Showing posts with label Manfred Schulze. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Manfred Schulze. Show all posts

1 March 2019

HELMUT SACHSE - HANNES ZERBE "HELMUT SACHSE - HANNES ZERBE" (AMIGA, 1981)




Manfred Hering, alto saxophone (side A)
Joe Sachse, guitar (side A), flute (A1, A2)
Heiner Reinhardt, tenor saxophone (A3)
Johannes Bauer, trombone (A3)
Christoph Winckel, bass (A3)
Wolfram Dix, drums (A3)


Hannes Zerbe, piano (side B)
Dietrich Unkrodt, tuba (B1)
Manfred Schulze, baritone saxophone (B2)


A1. Weber / Parkweg 1     9:48
A2. Dispersion     5:33
A3. ~ ⊿ unis. ↷ ∞     6:38
B1. Für Sven     6:21
B2. Calvados     14:13

Side A: rec. 19./20. May 1981, Amiga-Studio Berlin
Side B: rec. 26./27. May 1981, Amiga-Studio Berlin


AMIGA 8 55 858  (vinyl rip)



27 November 2010

MANFRED SCHULZE BLÄSER QUINTETT "CHORAL-KONZERT" (AMIGA, 1988)


Another gem from Manfred Schulze.
An already almost forgotten musician with a highly original vision. Too little recordings were issued and fewer are still available. Hopefully someone will reissue this and other LPs from Amiga. For the time being...



MANFRED SCHULZE BLÄSERQUINTETT "CHORAL-KONZERT"

Johannes Bauer,tb
Manfred Hering,ts
Dietmar Diesner,as
Heiner Reinhardt,ss
Manfred Schulze,bars

1. Choral-Konzert (Part I) (Manfred Schulze) 17:39
2. Choral-Konzert (Part II) (Manfred Schulze) 16:36

Recorded: 8th January, 1988 in Berlin

AMIGA 8 56 356

19 October 2010

Berliner Improvisations Quartett - Live in Moers '79

An integration to the previous post by onxidlib.
The photo above (Manfred Schulze) is by Herb Weisrock.

Rec. live at "The 8th Moers Festival", Moers, Germany,
on June 3, 1979 (mics recording)

Manfred Schulze,baritone sax,clarinet
Hermann Keller,piano
Andreas Altenfelder,trumpet
Wilfried Staufenbiel,cello,vocal

1. Intro by Burkhard Hennen (01:03)
2. Ex Tempore III (22:06)
3. Ex Tempore IV (11:41)
4. Ein Abschied Für Jazzensemble (08:07)

Total Time 43:03

12 October 2010

BERLINER IMPROVISATIONS QUARTETT ( AMIGA, 1979)




This lp opened my ears for the Free Music scene in the GDR. It's not Free Jazz or Free Improvisation. It is a category of its own. Although the lyrics are "spoken" (a reference could be "Pierrot Lunaire" by Schönberg) in German (Beaudelaire...) the music is quite outstanding.
Really independent music - for example Andreas Altenfelder's trumpet work on track 5 or Manfred Schulze's bariton sax musings which are always insistent but never hermetic.

Manfred Schulze who was the founder of the M.S. Bläser Quintet has died 2010. From 1992 he was forced to abandon music because of a grave disease.

Hermann Keller died in 2018 - among his activities/groups is the Berliner Improvisations Trio/Quartet with Antje Messerschmidt (violin and viola), Jürgen Kupke (clarinets) and Ulrich Weber on trumpet and fluegelhorn.

Andreas Altenfelder was playing with the Willem Breuker Kollektiev for more than 20 years. Only recently a recording of his own group has been released for the first time.

 
Wilfried Staufenbiel has played with Hermann Keller later as well ("apart" from singing and leading a choir) . Keller, Staufenbiel with Ulrich Weber (tp) continued the group as a trio until Keller's demise in 2018.

This is the Amiga lp plus two more...


Manfred Schulze, baritone saxophone, clarinet
Hermann Keller, piano, vocals
Andreas Altenfelder, trumpet, vocals, flute
Wilfried Staufenbiel, cello, vocals

1. Nocturno 9:19
2. Die Augen Der Armen (Canon-Chaconne-Fantasie) 11:26
3. Ex Tempore IV (Thema Und Variationen) 10:35
4. Ostinato 9:28

Recorded 19./20.07.1979 at Amiga-Studios, Berli.

AMIGA  8 55 717(vinyl rip)

plus:

5. Sieben Viertel       08:59

Berlin, 12. August 1979
(from the Double-LP "SNAPSHOT/Jazz aus der DDR" - FMP) (vinyl rip)

6. Ein Abschied Für Jazzensemble  08:08

New Jazz Festival Moers 3rd June, 1979 (released 2008 - deleted)
(from the CD-Box "Musik in Deutschland - Jazz - Neue Musik im Jazz; Sony Music)

This are the complete issued recordings by this singular group/line-up.