Д.Д. Posted March 19, 2011 Report Posted March 19, 2011 (edited) The man just turned 70! Hard to believe. Still doing his thing, touring very actively. http://www.peterbroetzmann.com/ Edited March 19, 2011 by Д.Д. Quote
AndrewHill Posted March 19, 2011 Author Report Posted March 19, 2011 Happy Birthday Brotz The man never seems to sit still, and that's a good thing! Quote
mjazzg Posted March 19, 2011 Report Posted March 19, 2011 Bringing the Tentet to London next month. First time. Very excited. Man's a musical marvel Quote
David Ayers Posted March 19, 2011 Report Posted March 19, 2011 Bringing the Tentet to London next month. First time. Very excited. Man's a musical marvel ...and you thought you'd drum up trade by telling everybody where and when...? Quote
mjazzg Posted March 19, 2011 Report Posted March 19, 2011 (edited) Cafe Oto, dalston, London 18-20 April. see you there? Edited March 19, 2011 by mjazzg Quote
David Ayers Posted March 19, 2011 Report Posted March 19, 2011 Cafe Oto, dalston, London 18-20 April. see you there? Yes! I am gonna rope in my nephew, he's a bit of a muso... We'll be the ones drinking beer and falling over. Quote
Steve Reynolds Posted March 20, 2011 Report Posted March 20, 2011 70th Birthdat tribute @ Vision Fest in early June On Wednesday, June 8th, we celebrate a lifetime of achievement by the great saxophone and clarinet player, Peter Brötzmann. First European musician to be honored at the Vision Festival, Peter Brötzmann has been a leading voice in the Creative Jazz field for more than forty years. We are delighted to present his duo with drummer Hamid Drake, his quintet with Ken Vandermark, Mars Williams, Kent Kessler and Hamid Drake and his quartet with Joe McPhee, Eric Revis and Nasheet Waits. Quote
AndrewHill Posted March 21, 2011 Author Report Posted March 21, 2011 70th Birthdat tribute @ Vision Fest in early June On Wednesday, June 8th, we celebrate a lifetime of achievement by the great saxophone and clarinet player, Peter Brötzmann. First European musician to be honored at the Vision Festival, Peter Brötzmann has been a leading voice in the Creative Jazz field for more than forty years. We are delighted to present his duo with drummer Hamid Drake, his quintet with Ken Vandermark, Mars Williams, Kent Kessler and Hamid Drake and his quartet with Joe McPhee, Eric Revis and Nasheet Waits. Nice! That gives me enough time to plan to attend Quote
clifford_thornton Posted March 21, 2011 Report Posted March 21, 2011 I hope to attend as well. May see you there. Quote
CJ Shearn Posted March 21, 2011 Report Posted March 21, 2011 I've tried VERY hard, watching various youtube clips, listened to some of "Machine Gun" and I just can't get into it, I'll keep trying I guess..... It's weird that I love things like Trane "Live in Japan" and "Song X" but not Brotzmann. I think the most interesting thing about his approach is like tonally he takes a cue from Hawk and applies it in a free idiom. Quote
clifford_thornton Posted March 21, 2011 Report Posted March 21, 2011 He's a big Hawk fan, indeed. I would say Song X and Live in Japan are much more melodically easy to get into than much of Brotzmann's work. The quartet with McPhee, Kessler, and Zerang might be a good place for you to start - dip into Tales out of Time on Hat Hut, for example, which is a favorite of mine. Quote
AndrewHill Posted March 21, 2011 Author Report Posted March 21, 2011 He's a big Hawk fan, indeed. I would say Song X and Live in Japan are much more melodically easy to get into than much of Brotzmann's work. The quartet with McPhee, Kessler, and Zerang might be a good place for you to start - dip into Tales out of Time on Hat Hut, for example, which is a favorite of mine. Yeah, I was trying to think of recommendations too (great rec Clifford!). The Chicago Tentet material may also serve as a good starting point too. I found Stone/Water and Images, both on Okka Disk, to be fairly assessable as well. Give him another try, there's a lot of great music to be discovered here! Quote
