RADU MALFATTI, PHIL WACHSMANN, ULRICH GUMPERT, TONY OXLEY LONDON 1981

 

Radu Malfatti   trombone
Phil Wachsmann   violin
Ulrich Gumpert   piano
Tony Oxley   drums

1. Improvisation  29:36

live at the Pied Bull, Islington, London
14th August 1981

Thanks to the original taper and to Bozo the Clown.

TONY OXLEY'S CELEBRATION ORCHESTRA "TOMORROW IS HERE" (DOSSIER, 1985)

A veritable all-star band - an all too rare recording by one of the greatest living drummers.

Subtle and burning - reeds and strings - a great plethora of percussive meandering - a classic!




TONY OXLEY'S CELEBRATION ORCHESTRA "TOMORROW IS HERE"

Johannes Bauer, trombone
Gerd Dudek, soprano & tenor saxophone
Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky, clarinet & alto saxophone
Larry Stabbins, soprano & tenor saxophone
Ulrich Gumpert, piano
Phil Wachsmann, violin
Alex Kolkowski, violin
Paolo Damiani, piccolo bass
Marcio Mattos, cello
Barry Guy, bass
Ali Haurand, bass
Willi Kellers, drums
Nigel Morris, drums
Ettore Fioravanti, drums
Christoph Haberer, drums
Tony Oxley, leader & drums

1. Introduction 00:24
2. Invitation to Karlovyvary 18:41
3. Third Triad 01:56
4. Continuation of Third Triad 22:50


Recorded : October 31st, 1985, live at the Philharmonie in Berlin.

DOSSIER ST 7507

VARIOUS "JAZZ ASPEKTE" (NOVA, 1973-75)

This is a rather unusual release for the German Democratic Republic.
Generally the label NOVA was for contemporary classic, entertainment and experimental releases.
But for some reason the music on this LP was not issued on the label AMIGA which had a series called AMIGA Jazz.
Further I would like to point out that the given bassist for track B2 is most likely not Blazeowsky but Christoph Niemann.
Niemann is credited for this role on all three editions of the LP which was solely reserved for FEZ (AMIGA 8 55 585, 1978).  And the title which is included on this LP is the same as on the FEZ LP/CD.

Not only was this a minor bummer but also the music played here by the Rundfunk-Tanzorchester Berlin. Nothing wrong with it for sure but as NOVA was a label reserved also for experimental music I expected something more at the margins. But expectations aren't necessarily the best guide for enjoyment. So have fun as I had after I've accepted what's on this disc ;-)

And finally here's a request. The only other recording by FEZ is on an LP released in 1979 by the
Czechoslovakian label OPUS. The festival sampler "Bratislavské Džezové Dni 1976" contains more than 15 minutes of an otherwise unavailable composition by this special group.

Gumpert's trio and the ensemble of Hubert Katzenbeier (here not on trombone!) are in fine form - as expected....



A1. Grüsse Von Buddy (Nicht Kaputt - Speziell An Achim - An Alle)  13:26

Rundfunk-Tanzorchester Berlin:
Joachim Graswurm, flugelhorn
Friedrich Schlegel, Gerhard Pabst, Heinz Becker, trumpet
Freddy Lehmann, Götz Geitner, Horst Schmidt, Hubert Katzenbeier, trombone
Helmut Wenzel, bass clarinet, baritone saxophone
Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky, Gerhard Miehatsch, clarinet, alto saxophone
Werner Schmidt, clarinet, tenor saxophone
Fritz Heimbach, flute, tenor saxophone
Klaus Hille, guitar
Horst Pawliczak, piano
Klaus Koch, bass
Wolfgang Winkler, drums
Siegfried Möhle, percussion
Günter Gollasch, leader
Friedhelm Schönfeld, composed, arranged

Recorded on 20.2.1975 Berliner Rundfunk, GDR.

A2. Wiesenlied  5:39

Ulrich Gumpert Trio:
Manfred Hering, alto saxophone
Ulrich Gumpert, piano
Günter Sommer, drums
(composed & arranged by the group)

Recorded 17.7.1973 Jazzwerkstatt des Berliner Rundfunks, GDR.

B1. Blues Hier Und Jetzt  10:28

Hubert Katzenbeier Quintett:
Hubert Katzenbeier, electric violin, composed, arranged
Konrad Körner, tenor saxophone
Ulrich Swillms, electric piano
Henning Protzmann, bass
Wolfgang Schneider, drums

Recorded 29.8.1974, public Studio-Jazzkonzert by "Stimme der DDR" at the Mensa of the Universität Rostock, DGR.


