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| Guitar Month on MPS Records (1st Part): Volker Kriegel 1st part of our guitar month records on MPS will be released next Friday. This time three Volker Kriegel albums. A 20th Century Renaissance man, cartoonist, film director, author, radio personality, record company owner, German guitarist Volker Kriegel played an important role in the European jazz-rock and fusion movements. Co-founder of the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble, Kriegel's own groups and collaborations with American vibraphonist Dave Pike gained him a world-wide audience, as his 14 albums for MPS as leader and 15 as sideman can attest. Volker Kriegel - Lift! What a group Volker Kriegel assembled for this album! Polish Violinist Zbignew Seiferts was a player who worked with the jazz world's elite and is still talked about with a sense of awe. Saxophonist Stan Sulzman has worked with musicians ranging from Paul McCartney to Gil Evans. John Taylor rates as one of the most important jazz pianists to come out of England; bassist Eberhard Weber and drummer John Marshall rank as two of the major European players on their respective instruments. Volker Kriegel - Inside: Missing Link Volker Kriegel assembled a band of some of the leading musical visionaries on the European jazz scene for this 1972 double album. The first album contains four extended pieces in a hip mix of rock & jazz with pulsating arrangements and distinctive solos. Take a listen to Kriegel's classy play on Slums on Wheels, with trombone icon Albert Mangelsdorff's flashy solo followed by English saxophone giant Alan Skidmore's scintillating soprano. The piece moves into an up-tempo jazz feel and German saxophone master Heinz Sauer's passionate solo. Volker Kriege & Mild Maniac Orchestra - Octember Variations This first album of Volker Kriegel's Mild Maniac Orchestra, one of Europe's most influential and successful fusion groups. Keyboardist Thomas Bettermann would go on to record 8 albums with Kiegel, and bassist Hans Peter Ströer and Dutch drummer Evert Fraterman would continue to work with Kriegel for close to a decade. They were Kriegel's rhythm section for all four of the Orchestra's MPS dates. MPS Records New Digital Releases Digital Mastered for iTunes Distribution: Edel:Kultur/ Kontor New Media write your comments about the article :: © 2016 Jazz News :: home page |