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| MPS // Part 2: Festival Season on MPS - Live and Festival recordings To get off to a good start of this years festival season we want to spotlight the live recordings of MPS Records catalogue. The second part will be released next Friday. Enjoy a summer full of music! Heidelberger Jazz Tage 72 (The Authentic Live Recording) This live festival double album highlights 11 European groups representing a potpourri of musical styles and directions. Kurt Edelhagen led one of Europe's major big bands. This edition included American stars Benny Bailey (trp), Jiggs Wigham (trb), European stalwarts Ferdinand Povel (sax), Dieter Reith (p) and Günter Lenz (b). Their Kindly Leave the Stage flashes by in a blistering bop-inflected escapade. The fusion quartet Association P. C. gained international fame in the early 70's. With star Dutch keyboardist Jasper van't Hof in the forefront, Frau Theunissen is an electric tour de force. On Faun, the Brassy Brew quintet offers up a hodgepodge of musical colors. One of the most influential swing bands in post-war Germany, the Erwin Lehn Big Band, performs Roto Rooter, a funky blues with an infectious rock rhythm and driving solos by trumpet masters, Ack van Rooyen and Rolf Erikson. Zürich Jazz Festival 1970 There was something special about this Swiss festival: it highlighted amateurs, in this case those who honor jazz in the word's Latin sense (amator) – they played for the love of the music. The three winners of the Festival's 1970 competition are up first. The British modern swing band Harry Burgess and Bones Galore open with a brassy, rousing rendition of Cole Porter's Love for Sale. Centered in Geneva, the Oliver Berney-Eric Gigante Quintet flow through their original minor blues Mood and Beat, and The Step With Soul Jazz Group's Blues For J features a hip organ-guitar-drum trio that could upstage most professional trios. The next four tracks present festival alumni. The Dixie Jazz Group plays a swinging updated version of the piece Satchmo's Hot Five made famous, Big Butter and Egg Man. The German All Stars – Live At The Domicile From 1965 to 1981 Munich's Domicile jazz club was a mecca for international jazz. This live 1971 album brings together that period's 'who's who' of the German jazz scene; Coda commented in 1974 that, "This band at best can blow most modern American big bands right off the stage". At the center, trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff's legendary quartet with Heinz Sauer (s), Günter Lenz (b), Ralf Hübner (dr). All originals, the pieces display the players' compositional and improvisational strengths. On the freely-played Out of Reach Gerd Dudek's soprano solo stretches out over a densely layered background; gripping solos by Mangelsdorff and Manfred Schoof (trp). Release Date: June 17th, 2016 (2 month exclusively on iTunes. Subsequently available on all common download services.) MPS Records New Digital Releases Digital Mastered for iTunes Distribution: Edel:Kultur/ Kontor New Media - Mastered for iTunes - 24-bit-Transfer from original master tape write your comments about the article :: © 2016 Jazz News :: home page |