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Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet - Stone / Water

Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet - Stone / Water

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Label: okkadisk 12032 | Condition: New | Description:

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

Cover and Artwork

Design & Art by: Peter Brötzmann 
Additional Design & Production by: Louise Molnar

Songs

©&®2000 Retained by the artists.

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
engineer/mix: Denis LeClerc, Michel Lariviere
mastered by: John McCortney at Air Wave Studios
produced by: Peter Brötzmann, Bruno Johnson & John Corbett 
Exec. Producer: Bruno Johnson

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

 

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! 


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