ICP 10-TET - Tetterettet (1977)

There was a request for this one, so another dip into the archives.

This is a tentet recording from 1977, out on the ICP's own label, and comprising a, shall we say, star-studded bunch of continental free jazzers. Not your usual 40-minute blow-out, but a genre-bending exercise in burlesquerie, circus, old-style waltz, march tunes and what not. Not unlike what the Willem Breuker Kollektief would get up to (with which this troupe is strongly connected). Altogether jolly delightful, I'd say.

Line - up:

Misha Mengelberg, piano;

John Tchicai, alto and soprano saxophones;

Gilius Van Bergeyk, alto saxophone, oboe;

Peter Bennink, alto and sopranino saxophones;

Peter Brötzmann, alto, tenor and baritone saxophones;

Bert Koppelaar, trombone;

Tristan Honsinger, cello;

Michel Waisvisz, crackle box;

Alan Silva, bass;

Han Bennink, drums, bass clarinet.

Tracks:

Tetterettet V + VI (04.53)

Tetterettet IX (04.36)

Tetterettet XII (01.03)

Tetterettet XIV (07.24)

TetterettetXV (06.41)

Alexander's marschbefehl (07.10)

Rumboon (03.34)

Kwik kwek kwak (03.17)

Valse trouvée (02.37)

Ludwig's blue note (04.57)

Dank (01.17)

Recorded on 14-17 September 1977 at Uithoorn, Amsterdam and Utrecht.

The record was posted on the Swami Hermeticus Solus blog which appears to have folded and as a contiguous side one and two. Anybody is free to split the sides into separate tracks, if one should so wish, but I'm reposting it as it was.

Enjoy! (I did)