This will be my last post ... for a while.

JAN JANKEJE ‎– Zum Trotz feat. B. LAGRENE

LP Jazzpoint Records ‎– 1016 Germany, 1983

 This is not gypsy jazz despite the presence of Birelli Lagrene and a violinist.  It is high-energy contemporary jazz with hard bop and latin jazz influences.  The themes are all original.  Highly recommended!

Credits

Piano – Klaus Wagenleiter

Violin, Viola – Matthias Buck

Guitar – Bireli Lagrene (guest)

Bass – Jan Jankeje

Drums – Werner Braun

Tracklist

A1       Doo In Peru     3:58

A2       Zum Trotz       3:00

A3       Mitti    3:53

A4       Rue De Pierre   4:41

A5       Paris     4:14

B1        Berga   3:50

B2        Reinsburgstrasse          3:56

B3        Down In Town 2:27

B4        3rd Type Blues 4:15

B5        Elsa-Marie        3:16

Recorded at Studio Westend Ton, Stuttgart

See updated link in comments (17/07/17)

FAREWELL EVERY ONE ....

This will be my last post for quite a while I’m afraid.  I have taken a new long term overseas job which will leave me with little free time for the blog.  Moreover all my LPs will remain in Belgium, I won’t be able to rip anything any longer.

I wish to thank the "old" bloggers who've inspired me (Bacoso, Simon, El Rezah, Ish, Katonah, Arkadin, Inconstant Sol , E-mile, Rodney at BritJazz and many more...), all the contributors, friends and fellow bloggers who have contributed to the success of this blog (onxidlib and Paul D. especially), all the visitors, the regulars who always left a comment … but also the (more numerous) anonymous visitors (about 15 000 every months, sometime even more).

I will continue to visit the blogworld and see how it develops.  If circumstances permit I may revive the blog at a later date, I still have a good number of obscure albums never seen in the blogs to this date.  In a few years, I’ll have much more free time  and, hopefully, improved equipment and skills.

In the meantime, farewell every one, thanks for your support.

AN AMERICAN IN GERMANY

JIGGS WHIGHAM - HOPE
LP Telefunken (Germany) / Pausa (USA)
Germany (1977)

Another forgotten piece of top-notch Eurojazz. Even if the leader is American - as is the drummer - the result has a definite European feel.   

American trombonist Jiggs Whigham had a long and fruitful career as a jazzman, arranger, band leader and educator in Europe since the mid-sixties. During the seventies he played regularly in Belgium, often appearing as guest soloist with the BRT radio orchestra and playing the local clubs (Pol's in Brussels) and festivals (Middelheim in Antwerp).

HOPE is one of my favortie Wigham's albums.   I do not think it has ever been re-issued on CD.

Just look at the caliber of the guys in the band ... need I say more?  La Creme de la creme!

Credits

Trombone, Percussion, Producer, Arranger – Jiggs Whigham

Saxophone, Flute – Ferdinand Povel

Piano, Electric Piano [Fender Rhodes] – Rob Franken

Bass – Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen

Drums – Grady Tate

Tracklist

A1                   Bodge  3:36

A2                   The Healer       6:00

A3                   Hope    4:57

A4                   Absolutely Knot           5:50

B1                   Owa Tagu Siam (Oh What A Goose I Am)       4:46

B2                   Sunflower Chant          6:48

B3                   Chant   4:48

B4                   Going Home    2:35

Original LP rip.  WAV.

LINK UPDATED 18/07/17

RARE, GROOVY AND SO TYPICALLY EUROPEAN!

COLOURS IN JAZZ

FRANCIS COPPIETERS SELECTION

featuring: Rolf Roemer – tenor sax, flute / Klaus Osterloh – flugelhorn / Francis Coppieters: piano & percussion /  Jean Warland: bass / Klaus Weiss: drums / Koenraad Ellegiers: violin / Gustav Kedves: French Horn

LP Intersound                                  GERMANY, 1986

If you’re into the MPS / Eurojazz sound, the names of Francis Coppieters and Jean Warland should not be totally unknown to you.  Both are Belgians who made a career working in the German studios and big radio bands.  You’ve probably seen their names credited on several MPS / SABA albums.

