FRIEDRICH GULDA TRIO – Fata Morgana / Live At The Domicile (LP-1971)

Label: MPS Records – 21 20886-9

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album / Country: W. Germany / Released: 1971

Style: Fusion, Modal, Cool Jazz

Recorded Live at the Domicile, Munich, April 1971.

Design – Bernhard Wetz

Photography By – Franz Hubmann, Sepp Werkmeiste

Engineer – Willi Schmidt

Liner Notes – Ulrich Olshausen

Producer – Willi Fruth

Distributed By – BASF

Matrix / Runout (Side A): 0654 987 S 1

Matrix / Runout (Side B): 0654 987 S 2

A1 - Sunshine .................................................................................................... 8:36

A2 - Im Wald ...................................................................................................... 8:29

A3 - Encore ........................................................................................................ 5:26

B  -  Fata Morgana ........................................................................................... 17:58

        a) - Part 1: Die Wüste

        b) - Part 2: Die Oase

        c) - Part 3: Tanz

All compositions of Fritz Pauer

Personnel: 

Friedrich Gulda – piano, electric piano

Fritz Pauer – electric piano, piano

Klaus Weiss – drums, percussion

Classical and jazz pianist and composer, Friedrich Gulda was one of Austria's premiere pianists. Born in Vienna in 1930, Gulda started piano lessons at the age of seven. When he was 12, he enrolled in the Vienna Music Academy, and four years later received first place in the Geneva International Music Festival.

In 1949, Gulda toured Europe and South America, earning international acclaim for his treatments of Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven, and the following year he successfully debuted at Carnegie Hall. Gulda became more involved in jazz from 1951 on, when he improvised with Dizzy Gillespie following a performance with the Chicago Symphony. Five years later, Gulda played his first American jazz concert at Birdland (N.Y.C.), followed by a performance at the Newport Jazz Festival. After this, Gulda formed the Eurojazz Orchestra, a jazz combo and big band which drew from both jazz and classical compositions. In 1966, ten years after his Birdland appearance, Gulda organized a modern jazz competition in his native city. He was awarded the Vienna Academy's Beethoven Ring in 1970, but later returned it to protest what he regarded as a constricting educational system. This only reinforced the public's perception of Gulda as an eccentric...

_ Review By Joslyn Layne

This live 1971 recording includes Friedrich and second pianist Fritz Pauer both on electric and acoustic pianos, plus drummer Klaus Weiss. It's a cross between aspects of jazz, fusion and contemporary music.

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ERICH KLEINSCHUSTER SEXTETT ‎– Erich Kleinschuster Sextett (2LP-1972)

Label: MPS Records/BASF – 29 21356-0

Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album / Country: Germany / Released: 1972

Style: Free Jazz, Post Bop, Modal

Recorded Live of 9.1.1971 to 18.10.1971  in the Vienna Amerika-Haus.

Design [Cover] – Gerhard Burczik

Photography By – Lui Dimanche

Engineer [Tontechnik] – Ernst Neuspiel

Producer, Liner Notes [German, English - Mallindi, Kenya, January 17, 1972] – André Heller

Recording Supervisor [Aufnahmeleitung] – Paul Polansky

Matrix / Runout (Seite A, 1. Platte): A-1089 A1/C3A Made In Germany

Matrix / Runout (Seite B, 1. Platte): A-1089 B1/C3A Made In Germany

Matrix / Runout (Seite C, 2. Platte): A-1090 A1/C3A Made In Germany

Matrix / Runout (Seite D, 2. Platte): A-1090 B1/C3A Made In Germany

A  -  VLGM - Very Little Green Man ..................................................................... 18:42

B1 - English Garden Walk ................................................................................... 10:25

B2 - To Mr. Parikh ................................................................................................ 10:15

C1 - Confab ........................................................................................................... 9:05

C2 - "S" ............................................................................................................... 13:43

D1 - Sunshine In Raindrops .................................................................................. 5:10

D2 - Erwägung ...................................................................................................... 5:40

D3 - Backsliders Hambone ................................................................................... 8:33

Musicians:

Erich Kleinschuster – trombone

Leszek Zadlo – alto / soprano / tenor saxophone (tracks: A, B1, B2, C2)

Hans Salomon – alto / tenor saxophone (tracks: C1, D1 to D3)

Art Farmer – trumpet / flugelhorn (tracks: D1 to D3)

Fritz Pauer – piano / electric piano

Adelhard Roidinger – bass (tracks: A, B1, B2, C2)

Rudolf Hansen – bass (tracks: C1, D1 to D3)

Erich Bachträgl – drums / percussion

Fritz Ozmec – percussion(tracks: A, B1, B2, C2)

For more than 50 years Erich Kleinschuster, the native of Graz has not only characterized the history of jazz in Austria as a soloist, composer, arranger and bandleader, it already as a longtime director of the ORF entertainment music / production department as well as a music teacher, he has decisively influenced subsequent music genres. A literary trombone - as Andre Heller once described his friend Erich Kleinschuster.

But first, the jazz professor was actually a doctor. As a professional jazz musician, he decided not to make a decision until 1958 when he was invited to the "International Youth Band" at the "Newport Jazz Festival". There he met jazz greats such as Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderley and Louis Armstrong, with whom he even shared the stage.

In 1966, he founded the Erich Kleinschuster Sextet - and soon gained international recognition, not to mention his popularity in Austria. In 1971, Kleinschuster founded the "ORF Big Band", which he was responsible for 10 years. In 1969, he founded the Jazzinstitut at the Vienna Conservatory, in 1985 the jazz department at the Carinthian Conservatory, and in 1981 he was full professor at the Graz University of Performing Arts.

When it comes to providing jazz with the right value, Erich Kleinschuster is always at the forefront. After all, there is the audience - this has proved once again its successful festival "Jazzsommer Graz", and if he wants to retire as its director now, that does not mean that he wants to be quieter.   (Ö1 Morgenjournal)

Note:

This text comes from the year 2005, i.e. the master trombonist celebrated his 80th birthday.

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