Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet - Stone / Water
Label: okkadisk 12032 | Condition: New | Description:
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Musicians |
BRÖTZMANN CHICAGO TENTET: Peter Brötzmann — tenor sax/clarinet Ken Vandermark — tenor sax/clarinet/bass clarinet Mats Gustafsson — tenor sax/fluteophone Jeb Bishop — trombone Toshinori Kondo — trumpet/electronics Fred Lonberg-Holm — cello, violin William Parker — bass Kent Kessler — bass Michael Zerang — drums Hamid Drake — drums/frame drum |
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Cover and Artwork |
Design & Art by: Peter Brötzmann |
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©&®2000 Retained by the artists. |
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Recording Info |
recorded live at: 16th Festival de Musique de Actuelle Victoriaville in Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada by Radio Canada (5/23/99) producer of recording: Mario Gauthier |
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Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet, Stone/Water (OkkaDisk). On this live recording, German free jazz sax legend Brötzmann earns a key to the Windy City by heading up a brilliant and boisterous band dominated by Chicagoans: reed man [Ken] Vandermark, trombonist Jeb Bishop, cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm and drummers Hamid Drake and Michael Zerang. Boasting a single extended piece, Stone/Water is by turns hair-raising, tuneful and, in continually changing focus and texture, crafty. — Lloyd Sachs, “10 best of the year: Chicago’s jazz greats”, Chicago Sun-Times, January 5, 2001
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With any sizeable Brötzmann group, the temptation is always there to compare it to his classic Machine Gun unit. This new tentet doesn’t match up to the unbridled ferocity of that earlier grouping, but then what has? Perhaps the greatest sea change since the heavy-drinking glory days of 1968 is that ecstatic playing is now as much an idiom as an instinctive response. For all its supposed iconoclastic freedom, this idiom now has its own traditions, its own heroes, and its own stock cliches. Youthful rage, frustration and joy have subsided, to be replaced by an awareness that ecstatic playing is one option among many, albeit one that requires more art and dedication than any other in the history of jazz. In any era, though, this would be a startling group [...]. All these musicians are capable of investing energy and truth into an idiom which, in lesser hands, is in danger of becoming as empty as the ciphers of trad or swing. This 1999 concert date presumably proceeds in a conduction style through a series of smaller sectional pairings. Perhaps in deference to the acoustics of the concert hall, individual virtuosic showcases are preferred to the full power splat of the whole group, which is saved here till the very end. Still, there are many highlights, including Kondo’s electronically splattered trumpet, and a wonderful trombone solo from Bishop set against a galloping bassline, and Drake’s ever swinging drums. — Alan Cummings, The Wire, August 2000 also available in limited quantities on VINYL! |
