GÜNTER LENZ SPRINGTIME – Roaring Plenties (L+R Rec. – LR 40.005/LP-1980)

Label: L+R Records – LR 40.005

Format: Vinyl, LP / Country: Germany / Released: 1980

Style: Free Jazz, Contemporary Jazz

Recorded live April 24/25, 1979 at Wilhelmsbad, Hanau as part of the Wilhelmsbader Produktionen for the TV-Series "Focus On Jazz".

Artwork – Günther Kieser

Photography By [Cover Photo] – Mara Eggert

Photography By [Liner Photo] – Anno Wilms

Engineer – Charly Morell

Producer – Wolfgang Vogel and Günter Lenz

Distributed by Bellaphon Records Germany

Matrix / Runout (Runout, Side A): LR 40 005 - A SST

Matrix / Runout (Runout, Side B): LR 40 005 - B SST

A1 - Children Of The Night   (Bob Degen) ........................................................... 8:28

A2 - The Bear Is Gone   (Günter Lenz) ................................................................ 6:45

A3 - Roaring Plenties   (Günter Lenz) .................................................................. 4:25

B1 - Do Not Tear The Posters Down   (Günter Lenz) ........................................ 12:15

B2 - Speed Freak   (Frank St. Peter) ................................................................... 8:30

Personnel:

Günter Lenz – bass (leader, producer)

Frank St. Peter – alto saxophone, clarinet, flute

Leszek Zadlo – tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone

Johannes Faber – trumpet

Bob Degen – piano

Joe Nay – drums, percussion

Berlin Jazz Festival in 1979 "Mingus Memorial", the tribute to Charles Mingus, the great black bassist who has just passed away. Drummer Danny Richmond had a stunning performance. 
In addition to well-known names organizer took his chance and  brought fresh wind into this memorial concert: by the Frankfurt bassist Günter Lenz and his group "Springtime"......

"Roaring Plenties"; Günter Lenz and Springtime - Johannes Faber (trumpet), Frank St. Peter and Leszek Zadlo (saxophones), Bob Degen (piano), Joe Nay (drums), Günter Lenz (bass); L + R Records LR 40.005 (distribution: Bellaphon).
"Not a copy, but subconscious respect must be spoken there," says the knowledgeable record producer Horst Lippmann, because the letters "L + R" (records) stand for the organizer team Lippmann + Rau. Lenz and his people pay homage to the spirit and not the letter on this record as they did in Berlin. In addition to the moving death suit "The Bear Is Gon" leads mainly the main part of the record, "Roaring Plenties", in the center of Mingus music; not least by the pun of the title. As Dixieland, Weill-Touch and Blues clichés are mounted here, this really has something of the wild twenties, tastes like plenty of "Roaring Twenties". The twelve minutes of "Do Not Tear The Poster Down" begin with an elongated melody that echoes bebop phrases, and they end with a reef that has evolved from a bass figure and drives the piece to its end, mercilessly, relentlessly and with that power that gives one the belief in a conception and its correctness...



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THE WOLFGANG SCHLÜTER COMBO – Hangover (PIL 9038 / LP-1977)

Label: Peer International Library Limited – PIL 9038

Also on: Southern Library of Recorded Music - MQLP 9038

Series: Contemporary 9000 –

Format: Vinyl, LP / Country: UK / Released: 1977

Style: Contemporary Jazz, Avant-garde, Modal

Recorded at PEER - SOUTHERN STUDIOS, Hamburg, W. Germany

Design [sleeve] – Jack Mooring

Engineer – Frank Reinke

Producer – John O'Brien-Docker

Composed By – Wolfgang Schlüter

Matrix / Runout: PIL–9038.A–IV

Matrix / Runout: PIL–9038.B–2C

Very rare Peer International Library Limited – PIL 9038, LP from 1977 (UK). This is a great Jazz, LP with a soulful groovy feel.  Nice use of Vibes! ____ Sold out! –  (never on a CD)

A1 - Hangover ................................................................................................... 11:07

A2 - Consensus .................................................................................................. 4:39

A3 - Sun Up ........................................................................................................ 4:38

B1 - Dance Of The Dinosaurs ............................................................................ 7:57

B2 - Time And Tide ............................................................................................. 5:20

B3 - Thirst ........................................................................................................... 5:10

Personnel:

Wolfgang Schlüter – vibraphone, percussion

Leszek Zadlo – soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, flute

Jan Tolf – guitar

Rob Franken – keyboards

Lucas Lindholm – bass

Alex Riel – drums, percussion

Wolfgang Schlüter, a jazz fusion vibes player, in the vein of Dave Pike. His Wolfgang Schlüter Combo album HANGOVER is notable for the Brave New World, connections of Lucas Lindholm and John O'Brien-Docker (as producer), I mean their collaboration on the 1972 album - Impressions On Reading Aldous Huxley (Vertigo ‎– 6360 606). Here really goes well with rather easy listening moody jazz-fusion with Leszek Zadlo's saxes as the main solo instruments and Schlüter's cool vibes a close second.

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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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