Jean Warland is probably the better known of the two due to his participation in the Clarke-Boland Big Band and Peter Herbolzheimer Brass & Rhythm Combination, among many other sessions.

Francis Coppieters‘ career goes back to the mid-forties in Belgium.  In 1949 he became a member of the Hazy Osterwald Orchestra, then of the Kurt Edelhagen Big Band and finally became a studio musician for MPS.

Although they both recorded prolifically as sidemen, they did not record much as leaders which may explain why they remain largely unknown outside a small circle of collectors and aficionados. 

Francis Coppieters is highly regarded among Libray music collectors for his album “Piano Viberations” (1975) issued on the KPM Music Library label.  It features Claudio Szenkar (b),  Jean Warland (bass) and Charly Antolini (drs) - according to Pernet's discography. The names of Fats Sadi (vibes), Roger Vanhaverbeke (bass) and Freddy Rottier (drs) were mentioned also but it does not appear they took part in this session. 

According to the discographies there is another library album by Coppieters – KTS-5 (Koln, 1980)  with an astounding lineup: the van Rooyen brothers, Jon Eardley, Otto Bredl, Peter Herbolzheimer, Wilton Gaynar, Karlheinz Wiberny ... just to name a few – but I’ve never heard or even seen it.

Colours in Jazz recorded in 1986 is a jazz / library jazz /soul jazz album.

If you like the music of Charlie Antolini and Roland Kovac, you’ll like this album.  Groovy  with a typical European feel!  Don’t miss it. I don’t think it has ever been posted elsewhere in the blogworld.

Tracklist

A1                   Mobile            3:03

A2                   Blue Magic     5:22

A3                   Shuffle Bubble           4:52

A4                   Blue Greens    4:14

A5                   Aquarelle        4:40

B1                   Voyage           3:22

B2                   Aroma 3:36

B3                   Sir Francis Drums      3:28

B4                   Easy Going     4:25

B5                   Ritmo Pizzicato         4:45

Credits

Flugelhorn – Klaus Osterloh

Tenor Saxophone, Flute – Rolf Röhmer

Piano, Percussion, Composed By, Arranged By – Francis Coppieters

Bass – Jean Warland

Drums – Klaus Weiss

French Horn – Gustav Kedves

Violin – Koenraad Ellegiers

Francis Coppieters

Notes

Recorded March 1986 at Cornet Sudio, Cologne

(n.b.: scans of  sleeve sourced from Discogs).    

LINK UPDATED 18/07/17

PS: I have re-posted Fats Sadi Combo (Rarity #11)

RARITY # 53

DUSKO GOYKOVICH  "YESTERDAY"

ELECTROLA E 23 096 - 45 rpm (single)

GERMANY, 1965

Another obscure 45 rpm from the vault of onxidlib!  This one is for the “completists” only as the jazz content is almost nonexistent.  It is pure easy-listening, well played (it’s Dusko, what would you expect?) and pleasant, pretty similar to the material Shake Keane recorded at about the same time for Ace of Club / DECCA (That’s the Noise LP).

Side A: Yesterday 2:25

Side B: Blumen Für Die Dame 3:07

Dusko Goykovich, fluegelhorn

with the Electrola-Studio-Orchestra and Choir

Recorded 1965 in Germany.

ELECTROLA E 23 096

No details on the musicians (‘the Electrola Studio Orchestra”).

I don’t think I’ll have the time for another post before Xmas.  In the meantime, my best wishes to all & have a jazzy Christmas wherever you are.

