25 July 2011

MISHA MENGELBERG KWARTET "DRIEKUSMAN TOTAL LOSS" (VARAJAZZ, 1964)





Here is another early recording from Misha Mengelberg and Han Bennink.
Joined for three tracks by Gary Peacock, who only five month earlier participated along Sunny Murray in the seminal sessions which produced Albert Ayler's "Spiritual Unity" .




MISHA MENGELBERG KWARTET "DRIEKUSMAN TOTAL LOSS"


Misha Mengelberg, piano
Piet Noordijk, alto saxophone
Gary Peacock, bass (1 - 3)
Rob Langereis, bass (4)
Han Bennink, drums


1. Driekusman Total Loss (M.Mengelberg) 10:08
2. Nature Boy (Eden Ahbez) 10:42
3. If I Had You (T.Shapiro/J.Campbell/R.Connelly) 11:38
4. Remember Herbie (M.Mengelberg) 08:32


Recorded in Hilversum on 4th December (track 1-3)
and 28th June (track 4), 1964.

VARAJAZZ 210 - ...and all that Jazz volume 10

(lp rip)

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25 comments:

  1. Ernst Grgo Nebhuth25 July 2011 at 01:32:00 CEST

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  2. Wallofsound25 July 2011 at 08:35:00 CEST

    Most interesting.

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  3. riccardo25 July 2011 at 10:45:00 CEST

    @ onxi

    congratulations, you've just published the post No.1000 on IS :
    you have won a nice gadget kinabalu will be happy to send you straight home!
    Joking apart, I think that Misha is perfect for this important aim.

    p.s.
    we still have to do something for A True Jazz Legend.

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  4. Daniel Cecil25 July 2011 at 11:58:00 CEST

    Holy Moly! Gary Peacock too? I'm in heaven.

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  5. Anonymous25 July 2011 at 23:57:00 CEST

    Thx a lot Bil Dixon. These early MMs are really appreciated. Hm, already then MM couldn't play without his fag. Must have leather lips by now
    GG

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  6. SHOON26 July 2011 at 00:45:00 CEST

    Congrats on 1000.

    Very rare and the real deal too.

    Thanks

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  7. JD26 July 2011 at 02:32:00 CEST

    I raise my glass to for this excellent post, onx, and to celebrate along with all the other folks the continuing high quality of your blog. Nice one!!!

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  8. SlimStew28 July 2011 at 20:19:00 CEST

    Thanks for this! Peacock with these cats-what a treat.

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  9. Sami Pekkola28 July 2011 at 22:10:00 CEST

    Thanks!! Really nice and interesting period before wilder years of free jazz. Mr. Peacock's gentle touch is just amazing.

    Does anyone know are there any other known treasure's by Mr. Peacock outside Ayler's group from mid sixties?

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  10. Anonymous31 July 2011 at 10:42:00 CEST

    Thanks very much for this! Much appreciated!

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  11. Anonymous1 August 2011 at 17:48:00 CEST

    yes, big thanks, wow, Piet had completely absorbed Dolphy's bag and this already in 64. I had to double check that the first cut really wasn't an Eric track. Great solo.

    red cloud

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  12. SANDRONE15 March 2012 at 20:09:00 CET

    nuovi link

    tipregotipregotiprego

    misha è il mio PIANISTA PREFERITO

    quando lo ritrovo questo discoooooo

    (grazie)

    :D

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  13. SANDRONE20 March 2012 at 02:32:00 CET

    lo sto scaricando
    spero tanto che tornino anche gli altri
    grazie infinite !

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  14. Ernst Grgo Nebhuth11 April 2014 at 09:05:00 CEST

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  15. -Otto-12 April 2014 at 19:19:00 CEST

    Thank you, onxidlib, for the re-up!

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  16. QPjr10 January 2015 at 06:12:00 CET

    there are some who wonder how Free Jazz spread so fast across the Atlantic, or was it an independent happening...etc...
    if i were an epidemiologist, i'd be looking at gary peacock as "patient zero" and wanting a look inside his suitcase for all the infectious materials he must've brought. cough, cough, sniffle. i bet he told these Dutch all the secrets!!
    A wonderful session, this is! Great sound, too.

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  17. Ernst Grgo Nebhuth10 January 2015 at 10:53:00 CET

    A bit background to Gary Peacock...his first known recordings were with Austrian musicians (or Hungarian in the case of Attila Zoller) made in Germany in 1957.
    His second EP was with Max Brüel - a quite famous Danish architect who was also a formidable sax-player (especially on baritone) and Zoller also in March '57.
    A few days (or very few weeks)later he had a tour with Albert Mangelsdorff, Zoller, Bud Shank and Bob Cooper. This was later issued on Lonehill Jazz.
    In May the same year he had at least one concert with Hans Koller, Zoller and Shank - also on Lonehill Jazz.
    His first offical recording under the leadership of an American musician (vocalist Gary Crosby) was also in May '57. It was released on Pacific but recorded in Remagen, Germany.
    His first known recording in the States happened in Hollywood (March 1958) with Bud Shank > "Holiday in Brazil" a.s.o.
    I shall post the rip of the Brüel EP soon....

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    1. QPjr10 January 2015 at 16:35:00 CET

      Ahh! So, what you're suggesting is that this "Gerdy Peakoff" is actually...a DOUBLE AGENT!!!
      No, that's great information, onxidlib. I'd love to read an autobiography from Mr. Peacock. From Idaho to Europe to California to New York to Japan... Off the radar many times but always working... I seem to remember a darling section in the classic Penguin guide where they assumed Gary had dropped out of music until "Tales of Another," but, lo, there he was steadily putting out in Japan.
      Anyway, thanks again, onxidlib.

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  18. Ernst Grgo Nebhuth10 January 2015 at 18:36:00 CET

    Double agent (double bass;-) - kind of I would say.
    See f.e. his stint with Bill Evans which "culminated" in a recording on Dec. 18, 1963 and some months later the trio with Albert Ayler in July 10th, 1964... and more in this vein.
    See also this interesting article for 50th anniversary of "Spiritual Unity" here
    BTW - more early GP soon

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  19. QPjr11 January 2015 at 01:43:00 CET

    Thank you for that article link. It fills out some of what I learned from PaulBley's book "Stopping Time." He really put Peacock on a pedestal and Scott LaFaro in a practice room. Swapping amphetamines for coffee! One can't separate life from music (this music, anyway), that's for sure!
    Funny that he happens to quote Misha!
    I've long felt that Bley's "Turning Point" from early '64 w/Peacock, Gilmore, Motian stands as a real "missing link" document where everybody, still so engrained in playing in the old ways, is audibly chopping and hacking, slapping and tripping over each other just to get OUT (Gilmore, as ever, gracefully skipping over top). Interesting, too, what Peacock says about having to experience Ayler live to know what he was truly about. I gather he was more personable than his recordings alone might suggest. But, then, I'm also reminded of something MilfordGraves said; that he saw, one night, Albert blow a hole through the wall of a club, just with the power of his sound. So, a further question for the history books... :-)

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  20. Ernst Grgo Nebhuth29 June 2019 at 09:17:00 CEST

    1fichier

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  21. francisco santos30 June 2019 at 10:52:00 CEST

    GREAT CHOICE!...
    BIG THX!...

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  22. Brewing Luminous6 April 2020 at 18:16:00 CEST

    Huge thanks!

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  23. Danilo DT8 February 2021 at 18:45:00 CET

    It's possible to have the link for this record? Thx Danilo from Italy

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  24. Nick8 February 2021 at 20:05:00 CET

    The link is three comments above yours, Danilo DT. It's still active.

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