CJ Shearn Posted March 21, 2011 Report Posted March 21, 2011 (edited) Thanks for the recs. Stuff with no discernable melody isn't a problem for me, it might just be Brotz' full throttle intensity that I've grappled with. "Machine Gun" and "Balls" remind me of "Ascension" levels of intensity x20 on steroids. I can't afford to buy more discs at the moment so I will see if Rhapsody has them and check them out there. I read an interview with Brotzmann once and like Cecil Taylor, his listening tastes seemed to be some of the most inside stuff you can think of, pretty funny. I also find it cool that players like Eric Revis and Nasheet Waits are in his quartet b/c we think of them as mainstream players but they can play free too, I heard Revis play outside on "Braggtown" by Branford. Edited March 21, 2011 by CJ Shearn Quote
clifford_thornton Posted March 21, 2011 Report Posted March 21, 2011 Balls isn't one of my favorites, but Machine Gun is a classic - that said, it's certainly not for everybody. I think his recent material is much more "traditionally melodic" though some of the Tentet stuff can get a little rackety. Quote
king ubu Posted March 21, 2011 Report Posted March 21, 2011 Will catch the Tentet + 1 on April 17 in Zurich... if any Londoners are thinking of dropping by, I'll treat you to some beers! Quote
David Ayers Posted March 21, 2011 Report Posted March 21, 2011 Will catch the Tentet + 1 on April 17 in Zurich... if any Londoners are thinking of dropping by, I'll treat you to some beers! That's good because beer in Zurich is not cheap! Quote
clifford_thornton Posted March 21, 2011 Report Posted March 21, 2011 Cecil, like Bill Dixon, didn't start as an avant-garde musician - especially when you note that he came up in Harlem in the late '40s/early '50s. I think of him as a bebopper at heart, and a player of lyrical subtlety whose fondness for the crooners doesn't go unnoticed. But then I might be in the minority. Quote
Niko Posted March 21, 2011 Report Posted March 21, 2011 Thanks for the recs. Stuff with no discernable melody isn't a problem for me, it might just be Brotz' full throttle intensity that I've grappled with. "Machine Gun" and "Balls" remind me of "Ascension" levels of intensity x20 on steroids. I can't afford to buy more discs at the moment so I will see if Rhapsody has them and check them out there. I read an interview with Brotzmann once and like Cecil Taylor, his listening tastes seemed to be some of the most inside stuff you can think of, pretty funny. I also find it cool that players like Eric Revis and Nasheet Waits are in his quartet b/c we think of them as mainstream players but they can play free too, I heard Revis play outside on "Braggtown" by Branford. no idea whether this works in your corner of the world, but overhere quite a few Brotzmann albums can be heard on www.deezer.com Quote
king ubu Posted March 21, 2011 Report Posted March 21, 2011 no idea whether this works in your corner of the world, but overhere quite a few Brotzmann albums can be heard on www.deezer.com Hey, if you'd be bold enough to sit through the Brözziman Onzetet, I'd treat you to some beer, too! Quote
AndrewHill Posted March 26, 2011 Author Report Posted March 26, 2011 Just found some incredible Globe Unity Orchestra concert footage from 1970: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uMhfDPDjKU&feature=related Quote
David Ayers Posted March 26, 2011 Report Posted March 26, 2011 Just found some incredible Globe Unity Orchestra concert footage from 1970: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uMhfDPDjKU&feature=related thanks for posting this!! Quote
AndrewHill Posted March 26, 2011 Author Report Posted March 26, 2011 Here's more with some great Derek Bailey footage! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg3Ah92O2wg and more still... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ8B0jKHL6k&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDXq3n9D_yM&feature=related Quote
clifford_thornton Posted March 26, 2011 Report Posted March 26, 2011 Thanks for these. Beautiful. Quote
Guest Bill Barton Posted March 28, 2011 Report Posted March 28, 2011 konstruKt & Peter Brötzmann - Kurtlar Thanks to Umut Çağlar for posting this on Facebook. Quote
Д.Д. Posted April 11, 2011 Report Posted April 11, 2011 "Hotta Lotta", a '73 quartet recording with Kowald, Vesala and Aaltonen has been reissued: http://www.rocket-records.com/hot_lotta Quote
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