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| MPS // Pt.1: MPS - Piano Month // Jan Hammer, Wolfgang Dauner, Fred van Hove, Gordon Beck, (Release Date: October 7th, 2016) MPS is known for its amazing piano greats and newcomer. E.g. Jan Hammer's first album on classic piano and organ. Recorded live at Domicile (Munich). Check out this new re-issue bunch of jazz sounds from the Black Forest: Requiem For Che Guevara This live 1968 Berlin Jazz Days recording of "Jazz in the Church" arose from the festival's desire to shine a light on the music's religious aspects. Two leading European Avant-gardists were commissioned to present works to be played in Berlin's Sudstern Church. German Keyboardist Wolfgang Dauner already stood at the forefront of European jazz. Continually a winner of European jazz polls, his trio of Eberhard Weber and Fred Braceful, anchor the piece, with two of Germany's foremost horn players and the St. Martin Kantorei rounding out the ensemble. On Dauner's Psalmus Spei, songs, texts, chants, whispers and moans mingle with melodic riffs and free instrumental passages to achieve an impressively colorful emotional palette. A pioneer of European free jazz, Belgium's Fred Van Hove fronts a septet of leading players in the European free music scene, including Dutchmen Willem Breuker, Han Bennik, and German Peter Kovald. Based on Martin Luther's choral "Mitten wir im Leben sin von dem Tod umgeben", Hove's Requiem has its moments of serenity; more often it recalls the tempest, as the musicians explore the sonic limits of their instruments, and the organ throws blankets of sound over the proceedings; colors and textures are more to the point than melody, but Albert Aylerlisch hymns occasionally resonate, and there is even a hint of Iberia some 10 minutes in. Seven Steps To Evans This unusual album takes on the compositions of the iconic jazz pianist Bill Evans from a uniquely different angle. It also brings together some of Britain's finest players. Pianist Gordon Beck gained international fame through his work with Phil Woods. Beck "bears comparison to the likes of Bill Evans and Herbie Hancock" (All Music). Kenny Wheeler was one of the most important trumpeters of his generation, and Sulzmann, Mathewson, and Oxley have all left their imprints on the music. The lyrical piano intro on Waltz For Debby belies what is to come: 'fast and furious' improvisation in 4/4! Malma Maliny - The Jan Hammer Trio Recorded 'live' at Munich's legendary Domicile jazz club a few years before Czech composer/keyboardist Jan Hammer leaped to fame with the Mahavishnu Orchestra, this album highlights Hammer's compositional and organ/piano skills. Czech bassist George Mraz, has worked with everyone from Oscar Peterson to Joe Lovano, and the versatile Dutch drummer Cees See completes the trio. The album begins with the funky 24 bar blues Make Love featuring Jan's standout piano and a soulful bowed bass Digital Mastered for iTunes Distribution: Edel:Kultur/ Kontor New Media MPS Records Homepage - 24-bit-Transfer from original master tapes - produced by Dirk Sommer write your comments about the article :: © 2016 Jazz News :: home page |