RARITY #51

HANS KOLLER NEW JAZZ STARS
"HANS KOLLER COOL JAZZ"
EP MANHATTAN 66035C (EP)        GERMANY, 1958  

Onxidlib sent me a rip of this rare little EP several months ago.  I hesitated a long time before posting it because it was not in too good condition despite onx' efforts to clean it.  

But there is only so much one could do and  

it is the only occasion probably for most of us to hear this beautiful music ... so here it is.

If anyone has a better copy or the complete Bertelsmanm LP, I'd be delighted to post it.

Albert Mangelsdorff is especially good on these tracks.


Albert Mangelsdorff, trombone
Hans Koller, tenor saxophone
Helmuth Reinhardt, baritone saxophone  
Hans Hammerschmid, piano
Peter Trunk, bass
Rudi Sehring, drums

A1. Hard Blues (Mangelsdorff)
A2. Back In Paradise (Hammerschmid)

B.  I'll Close My Eyes (Reid)

Recorded March 26 - 28, 1958 in Baden-Baden, Germany.

Original (?) release on BERTELSMANN 7753 (LP) with seven more titles.

P.S :  at the request of visitors, I am reposting Wolfang Lauth's Life Dance and the last track of Stanley Cowell 's Blues for Viet Cong.

Get' em while it lasts!!!

BOOTLEG - 1970

DEUTSCHE JAZZ FESTIVAL BIG BAND  "FRANKFURT, 1970"

Frankfurt

Pretty busy these days and not much time for blogging,  Moreover I need to go back home and rip some new material  (I have over 50 LPs never re-issued on CD and never seen in the blogsphere waiting to be cleaned, ripped and posted). That's what I'll do between Xmas and New Year, ripping LPs and drinking muled wine.

Luckily, the one and only onxidlib came to the rescue with another piece of modern archeology, an unreleased live performance of a large German All Stars Big Band recorded in 1970 at the 12th Deutsches Jazz Festival.

Just look at the names, they're all there.  The music is ambitious, very much a reflection of its time.  It means some controled madness - the influence of free jazz is still very prevalent in European jazz of the early seventies, and the band is led by Mr. Albert Mangelsdorff!  But the sun  always shines after the storm.  

For instance the Gunter Lenz's composition "Intoxication" starts in a fairly free manner but rapidly everything falls into place and order succeeds to chaos.    

If you dig seventies progressive big bands, this one 's for you.

  

Albert Mangelsdorff - Volker Kriegel (1973)
source: wikipedia - commons

Band

Conny Jackel, trumpet

Frédéric Rabold, trumpet

Manfred Schoof, trumpet

Ferenc Aszodi, trumpet

Albert Mangelsdorff, trombone

Rudi Fuesers, trombone

Egon Christmann, trombone

Peter Herbolzheimer, trombone

Emil Mangelsdorff, alto saxophone, flute

Heinz Sauer, alto & tenor saxophone

Gerd Dudek, soprano & tenor saxophone

Walter "Joki" Freund, soprano & tenor saxophone

Günter Kronberg, baritone saxophone

Volker Kriegel, guitar

Fritz Hartschuh, vibes

Günter Lenz, bass

Ralf R. Hübner, drums

Kurt Bong, drums

Wolfram Röhrich & Joachim-Ernst Berendt, announcer

Tracks

1. Introduction (Röhrich & Berendt)                    02:16

2. Intoxication (G. Lenz)                                    14:03

3. Jazzminers Dance In Frankfurt (J. Freund)      11:30

4. Palazzo Blue (V. Kriegel)                               06:12

5. Noisy Silence, Gentle Noise (V. Kriegel)        06:27

Recorded at the Kongresshalle, Frankfurt on March 21, 1970.

Frankfurt, 12th Deutsches Jazzfestival 1970, first concert.

The tune "Noisy Silence, Gentle Noise" has been issued on LP (Born Free: The 12. German Jazz Festival, CBS Scout Sc-S 11).