B2. Sonntag Im Altweibersommer 8:14

Fez:
Conrad Bauer, trombone, composed, arranged
Hannes Zerbe, piano
Peter Blazeowsky, bass
Peter Gröning, drums

Recorded 13.1.1975 AMIGA-Studio, Berlin, GDR.


NOVA 885083 (GDR, 1975)
(vinyl rip)

Bassist for track B2 is possibly Christoph Niemann

ULRICH GUMPERT QUINTET "MARKOWITZ' BLUES"

Here we have Gumpert's contribution to the soundtrack(s) for a famous and long going 'crime' series - quiet popular in Germany.
The model for the music is obviously Miles Davis' "Ascenseur pour l'échafaud" (Elevator to the Gallows) - but it has clearly it's own vibe.....and hey - what a line-up!


Heinz Becker, trumpet & fluegelhorn
Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky, tenor saxophone
Ulrich Gumpert, piano
Klaus Koch, bass (9 to 35)
Matthias Bauer, bass (1 to 8, 36 to 39)
Günter Sommer, drums


Markowitz Blues
01.     Take 1     3:32
02.     Take 2     1:11
03.     Take 3     1:13
04.     Take 4     1:55
05.     Take 5     0:55
06.     Take 6     1:40
07.     Take 7     1:39
08.     Take 8     4:02
   
Tod Einer Alten Frau
Markowitz 2
09.     Take 1     0:47
10.     Take 2     1:04
11.     Take 3     1:27
12.     Take 4     0:43
13.     Take 5     3:32
14.     Take 6     1:28
15.     Take 7     0:25
16.     Take 8     0:41
17.     Take 9     1:06

Smell A Rat
18.     Take 1     1:41
19.     Take 2     1:03

Markowitz 2
20.     Take 10     1:48
21.     Take 11     1:17
22.     Take 12     2:53

Die Sache Baryschna
Baryschna
23.     Take 1     0:35
24.     Take 2     2:34

The Fugitive
25.     Take 1     2:19
26.     Take 2     1:40
27.     Take 3     1:06

Baryschna
28.     Take 3     2:45
   
Geschlossene Akten
Markowitz 3
29.     Take 1     0:50
30.     Take 2     0:41
31.     Take 3     1:11
32.     Take 4     1:01
33.     Take 5     1:01

Smell A Rat Again
34.     Take 1     2:25

Markowitz 3
35.     Take 1     3:36
   
Endstation
Markowitz 4
36.     Take 1     1:02
37.     Take 2     0:56

Skate On Thin Ice
38.     Take 1     2:43

Markowitz 4
39.     Take 3     1:48

Tracks 1 to 8 recorded 9.6.1992 at FMP-Studio Berlin
Tracks 9 to 22 recorded 2.2.1993 at RBT-Studio Berlin
Tracks 23 to 28 recorded 19.5.1993 at RBT-Studio Berlin
Tracks 29 to 35 recorded 1.3.1994 at RBT-Studio Berlin
Tracks 36 to 39 recorded 21.12.1994 at RBT-Studio Berlin

BASIC 50002 (CD 1995)
 [OOP]

ULRICH GUMPERT WORKSHOP BAND "BERLIN, 1979"

Heinz Becker, trumpet
Conrad Bauer, trombone
Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky, alto saxophone, clarinet, flute
Manfred Hering, alto & tenor saxophone
Helmut Forsthoff, tenor saxophone
Ulrich Gumpert,piano
Klaus Koch, bass
Günter Sommer, drums

1. announcement WDR  00:25
2. unknown title 21:42
3. unknown title 11:51
4. unknown title 10:38
5. unknown title 04:51
6. unknown title 06:50

Recorded at the Berliner Jazztage, Berlin on November 1, 1979.


some covers you'll find at htakat's website here - scroll down, it's the picture(s) at the bottom...

ULRICH GUMPERT - RADU MALFATTI - TONY OXLEY "PEITZ, 1981"

This group made their sole LP for FMP ("Ach Was" - FMP 0870) less than three month before this concert in Peitz.



ULRICH GUMPERT - RADU MALFATTI - TONY OXLEY   "PEITZ, 1981"

Radu Malfatti, trombone
Ulrich Gumpert, piano
Tony Oxley, drums, percussion, violin


1. Unknown Title/Improvisation     35:11
2. Unknown Title/Improvisation     11:22


Recorded at Kino (Cinema), Peitz, DDR (former East-German Republic) on 20th June, 1981.

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Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky Octet - Live in Moers '79

Announced in the festival program as the E.L.Petrowsky Octet,
actually this group is the Ulrich Gumpert Workshop Band that
recorded two excellent albums for FMP (FMP 0600 - FMP 0710).
Perhaps, onxi may add some details.

