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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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.

If you find it, buy this album!