JOE HAIDER – Katzenvilla (Spiegelei – 28 772-2 U / LP-1971)

Label: Spiegelei – 28 772-2 U

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

Style: Avant-garde Jazz, Contemporary Jazz, Free Improvisation

Recorded At Horst Jankowski Studio, Stuttgart 12.10.1971.

Published By O.B.H. Musikverlag, München

Coverdesign by – K. Fröhlicher

Engineer by – Claus H. Reisser

Produced by – Otto B. Hartmann

Matrix / Runout (Label side A) [etched]: A-0470 A/C 3 A  A

Matrix / Runout (Label side B) [etched]: A-0470 A/C 3 A  B

Tracklist

A1 - Fate Of A Child .......................................................................................... 4:02

A2 - My Little Darling ......................................................................................... 9:20

A3 - Capricorn ................................................................................................... 5:25

B1 - Katzenvilla ................................................................................................. 9:14

B2 - EJP ............................................................................................................ 7:47

B3 - And Now? .................................................................................................. 3:17

Personnel:

Joe Haider – piano

Isla Eckinger – bass

Pierre Favre – drums, percussion

On 12 October 1971 the music of this album was recorded at the Horst Jankowski Studio in Stuttgart. At that time it was Joe Haider's greatest desire to make a trio LP. Thanks to the producer and longtime friend Otto B. Hartmann this musical portrait has been created.

In the house named "Katzenvilla" Haider has lived for many years and spent a beautiful and important time of his life. Each track of the album tells a story that has to do with its human and musical development during this important part of its life.

The music was spontaneously recorded: Joe Haider's longtime friends, Isla Eckinger (bass) and Pierre Favre (drums) were the ideal partners with their empathy and their own great musicality to spontaneously capture the moods of these stories and implement them in the trio in an impressive manner.

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FRANÇOIS COUTURIER Jazz Impression – Le Vice Et La Paresse (JAM / LP-1978)

Label: Disques JAM – CG 1278

Format: Vinyl, LP / Country: France / Released: 1978

Style: Free Jazz, Free Improvisation

Side A - recorded on the 27, 28 and 29 of October 1978, Théatre de l'Université in Tours.

Side B - recorded live in Tours on the 26th of October 1978.

Artwork By [Layout] – Jean-Luc Coudray

Artwork By [Maquette] – Jean Maillot

Photography – Jean-Christophe Maillot

Engineer [Sound] – Thierry Lebon

Written-By – François Couturier (tracks: A3 to B)

A1 - Written-By – Bertrand Maillot / A2 - Written-By – Jean-Jacques Ruhlmann

Matrix / Runout (side 1, Etched): CG 1278 A

Matrix / Runout (side 2, Etched): CG 1278 B

A1 - Manèges ..................................................................................................... 041

A2 - Si Le Coeur Éclate ..................................................................................... 6:57

A3 - Béla ............................................................................................................ 5:54

A4 - Mont Dore .................................................................................................. 5:06

A5 - Musique Agaçante ..................................................................................... 1:18

B  -  Le Vice Et La Paresse .............................................................................. 21:00

Personnel:

François Couturier – piano [acoustic], electric piano, clavinet

Jean-Jacques Ruhlmann – soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, flute

Roland Merle – tenor saxophone, clarinet

Christian Gentet – contrabass

Bertrand Maillot – drums, percussion

Exclusivity: Disques J.A.M. "Le Pont De Cissé" 37210 Vouvray - 16 (47) 52.72.74

Made in France.

François Couturier 

The work was recorded in October 1978 at the Théatre de l'Université in Tours, and the band was formed around French pianist François Couturier. François Mechali and Philippe Mate and other jazzmen who participated in the next work in the year of 1981 will join and head towards more complicated directions, but this work has a precisely constructed ensemble and a strangely twisted aesthetic. A bold and clever chamber jazz of bold feeling that a modal sense of harmony is balanced with balance. The first side of this LP shows a complex development while holding humorous songs, while the other side (B) recorded a live 21 minutes worth of thrilling drive feeling, both outstanding completeness.

Great recommendation!

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ALAIN BOUHEY – La Voie Scriptorale (Self-Released - tribulation III-I/LP-1988)

Label: Alain Bouhey Self-Released ‎– tribulation III-I

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album / Country: France / Released: 1988

Style: Free Jazz, Contemporary Jazz, Free Improvisation

Recorded At – Studio Adam, 1988. Mastered At – Top Master, France

Composed By – Yochk'o Seffer

Photography By – Roger Norymberg

Recorded By, Mixed By – Philippe Beaucamp

Sleeve, Concept By, Liner Notes, Producer – Alain Bouhey

Printed By – Glory / Pressed By – MPO

Includes 16-page booklet and poster

Matrix / Runout (runout side A, hand etched): MPO III 1 A1

Matrix / Runout (runout side B, hand etched): MPO III-1 B

A1 - Self-System .............................................................................................................. 5:15

         Piano – Yochk'o Seffer / Tenor Saxophone – Alain Bouhey

A2 - Trabla-Air ................................................................................................................. 4:30

         Piano – Yochk'o Seffer / Soprano Saxophone – Alain Bouhey

A3 - Techouba (Hommage A John Coltrane) .................................................................. 7:20

         Bass Clarinet, Woodwind [Trabla] – Yochk'o Seffer

         Tenor Saxophone – Alain Bouhey

B  -  Szerkezet I, Szoñata .............................................................................................. 19:21

    1     Allegro Vivo (6:03)

            Alto Saxophone – Alain Bouhey / Piano – Carol Lipkind

    2     Cadence (6:30)

            Alto Saxophone – Alain Bouhey / Piano [Improvisé] – Yochk'o Seffer

    3     Largo Et Presto (6:43)

            Alto Saxophone – Alain Bouhey / Piano – Carol Lipkind

Personnel:

Alain Bouhey – alto, tenor, soprano saxophones

Yochk’o Seffer – piano, bass clarinet, woodwind [trabla]

Carol Lipkind – piano (B-1 / B-3)

Avant garde jazz recorded in the 80's by the French sax player Alain Bouhey with Yochk'o Seffer and Carol Lipkind.

Limited private pressing by Alain Bouhey with book, flyer and poster included.

Alain Bouhey is a pedagogist, author of several books on saxophone techniques. He was teacher in Senegal during the 1970s and is teaching saxophone in Rennes and Paris since the 1980s. This vinyl oddity is dedicated to Leopold Sédar Senghor, the poet and Senegal’s president from [1966 to 198?], himself a music lover and organizer of the 1st Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres (Black Arts Festival) in Dakar, 1966 (the LP from this festival is itself a strange thing).

On ‘La Voie Scriptorale’, Alain Bouhey’s saxophone playing is highly enjoyable, without the shrieking sounds or violent demonstration from other free jazz horn blowers. Magma’s multi-instrumentalist Yochk’o Seffer shows muscular abilities in his keyboard ostinatos and arpegiatos, but he’s mixed a little behind Bouhey so that the music is allowed to breathe. The A side has 3 delightful duets with written sax parts and piano improvisation, except Techouba, a saxophone+bass clarinet duet. The B-side is a piano+saxophone sonata with Bartok and atonal reminiscences courtesy of Seffer himself, though it is probably partly improvised rather than written down.

The LP comes with a 16-pp LP-sized booklet of writings and technical diagrams by Alain Bouhey.

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