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Featuring John Surman, Albert Mangelsdorff and more (European Poll Winner Sextet)
France 1970 [no label, 1CD]
Festival de Châteauvallon. Live at the Amphithéâtre en plein-air, Châteauvallon, France; August 6, 1970. Very good satellite broadcast.
Thanks to henrymucca for sharing the show at Dime.
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John Surman is an English jazz saxophone, bass clarinet and synthesizer player, and composer of free jazz and modal jazz, often using themes from folk music as a basis. Many of the musical relationships he established during the 1970s have continued to the present. These include a quartet with pianist John Taylor, bassist Chris Laurence, and drummer John Marshall; duets and other projects with Norwegian singer Karin Krog; and duets and other projects with American drummer/pianist Jack DeJohnette. Other musicians he has worked with include bassist Miroslav Vitous, bandleader Gil Evans, pianist Paul Bley and Vigleik Storaas, guitarists Terje Rypdal and John Abercrombie and trumpeter Tomasz Stańko. In recent years he has composed several suites of music that feature his playing in unusual contexts, including with church organ and chorus (Proverbs and Songs, 1996); with a classical string quintet (Coruscating); and with the London Brass and Jack DeJohnette (Free and Equal, 2001).
Albert Mangelsdorff was a German jazz trombonist. Working mainly in free jazz, he was an innovator in multiphonics. He passed away in 2005 at the age of 76.
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Track 01. Maiden Voyage 4:05
Track 02. Dom Dom Dom 5:18
Track 03. Open Space 8:16
Track 04. Shiny Stockings 4:34
Track 05. Triple Play 15:35
Track 06. Surman’s Waltz 8:50
Track 07. You Don’t Know What Love Is 6:56
Track 08. ‘Round About Midnight 6:08
Track 09. Sonny Moon For Two 17:38
Track 10. Est Ce Tout 5:01
83 mins
European Poll Winner Sextet:
John Surman - soprano sax, baritone sax
Albert Mangelsdorff - trombone
François ‘Francy’ Boland - piano
Eddy Louiss - electric organ
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen - double bass
Daniel Humair - drums
Karin Krog - vocals
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