Rec. live at the 8th Moers Jazz Festival, Moers, Germany,
on June 4, 1979 (mics recording)

Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky,soprano & alto sax,flute
Manfred Hering,alto & tenor sax
Helmut Forsthoff,tenor sax
Heinz Becker,trumpet,flugelhorn
Conrad Bauer,trombone
Ulrich Gumpert,piano
Klaus Koch,bass
Günter Sommer,drums

1. Aus Baby's Wunderhorn/Hilferuf einer Schnecke [G.Sommer](21:19)
2. Hahnenkopf/Echos von Karolinenhof/Unknown [U.Gumpert](24:46)
3. Blau Blusen Blues [C.Bauer](09:14)

Total Time 1:01:20

Hahnenkopf

PETER BRÖTZMANN - ULRICH GUMPERT - GÜNTER SOMMER "live at 'Ludwig Beck'" (Munich, 1990)

Here's an audience recording made in the building (right in the center of Munich) you can see above.

The picture (by Thomas Strobel) is from the now renovated facade. This exclusive departement store presented from the mid-eighties up to the nineties some concerts with Free Jazz!

Archie Shepp, Han Bennink, ROVA, Hal Russell's NRG Ensemble were among the musicians which played in this series.






PETER BRÖTZMANN - ULRICH GUMPERT - GÜNTER SOMMER


Peter Brötzmann, reeds
Ulrich Gumpert, piano
Günter Sommer, drums, percussion

CD 1

1. unknown title 20:08
2. unknown title 14:01
3. unknown title 12:30

CD 2

1. unknown title 38:31
2. unknown title 04:00


Recorded at 'Kulturforum', Ludwig Beck, Marienplatz 11, Munich, Germany.
Date : 25th April, 1990.

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ULRICH GUMPERT "RETROSPEKTIVE" 1972 (FLAC)

In the music (Jazz) of the DDR there was always a less broken rapport with german Folkmusic than in the west. There are exceptions - Ekkehard Jost comes to my mind.

But especially Ulrich Gumpert was and is the foremost exponent of a creative approach towards a modern kind of "Freefolk" - albeit for a minority.

The subtitle of the lp in my loose translation: "From german countryside - a suite made from german folksongs by Ulrich Gumpert".

ULRICH GUMPERT "RETROSPEKTIVE - 100 x Jazz in der Kammer"

(Aus Teutschen Landen - SUITE aus Motiven deutscher Volkslieder)
von Ulrich Gumpert

Helmut Forsthoff,ts
Manfred Schulze,bs
Uli Gumpert,p
Gerd Lübke,b
Christof Niemann,b
Günter Sommer,dr
Wolfgang Winkler,dr
Jochen Gleichmann,tb
KLaus Richter,tb
Conny Bauer,tb
Sieghardt Schubert,tb
Ernst-Ludwig Petrowky,ss
Manfred Hering,as

1. Es fiel ein Reif in der Frühlingsnacht
2. Tanz mir nicht mit meiner Jungfer Käthen
3. Der Maie, der Maie
4. Es saß ein schneeweiß Vögelein
5. Kommt ihr Gespielen

(Photo is by Detlev Schilke)


Link in comments.
Dance and sing.

GÜNTER SOMMER - ASCENSEUR POUR LE 28 (NATO 329 LP)

Günter Sommer and three old friends, or the Synopsis group who were central to an important development of the German Democratic Republic scene in the 70s. Here a decade later on what I percieve to be a mostly unknown French release on the Nato label, I was extremely lucky to find a copy in 2008 on the internet.

A snippet about the group from Heffley "...Such changes lay in the group's decision to use traditional German materials (mostly Medieval and folk) and aesthetics (lyrical, melodic, from the Romantic period) as the springboard, along the lines of Ornette Coleman's melodies, into free improvisation. They did this without the Western sense of sarcasm or irony, more with respect and affection. Unlike the West Germans, for them it was a reassertion, not a denial, of local identity beyond that imposed by the Russian occupiers, and of European roots that matched the African roots unearthed by their heroes from America."

I highly recommend it.

Ernst Ludwig Petrowsky, alto saxophone, clarinet and flute
Conrad Bauer, trombone
Ulrich Gumpert, piano
Günter Sommer, percussion

A1. Nelly Et Sylvain                     7:17   
A2. Daniel Und Seine Volvo             9:19   
A3. Makoko Aperçoit Monsieur Léon     4:44   
B1. Toute Pour Raoul                     9:16   
B2. Jiair Und J.E.                     8:34   
B3. Isabel Records Boxes             4:42

Recorded May 3 & 4, 1984 at Théâtre Dunois, Paris.

All music by Günter Sommer except B1 which is by the group.

NATO 329  (vinyl rip)