Jazz Articles about Gunter Baby Sommer

Gunter Baby Sommer / Manfred Schoof / Gianluigi Trovesi / Barre Phillips: Peitzer Grand Mit Vieren

by Andrey Henkin
February 6, 2010

This 1981 live set, taken from the Jazzwerkstatt Peitz at one time the biggest jazz festival in Germany outside of Berlin, organized by Ulli Blobel and Peter Metag, is a discographist's dream. It presents the earliest official recording of bassist Barre Phillips playing with trumpeter Manfred Schoof (predating Gunter Hampel's Jubilation (Birth, 1983) by over two years) and drummer Günter Baby Sommer (a trio date, Reserve (FMP, 1989), with Peter Brötzmann, was recorded in November 1988). Additionally, it is a ...