Toto Blanke 1936-2013

[HolgerFreimutSchrick]

The German jazz guitarist has died. He has worked with Jeremy Steig, Joachim and Rolf Kühn, Randy Brecker, Jan Akkerman, Philip Catherine, Charlie Mariano, John Lee and Gerry Brown.

see: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toto_Blanke

[king ubu]

hardly know his work, but still, sad news

[mikeweil]

R.I.P.

He was an ubiquitous presence on the scene from 1975 well through the 1980's, after that I lost sight of him.

That quartet with percussionist Marcio Doctor from 1992, what label was that made for?

[Homefromtheforest]

I loved his two Electric Circus lps with Edward Vesala...

[Cyril]

No reunion for World's first fusion/rock/jazz super group. Association P.C. .....

Association P.C. was founded in 1969 by Dutch keyboarder Jasper van't Hof along with the Dutch drummer Pierre Courbois and the German guitarist Toto Blanke.

The bassist was sometimes the Dutchman Peter Krijnen, sometimes the German Sigi Busch.

Association P.C released their first record "Sun Rotation" in 1971.

The band produced a synthesis of jazz, rock and avantgarde music reminding sometimes Soft Machine and was highly acclaimed at the Berlin Jazztage of 1971.

In 1972 the band released their second record "Erna Morena", the last with Jasper van't Hof who left the band to form Pork Pie with Charlie Mariano and Philip Catherine.

On the 1973 release "Rock Around The Clock"he was replaced by German pianist Joachim Kühn.

The record moved away from the Canterbury oriented sound and integrated free-jazz elements.

Their last record "Mama Kuku" (1974) contained live recordings from 1973, on which the band was joined by American flute player Jeremy Steig.

Association P.C. continued to tour until 1975.

Toto Blanke R.I.P. !!!

Edited October 29, 2013 by Cyril