Label:
World Pacific Jazz – ST-20167
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold / Country: US / Released: 1968 / 69 ?
Style:
Modern Jazz Fusion
Record
Company – World Pacific Jazz / Printed in USA.
Design
[Cover] – Günther Kieser
Engineer
– Willi Schmidt
Liner
Notes – Siegfried Schmidt-Joos
Producer
– Siegfried E. Loch
Also
the German edition on the label:
Liberty
– LBS 83 167 I / Series: World Pacific Jazz Series –
Matrix
/ Runout (A runout etched): ST-20167-1
Matrix
/ Runout (B runout etched): ST-20167-2
Tracklist:
A1
- Saragossa ..................................................................................................
6:39
A2
- Tempus Fugit ..............................................................................................
6:32
A3
- Face In The Night .......................................................................................
6:51
B1
- Blues Happening .......................................................................................
18:07
Personnel:
Klaus
Doldinger – soprano (tracks: A1, A2, B1) / tenor saxophone (tracks: A3, B1)
Ingfried
Hoffmann – piano (tracks: A1-A3) / organ (track B1)
Joe
Quick – guitar (track B1)
Lothar
Maid – bass guitar (track B1)
Helmut
Kandlberger – bass (tracks: A1-B1)
Kurt Bong – horn section (track B1) / drums (track B1)
Cees
See – drums / percussion (tracks: A1, B1)
Wolfgang
Paap – drums /percussion (track B1)
THE
KLAUS DOLDINGER QUARTET – Blues Happening, LP 1968, World Pacific Jazz stereo
ST-20167 vinyl __________ OUT OF STOCK
A
pioneering and multi-talented musician with a career that has run from MOR pop
onto the leading edge of experimental jazz fusion. Doldinger's history is
confused. If you want to know all about his background via trad. jazz, as a
James Last popular jazz and soul copyist (aka Paul Nero), onto psychedelic pop
and Passport, all this is documented on the triple anthology album DOLDINGER
JUBILEE (Atlantic 60073), though even that doesn't really make sense of it all.
His
first rock group was Motherhood, which kind of transmuted into Passport (the
other Motherhood members split off forming Hallelujah), though also during this
period Klaus Doldinger also kept working in jazz under his own name, as
witnessed by the three albums listed below:
BLUES
HAPPENING [LP
Liberty LBS 83167] (1968)
Credited
to: Klaus Doldinger Quartet
THE
AMBASSADOR [2LP
Liberty LBS 83317/18] (1969)
Credited
to: Klaus Doldinger Quartet
DOLDINGER [2LP
United Artists UAS 29542/43] (1973)
(Compilation, Credited to: Klaus Doldinger)
all
which explore different aspects of modern jazz fusion. Numerous top Munich
musicians have also been involved in Klaus' various bands (many of whom can be
found on numerous MPS releases, or went onto more progressive musics with
Embryo, Amon Düül II, etc.) or have become well-known afterwards, like Udo
Lindenberg or Kristian Schultze for instance.
More
recently, as a synthesist, Klaus has also become sought after as a film
soundtrack composer, after his success with the soundtracks to "Das
Boot" and "The Neverending Story". There are no doubt numerous
others we don't know of. Yet above all, Doldinger is an excellent and uniquely
styled saxophonist, best remembered for several excellent albums in the
early-70's with his groundbreaking jazz-rock band Passport, who paralleled the
likes of Isotope or Mahavishnu Orchestra.
Blues
Happening is the murderous album of early Dondlinger with the musicians you
just want. Very, very intriguing. Enjoy!
If
you find it, buy this album!
