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John Tchicai-Irene Schweizer Group: Willi The Pig
by AAJ Staff
August 1975 heralded the first Willisau Jazz Festival in Switzerland. The performance by the quartet featuring Danish saxophonist John Tchicai and Swiss pianist Irene Schweizer made its way into a pair of microphones, and shortly thereafter onto a limited edition LP--which of course went right out of print. Free jazz afficionados interested in the active European improv scene of the '70s will be grateful to know that they can now get their hands on this document without hunting endlessly through ...
Continue ReadingJohn Tchicai/Irene Schweizer Group: Willi the Pig
by Derek Taylor
Another rarity excised from the attic of time this recording was taped at the first Willisau Jazz Festival, an event that has since provided a forum for some of the finest groups in improvised music. Released initially in a run of 500 copies it quickly went out of print and has since never been reissued. At Schweizer’s behest John Corbett opted to include it in his Unheard Music Series and the results of that fateful and far-reaching day are finally ...
Continue ReadingJohn Tchicai: John Tchicai's Infintesimal Flash
by Glenn Astarita
With Infinitesimal Flash revered woodwind specialist John Tchicai teams with the extremely talented tenor saxophonist Francis Wong which makes for a formidable and thoroughly adventurous front-line sax section. As one would presuppose, the musicians explore the outer reaches of jazz boundaries by incorporating power, tenacity and divergent ideologies while merging world beat motifs in seamless fashion. The fun begins on the opening track titled, “Kippiology” featuring the explosive rhythms supplied by bassist Adam Lane and drummer Mat Marucci in support ...
Continue ReadingJohn Tchicai / Charlie Kohlhase Quintet: Life Overflowing
by Robert Spencer
The vibrant and beautiful music on this disc is an example of continuity, or of a living tradition, or maybe just of what can happen when a group of great musicians who are intent simply on playing honest music get together to play. John Tchicai, of course, was a member of the large ensemble John Coltrane assembled to record his ground-breaking and notorious Ascension. You can hear that history hear and there on this disc - just in snatches on ...
Continue ReadingMusic of John Tchicai played by Ok Nok..Kongo: Moonstone Journey
by Glenn Astarita
The highly revered saxophonist-composer John Tchicai has performed with larger than life jazz icons such as John Coltrane, Archie Shepp and was a member of the now legendary “New York Art Quartet”. Besides his long-standing influence on the avant-garde scene, Tchicai has been actively involved in the burgeoning Danish “modern jazz” scene. Spirited contributions to Pierre Dorge’s New Jungle Orchestra on this years “Giraf” cd (see AAJ July ’99 review) and other stouthearted engagements have proven noteworthy as Mr. Tchicai ...
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