Middelheim (Antwerp) - 1973

M'BOOM Repercusion
Joe Chambers, Roy Brooks, Omar Clay, Max Roach, Warren Smith, Freddie Waits
Middelheim Festival - Antwerp - 1973

I was very fortunate to attend the concert that M'Boom Repercusion gave at the Middelheim Festival in the summer of 1973.

Looking through some old concert memorabilia and archives, I found this folder presenting the band members.

I'm not posting the Strata East album.  It has been posted some years ago on the old Strata East Fan Club blog and copies are probably still floating around.

It was a disappointing album (Max Roach did not want it released), not representative of what I saw and heard at the concert.

If you want to have an idea of what it sounded like, the concert was filmed by the BRT (Flemish Radio & Television).  The video is no longer available on the Canvas website but someone has posted it on YouTube.  

Many thanks to the uploader for salvaging this video.  Wish someone had saved the other Middelheim videos that were on the Canvas website (Nucleus, ... ).

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).

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