Музыка и песни Mangelsdorff, Albert / Mangelsdorff, Albert на LP

Artist: Albert Mangelsdorff Label: Sonorama (Groove Attack)

'Now's The Time - Deep German Jazz Grooves 1956 - 1965' ist eine neue Compilation mit faszinierenden & raren Modern Jazz Titeln legendärer deutscher Musiker wie Albert & Emil Mangelsdorff, Rolf Kühn, Inge Brandenburg, Michael Naura, Joki Freund, Horst Jan Style: Jazz

A heady mix indeed; stirring jazz overtures with orchestra and choir, festival performances recorded live from the grassy heartlands of central Europe, modal montages inspired by pilgrimages to Asia and Africa, experiments in rhythm and sound where modern jazz meets traditional Balkan and Flamenco folk music. This is Spiritual Jazz – European style. Record Label: Jazzman Style: Jazz

Record Label: Sonorama Style: Jazz

Audiophile Vinyl. This album of duos stands out as one of a kind; recorded during a phase in which he began to consistently incorporate a freer musical language into his playing, and set within a constellation of diverse duo formations, there emerges an exciting portrait of the central figure in German jazz: Albert Mangelsdorff. With tongue in cheek – or better said – in mouthpiece, Mangelsdorff accompanies Don Cherry on a journey that culminates in a zany duel staged almost without instruments. With his close friend Elvin Jones, Mangelsdorff unfurls so many melodic and metric parameters that one could believe they are listening to a full combo that dissolves conventional time patterns into kaleidoscopic polyrhythms, whereas the colorful tonal confrontation between Karl Berger’s agile, inspired vibes and the questioning, challenging trombone stands out as a lesson in Avant-garde brainstorming. A rollicking, mischievous nocturne intertwined with a bit of mystery is woven out of the conversation between Mangelsdorff’s trombone and Attila Zoller’s dreamy guitar play. Because a long, close artistic partnership conjoins Saxophonist Lee Konitz and Mangelsdorff, they seem to be able to breath with one breath as they generate the synergetic dynamics and dramaturgy of their short “Al – Lee”. On the album’s last piece, a lyrical, bluesy sensibility shines through pianist Wolfgang Dauner’s and Mangelsdorff’s interplay. Recorded over an 18 month period, the album paints an intimate, playful portrait of one of the most significant personalities in jazz – not just “made in Germany”, but mirrored in the contrasting styles and close friendships of his fellow musicians Record Label: MPS Music Style: Jazz

Albert Mangelsdorff, the German trombonist who died aged 76 last year, helped burst open the sonic possibilities and athleticism of a famously lethargic instrument. German label Skip Records has issued the 1979 Hamburg live recording with Norwegian bass star Arild Andersen and Swiss drummer Pierre Favre that Mangelsdorff called "the most thrilling trio recording" of his career. It sat in the vaults for a quarter-century, but the music is so vivacious, you'd have thought they could have heard it fizzing away deep in the box. Both Mangelsdorff and Andersen bring a remarkable lightness and delicacy to their heavyweight instruments. The title track's rocking riff hints at Mangelsdorff's trad-jazz apprenticeship, his trombone descending to a tuba's depths, and the free-floating Soulbird mingles didgeridoo-like huffing, Mangelsdorff's famous blown-and-sung harmony playing and Andersen's lithe bass variations. The threesome rockets through most of its awesome arsenal on the 14-minute Warbling Warbler, from bop-swing and free improv to timbral adventures that sound as if six musicians were playing rather than three. The themes are whimsically gripping; they make terrific springboards for improvising, and Favre is both a percussion sorcerer and a lightly dancing swinger. Trombone, bass and drums may not sound like a promising combination, but this is cutting-edge jazz-improv with an idiosyncratically buoyant lyricism. Record Label: Skip Records Style: Jazz