NEW LINK - Sept. 2017

RARITY #50

NEW SOUND FROM … GERMANY  -  VOL. 5

HANS KOLLER  AND HIS NEW JAZZ STARS

25 CM VOGUE – LD 144     (FRANCE, 1953)

This is the 50th installment in the Rarity Series already.  As the name of the series implies, it is dedicated to rare and often obscure 45 rpm and 25cm, mostly European Jazz  although there have been a few exceptions (e.g. the French EPs of Mickey Baker and Tony Milton, rare but more rock/soul than jazz).  The series would never have reached #50 without the contributions of Paul D. and onxidlib and a few other occasional collaborators.  Viele dank, Merci Beaucoup, Thanks a Lot & Dank U Wel to all of them.  

This 50th installment comes from the vault of Paul D.  It is ripped from the original French Vogue 10 inch. 33 1/3 RPM. Paul was adamant that it had never been re-issued but in fact there has been a Japanese facsimile in 1998.  The re-issue was fairly confidential and has been long OOP so I have no second-thought about posting a rip.  It's 60 years old..

The music sounds very West Coast.  Should we call it German Cool?  And if you think it's an oxymoron, just give it a listen!

Credits

Tenor Saxophone – Hans Koller

Trombone – Albert Mangelsdorf*

Piano – Jutta Hipp

Bass – "Shorty" Roeder*

Drums – Karl Sanner

Tracklist

A1       The Way You Look Tonight

A2       You Go To My Head

A3       Flamingo

A4       Four Roses In An Iceblock

B1       UnTer Den Linden

B2       All The Things You Are

B3       What's New

B4       Indian Summer

Recorded May, 1953

In cooperation with Horst Lippmann of Deutsche Jazz Federation

NEW LINK (August 2017)

ANOTHER DREAM BAND

KURT EDELHAGEN ALL-STAR BAND  "WESEL 1967"

Recorded April 7, 1967 at Städtisches Bühnenhaus, Wesel, Germany - radio transcription

I can’t wait to post this new contribution from Onxidlib.  Got it this morning and here it is, on the blog!

The accurately named Kurt Edelhagen All Stars Band. 

Kurt Edelhagen orchestra at his peak with a fantastic line up: Shake Keane, Wilton Gaynair, Leo Wright, Derek Humble just to name a few ...... I wish I could travel back in time and see these guys live!

Source: http://tonyoldies.homestead.com/127thpage.html

Track 1 - 13 + 15 - 19

Kurt Edelhagen, conductor

Ellsworth "Shake" Keane, trumpet, fluegelhorn 

Horst Fischer, trumpet

Hanne Wilfert, trumpet

Rick Kiefer, trumpet

Otto Bredl, trombone

Oliver "Jiggs" Whigham, trombone

Manfred Gätjens, trombone

Helmut "Nick" Hauck, bass trombone

Heinz Kretzschmar, soprano & alto saxophone

Derek Humble, , alto saxophone

Leo Wright, alto saxophone, flute

Wilton Gaynair, tenor saxophone

Kurt "Bubi" Aderhold , baritone saxophone, flute

Bora Rokovic , piano

Peter Trunk, bass

Dai Bowen, drums

Peter Trunk - http://www.radioswissjazz.ch/cgi-bin/pip/html.cgi?lang=de&m=entity&w=Peter+Trunk

Beb Guerin
http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?artist=Beb+Guerin

Only track 14:

