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Jazzin' Around Europe
Tampere Jazz Happening 2003
Francesco Martinelli
Italian writer, educator and general provocateur...Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet, with Swede Mats Gustafsson on baritone, started with the custom sonic assault, but after clearing the air and the ears of the audience proceeded through a series of episodes, loosely organized by the leader on a graphic score and ranging from dynamic small group improvisation through melodic, microtonal excursions by Brotzmann on tarogato (the wooden and conic shaped Hungarian clarinet) backed by slow moving chords played by the ensemble led by trombonist Jeb Bishop. The group is very strong in energy and invention, with Vandermark, McPhee and cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm especially poignant in their solos.
The festival was closed by a jam session, hosted by Bjorkenheim again; his opening solo performance was much more open and varied than his “official” set, and then he was joined among others by Gustafsson, McPhee, Drake and Poulsen for a free for all that accompanied the audience in the club to the small hours of the morning, as if nobody wanted really this feast to end.
