KLAUS WEISS QUINTETT / CLIFFORD JORDAN – Live At Opus 1 (2LP-1988)

Label: Jazzline – JL 20830, Delta – JL 20830

Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album / Country: Germany / Released: 1988

Style: Contemporary Jazz, Improvisation

Recorded live by Christian Sodl at "OPUS ONE" Wien-February 9,1987.

Coverdesign – A. Backhausen - Köln – Foto: ZEFA

Executive Producer – Paul Polansky

Recording Engineer – Christian Sodl

Digital Mastering – Wolfgang Meyscheider / Tonstudio Kraus München

Photos – Max Mühlherr / P. Brunner

Matrix / Runout (Side A): DMM JL 20830-1 A-1

Matrix / Runout (Side B): DMM JL 20830-1 B-1

Matrix / Runout (Side C): DMM JL 20830-2 C-2

Matrix / Runout (Side D): DMM JL 20830-2 D-2

Note:

An ORF Production Recorded / Live at Opus One,Vienna, Austria

Audiophile Pressing - ADA Extended Version ________ OUT OF STOCK

DMM Direct Metal Mastering

Copyright DMM: Teldec

Deutsche Pressung - German Pressing

℗1988 – Ein Produkt der DELTA-Music GmbH

A1 - Blue'n Boogie  (Dizzy Gillespie) .......................................................................... 6:03

A2 - Eye Witness Blues  (Clifford Jordan) ................................................................. 11:12

B1 - Lush Life  (Billy Strayhorn) ................................................................................. 9:00

B2 - Highest Mountain  (Clifford Jordan) .................................................................... 8:48

C1 - L.A.Calling  (Isla Eckinger) ................................................................................ 12:32

C2 - Lover Man  (Roger Ramirez) .............................................................................. 5:38

D1 - Don't Get Around Much Anymore  (Duke Ellington) ......................................... 13:03

D2 - Una Noche Con Francis  (Bud Powell) ............................................................... 4:26

Personnel:

Clifford Jordan – tenor saxophone

John Schröder – guitar

Roberto Di Gioia – piano

Thomas Stabenow – bass

Klaus Weiss – drums, percussion

Delta Music is German label founded 1970 by Philippe Sautot and Dr. Jürgen Moll. Located in Großkönigsdorf / Frechen near Cologne.

... In the first half of the 1970s, Klaus Weiss worked with the Horst Jankowski Sextet, the trio of former Mingus saxophonist Bobby Jones and the Eugen Cicero Trio. From 1975 to 1977 he toured with Mal Waldron and with the Dusko Goykovic Big Band and then, between 1978 and 1983, Weiss led a quintet which featured various guest soloists, including Sal Nistico, Roman Schwaller, Clifford Jordan and Andy Scherrer. He also played with Catalan pianist Tete Montoliu, with Eddie "Lockjaw Davis" and with the WDR and NDR big bands.

In the 1980s toured with Clifford Jordan and Horace Parlan, played with multi-instrumentalist Jerome Richardson and toured with his new quintet. In 1984 he recorded a big band album, "Lightnin' " which was nominated for the Süd West Funk Jazz Prize...

... In a highly varied career, Klaus Weiss has made 17 albums under his own name, with formations ranging from trio, quartet, quintet and sextet to full orchestra, and has appeared on numerous other albums as a sideman.

Weiss's musical philosophy is that good jazz music - which means jazz played by consummate professionals who have a powerful rapport with one another and the same sense of musical direction - is a highly durable music. He says: "Count Basie's music will still be up to date 50 years from now."

It is significant that Klaus himself defines his approach to drumming as directly derived from some of the great American drummers which he began listening to in the early 1950s.

Says Klaus: "For me, the essence of great jazz drumming was epitomized by those giants, like Big Sid Catlett, Klook, Blakey, Buddy and Philly Joe. These have all been listening drummers, each with his own personality, but having in common a great ability to swing, to generate excitement, and to stimulate the soloists. And besides their sound and way of playing, I got really interested in the American drum rudiments because, as I discovered at the time, all great American drummers know and use those essential rudiments - but few of the European drummers in the fifties seemed to have assimilated these elements - at least, to my ears." ...

With this gorgeous double album I wish you all a HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Enjoy!..... Cheers !!!!!!!

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