Rolf Kühn, clarinet

Joachim Kühn, piano

Beb Guérin, bass

Aldo Romano, drums

Dietrich Schulz-Köhn, announcer

01. Introduction (Edelhagen)                             00:37

02. Theme (K. Edelhagen)                             00:51

03. Introduction (Edelhagen + Dietrich Schulz-Köhn)     02:48

04. Avalon (B.G. DeSylva-A. Jolson-V. Rose)             02:46

05. Tippin' In (K. Edelhagen)                             04:38

06. Introduction (Dietrich Schulz-Köhn)             02:29

07. Raga Gaud Saranga (J. Mayer)                     05:15

08. I Want to Be Happy (V. Youmans-I. Caesar)             04:52

09. Introduction (Dietrich Schulz-Köhn)             01:57

10. Gensel's Message (L. Wright)                     07:20

11. Midnight in Berlin (L. Wright)                     03:12

12. The Wiggler (K. Edelhagen)                             07:01

13. Introduction (Dietrich Schulz-Köhn)             04:08

14. Highlights (K. Edelhagen)                             06:30

15. Introduction (Dietrich Schulz-Köhn)             02:32

16. Emancipation Blues (O. Nelson)                     07:24

17. Introduction (Dietrich Schulz-Köhn)             00:25

18. This Could Be the Start of Something Big (S. Allen) 05:57

19. Theme (K. Edelhagen)                             01:05

Recorded April 7, 1967 at Städtisches Bühnenhaus, Wesel, Germany.

RARITY #49

MITTERNACHT IN MUNCHEN

BRUNSWICK 86016 LBP (10") - GERMANY, 1953

This 10” was recorded just a few days after my birth. Like me, it is 60 years old, a bit scratchy but it still  swings hard!

Thanks to Onxidlib - and an anonnymous friend of his -  for unearthing this memento from a bygone era, the Golden Age of Radio! - and for taking the time to rip and clean it.

Your work is much appreciated my friend!

MITTERNACHT IN MÜNCHEN  - JUBILEE CONCERT ON THE OCCASION OF THE 500TH BROADCAST

Here is some interesting information on the Mtternacht in Munchen radio broadcast (in German):

• Mitternacht in Munchen
• Jazzreitung

TRACKS

Side A:

1. The Beat  (Gene Ammons) 2:46

2. Perdido  (Tizol/Lenk/Drake) 7:03

3. How High The Moon  (Hamilton/Lewis) 2:49

4. Night Train  (Jimmy Forrest) 3:07

Side B:

5. MIM-Boogie  (Werner Scharfenberger) 3:02

6. Muskrat Ramble  (Kid Ory) 4:12

7. The Man I Love  (George Gershwin) 3:20

8. Rosetta  (Hines/Woods) 3:42

9. Festival Riff  (Erich Becht) 1:53

TT 31:57

Track 1, 4, 8 + 9:

Max Greger Big Band;

Fritz Weichbrodt, Rudi Grätz, Harry Franke, Sepp Huber, trumpet

Max Büttermann, Fritz Gläser, Willi Schmidt, Max Höll, trombone

Hugo Strasser, alto saxophone & clarinet (solo on 8)

Herbert Peltzer, alto saxophone

Max Greger, tenor saxophone (solo on 1,2 + 4)

Heinz Eberle, Sepp Seitz, tenor saxophone

Delle Haensch, baritone saxophone

Klaus Ogermann, piano (solo on 5)

Hans Lehmann, bass

Sylo Deutsch, drums

Track 5:

Die Dixie Maximators:

Fritz Weichbrodt, trumpet

Hugo Strasser, clarinet

Max Büttermann, trombone

Klaus Ogermann, piano

Hans Lehmann, bass

Sylo Deutsch, drums

Track 2 + 3

Die Deutschen Jazz-Sieger [The German Jazz-Winners]:

Fred Bunge, trumpet (solo on 2 + 9)

Günter Fuhlisch, trombone (solo on 2 + 3)

Delle Haensch, alto saxophone

Max Greger, tenor saxophone

Paul Kuhn, piano

Max Büttermann, bass

Teddy Paris, drums

Note: Members of the German Jazz-Winners do also play on other tracks except tr.6 + 7.

Track 7:

Paul Kuhn, piano

Max Büttermann, bass

Teddy Paris, drums

Werner Götze, announcer

Recorded at the 'Deutsches Theather, Munich on May 4, 1953 on the occaison of the 500th broadcast of "Mitternacht in München".  (Mitternacht is midnight..).