MANFRED SCHOOF - EUROPEAN ECHOES RARE VINYL LP 1969 FMP 0010 NM/NM
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Description
This import record and cover are in near mint condition. The cover has little or no wear and the record appears unplayed and looks new. 1969.
German trumpeter Manfred Schoof, whose work in the '60s focused on the possibilities of the big band in a free jazz context, presented a half-hour free improvisation for German radio in June 1969 that was later released by the FMP label as European Echoes and still later unearthed by Atavistic as part of their estimable Unheard Music reissue series. European Echoes is primarily of interest to free jazz historians and fanciers of the extreme. The historians will be dazzled by the all-star lineup of this 16-member band, featuring guitarist Derek Bailey, saxophonists Evan Parker and Peter Brötzmann, and pianists Fred Van Hove and Alexander von Schlippenbach, all of whom would lead landmark avant jazz sessions of their own. But will the noiseniks be?Well, let's just let the figures speak for themselves: three trumpets, three saxes, two trombones (one of whom doubles on bass), Derek Bailey's proto-Sonic Youth freakout guitar, three pianos, two dedicated bassists (besides the guy who's doubling on bass trombone), and two drummers. All of them going at it full tilt for close to 15 minutes before breaking off into their instrumental groupings for no-less-intense duos and trios. It sounds like it should be a free jazzer's paradise, and there's no denying that the intensity level throughout is amazingly high. The problem is that this enormous band, playing at top volume, is simply too much for the less-than-top-line recording gear that was capturing all this, and for frustratingly long periods (especially in the piece's unison first section), it's all but impossible to pick out what are obviously some inspired individual performances. Schoof may well argue that this was the point, of course.
Label: FMP – FMP 0010 Format: Vinyl, LP, AlbumCountry: Germany Released: 1969 Genre: Jazz Style: Free Jazz, Free Improvisation
Tracklist
A European Echoes Part 1 15:33 B European Echoes Part 2 15:32Credits
- Bass – Arjen Gorter, Buschi Niebergall, Peter Kowald
- Drums – Han Bennink, Pierre Favre
- Guitar – Derek Bailey
- Piano – Alexander von Schlippenbach, Fred Van Hove, Irène Schweitzer*
- Saxophone – Evan Parker
- Tenor Saxophone – Gerd Dudek, Peter Brötzmann
- Trumpet – Enrico Rava, Hugh Steinmetz, Manfred Schoof
- Tuba – Paul Rutherford (2)
Notes
Recorded June 1969, Bremen, Germany.
This is the blue cover 3rd edition with white labels.
Manfred Schoof grew up perfecting his innovative jazz style, often practicing on either his jazz trumpet or his flügelhorn. By the time he reached high school, Schoof was composing his own arrangements. In 1955, Schoof decided to purse a musical career, enrolling in the Music Academy (Musikakademie) at Kassel. After studying and performing there for three years, he moved to further his studies at the Cologne Musikhochschule. While there, Schoof took a jazz class by Kurt Edelhagen, a West German bandleader who also had his own radio program. Schoof and Edelhagen established a musical connection, with the pupil contributing to the teacher's Radio Big Band radio show. At the same time, Schoof began touring with Gunter Hampel. In 1965, Schoof created a free jazz quintet with Gerd Dudek and Alex Von Schlippenbach. It would be the foundation for another band he formed in 1969, the Manfred Schoof Orchestra. The group toured throughout Germany and Europe, featuring Evan Parker and Irène Schweizer, among others. In 1969, he joined the George Russell Orchestra and stayed with the band until 1971. Throughout the next two decades, Schoof expanded his musical horizons, recording and performing with several groups, including Global Unity Orchestra and Jasper Van't Hof. He also began composing classical music pieces, often composing them for the Berlin Philharmonic.
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