heard around the end of the 70s.

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  9. Mattman19 October 2024 at 04:05:00 CEST

    Please ! A re-up of this one would be much appreciated... Kenny Kirkland is gone too soon, and with this amazing band it was the real point of departure for him...

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  10. Ernst Grgo Nebhuth19 October 2024 at 09:26:00 CEST

    Hi Mattman - this I do not have - same for most of your recent requests.

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  11. Mattman19 October 2024 at 12:33:00 CEST

    Hi Ernst,
    Thanks for your answer, and also for all the magnificent music you're sharing with us...
    Maybe someone else ?

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