A.R.PENCK+DENNIS CHARLES+LISLE ELLIS LP PRIVATE-FREE JAZZ-IMPROVISATION-RARE

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A.R. PENCK / DENNIS "KING" CHARLES / LISLE ELLIS / ETC,

 ENDLESS JAZZ LP

Private 

Extremely rare original private release from the mid-80's documenting a free improvisation session between visual artist A.R. Penck with the legend Dennis Charles and many other musicians.

Some info on the release:  Rare original issue, released in Germany privately in the same series of A.R. Penck records (where appeared artists like Peter Kowald, Martin Kippenberger, Markus Oehlen, Albert Oehlen, Alan Silva, Billy Bang, Jeanne Lee, Frank Lowe, etc.). This one as i saw on the popsike site sold for 305$ on ebay some years ago...

Penck was born in Dresden, Germany. In his early teens he took painting and drawing lessons with Jürgen Böttcher, known by the pseudonym Strawalde, and joined with him to form the renegade artists’ group Erste Phalanx Nedserd (de) (“Dresden” spelled backward). He later worked for a year as a trainee draftsman at the state advertising agency in Dresden. After failing to gain admission to the fine-arts academies in Dresden and East Berlin, Penck worked for several years as a stoker, a newspaper deliverer, a margarine packer and a night watchman.  Penck became one of the foremost exponents of new figuration alongside Jörg Immendorff, Georg Baselitz and Markus Lüpertz in East Germany. Under the East German communist regime, they were watched by the secret police and were considered dissidents. In the late 1970s they were included in shows in West Berlin and were seen as exponents of free speech in the East. Their work was shown by major museums and galleries in the West throughout the 1980s. They were included in a number of important shows including the famous Zeitgeist exhibition in the well-known Martin Gropius Bau museum and the important New Art show at the Tate in 1983.  Penck first attracted attention with a series of paintings and sculptures, made in the 1960s and early 1970s, that he called Standarts, a conflation of "standard" and "art", with an echo of the German word for banner or flag, Standarte. In the 1980s he became known worldwide for paintings with pictographic, neo-primitivist imagery of human figures and other totemic forms. He was included in many important shows both in London and New York City.  A keen drummer, he was a member and with Frank Wollny co-founder of the free jazz group Triple Trip Touch (aka T.T.T. or TTT) and took every opportunity to play with some of the best Jazz musicians of the late 1980s including Butch Morris, Frank Wright, Billy Bang, Louis Moholo and Frank Lowe, organising events at his country mansion in Heimbach in 1990 involving installations by Lennie Lee, performances by Anna Homler and paintings by Christine Kuhn.

Dennis Charles was born in St. Croix, Virgin Islands, and first played bongos at age seven with local ensembles in the Virgin Islands. In 1945 he moved to New York, and gigged frequently around town. In 1954 he began working with Cecil Taylor, and the pair collaborated through 1958. Following this he played with Steve Lacy, Gil Evans, and Jimmy Giuffre. He befriended Ed Blackwell, and the two influenced each other.  He recorded with Sonny Rollins on a calypso-tinged set, and then returned to time with Lacy, with whom he played until 1964. He worked with Archie Shepp and Don Cherry in 1967 and then disappeared from the record until 1971. In the 1970s and 1980s he played regularly on the New York jazz scene with Frank Lowe, David Murray, Charles Tyler, Billy Bang, and others, and also played funk, rock, and traditional Caribbean music. He released three discs as a leader between 1989-1992, and died in New York City in 1998.

Condition: Vinyl lies in mint condition, looks new (is unplayed), while cover is super clean with some extra light corner bend on top right, making it mint minus condition (see picture).

Tracklist

Credits

• Bass – Frank Wollny (tracks: B), Lisle Ellis (tracks: A)
• Cover – A.R. Penck
• Drums – Coen Aalberts (tracks: A), Dennis "King" Charles
• Flute, Piano – A.R. Penck (tracks: B)
• Guitar – Frank Wollny (tracks: A)
• Keyboards – A.R. Penck (tracks: A)
• Saxophone – C. Sharpe (tracks: A)

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