Label:
Cosmic Sounds – CS-15 LP
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Compilation; Country: UK - Released: 2001
Style:
Post Bop, Modal, Free Jazz
Previously
released in Yugoslavia on RTB label on two albums:
Tone
Janša Kvartet - RTB LP 4202, 1976 (tracks 1,2)
Tone
Janša Kvartet - RTB LP 4205, 1978 (tracks 3,4,5,6)
Compiled
By – Zeljko Kerleta
Phonographic
Copyright (p) – Cosmic Sounds
Limited
edition high-quality Vinyl LPs reissue.
A1
- Yudach (Juda) . . . 15:52
A2
- Milky Way (Rimska Cesta) – Herald Neuwirth - piano . . . 8:38
A3
- Vision (Vizija) . . . 4:37
B1
- Motive (Motiv) . . . 16:23
B2
- Bouyancy (Vzgon) . . . 3:40
B3
- Sun (Sonce) . . . 9:36
TONE
JANSA — Sax (Alto), Sax (Tenor)
ANDRE
JEANQUARTIER — Piano
EWALD
OBERLEITNER — Bass
JOHANN
PREININGER — Drums
In
70's Pharoah Sanders wasn't listening to Tone Jansa, neither Tone was listening
to Pharoah but two musicians at two different parts of the world were creating
at the same time unbelievably similar music. It is obvious where both of them
got inspiration - Coltrane. Two albums that Tone recorded in 70's for RTB label
are masterpieces of Yugoslavian Jazz. The third one that he did at the same
time and in a same quality came out on Helidon label and is well worth
checking.
Tone's
music is not worth explaining, it has to be heard. It is very spiritual at the
moments, very deep and soulful and sometime just cheerful and moving, giving
you urge to dance or just wiggle. Couple of the tracks might sound to long for
you but if you listen to them carefully, when they finish you want more and the
main theme stays in your had all day long........
"Rare
recordings from Yugoslavian sax player Tone Jansa - a free-thinking 70s talent
with a post-Coltrane spiritual approach to jazz! Jansa's working here in a
quartet with piano, bass, and drums -- and he plays alto, tenor, and flute in
long spiralling solos that branch out, searching sonically for new horizons, in
the mode of some of the better early 70s work by Americans like Carlos Garnett
or Pharoah Sanders. "
"Black
americas sound of the 70's, wasn't something that the YU jazzmen of the same
period did hang on to. Tone is a precious jewel of what may be called the
fusion sound of YU jazz."
"Yugoslavian
rare groove. 'Vision' instantly reminded me of Courtny Pine new album, kind of
soul jazz vibe going on and yes, very nice indeed. The rest of the album is
very straight ahead, very spiritual, very much in a kind of John Klemmer,
Pharoah Sanders kind of mid 70's vibe..."
"This
compilation taken from two seminal albums in the history of Eastern European
jazz — particularly in what used to be Yugoslavia — is a welcome find in the
bins of the United States and England. Saxophonist Tone Jansa is a giant of a
man, and a saxophonist who has much in common with both Pharaoh Sanders and the
giant who influenced him, John Coltrane. This quartet made a total of five
records, and one in quintet and sextet settings. But the two that are referred
to here should be reissued in their entirety. Oh well, what can I do? The first
two tracks of this outrageously beautiful, spiritually motivated open modal
jazz is from the Tone Jansa Jazz Kvartet disc on RTB in 1976, and the last four
are from the Tone Jansa Kvartet disc on the same label from 1978. There is a
quiet fire in Jansa's playing; like Sanders, he seeks out the melodic
propensity in scalar problems — especially in contrapuntal situations with
pianist Andre Jeanquartier on 'Motive' and 'Yudach.' Both men tend to emphasize
the mode inside the interval that creates sparks of lyrical fire between them
and generates the most intricate of solos. The rhythm section here, Ewald
Oberleitner and drummer Johann Preininger, is above journeyman status as well,
but far from virtuosos in their own rights. Still they move rhythms and meters
through some interesting color phases throughout this collection, turning the
time against itself on 'Sun,' which closes the album so that both soloists have
to reinvent the mode each time they solo. These recordings are so fine in their
spiritually transcendent way, they would have been right at home on the Strata
East label a few years earlier. There is no higher compliment one can pay than
that." (AMG)
If
you find it, buy this album!
