Jazz Articles about Manfred Schoof

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Manfred Schoof: European Echoes

Read "European Echoes" reviewed by Fran Kursztejn

by Fran Kursztejn
April 27, 2025

Manfred Schoof's European Echoes is popularly characterized as a diamond in the rough, with emphasis on the rough. Boasting a cast filled with near every mainstay of the erupting European free jazz style, amounting to 16 independent players, most awarded their own solo, duet or section improvisation in the record's second half, audio technology of the '60s was perhaps incapable of ever doing it justice, and certainly not the spotty radio recording that has caged it for 50 years.

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Tony Oxley Quintet: Angular Apron

Read "Angular Apron" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
September 1, 2024

Among the most welcome jazz events of 2024 is the return to active duty of the great British saxophonist Larry Stabbins following an absence of over a decade. Stabbins went into voluntary exile in 2013, after around thirty-five years at the deep end of British jazz. Disenchanted with the culturally regressive direction in which the music and its ecology seemed to be heading, he even went so far as selling his tenor. But things change, and towards the end of ...

Liner Notes

Heiner Stadler: Brains on Fire

by Howard Mandel
April 14, 2023

Brains on Fire fuels reflection on the past and response in the present. These eight extraordinary extended tracks, recorded in unusual conjunctions of master jazz improvisers instigated by composer/pianist Heiner Stadler for sessions held from 1966 through 1974, are alive with the passions of that era celebrating large, original works stretching the bounds of even the most ambitious music come before. As Stadler and his cadre of fully collaborative, creative interpreters brought immense smarts, skills and sensibilities besides ...

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Heiner Stadler: Brains on Fire

Read "Brains on Fire" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 24, 2012

Heiner Stadler è nome pressoché sconosciuto se non agli addetti ai lavori o a qualche curioso appassionato jazzofilo. Nasce nel 1942 a Lessen in Polonia, cresce ad Amburgo dove studia pianoforte, armonia e composizione al conservatorio, per poi trasferirsi nel 1965 a New York. Qui intesse una serie di relazioni con importanti musicisti dal background assai variegato (si va sa Benny Golson a Barre Phillips, da Joe Chambers a John Gilmore e Joe Farrell, da Dee Dee Bridgewater a Thad ...

Extended Analysis

Heiner Stadler: Brains on Fire

by Hrayr Attarian
April 20, 2012

Heiner StadlerBrains on FireLabor Records2012One of the most exciting reissues of the first quarter of 2012 is composer and pianist Heiner Stadler's pioneering Brains on Fire, originally released in 1973. The two-CD reissue adds three lengthy, previously unreleased tracks and informative and well-researched liner notes by critic Howard Mandel. Interestingly, Stadler occupies the piano chair only on five of the eight pieces, recorded over a seven-year span in a ...

Album Review

Irene Schweizer - Dewan Motihar - Barney Wilen - Manfred Schoof: Jazz Meets India

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 14, 2010

Registrato nell'ottobre del 1967, tre mesi dopo la scomparsa di John Coltrane, questo incontro tra alcuni esponenti del jazz europeo e un trio di musicisti indiani si può inserire con una certa agevolezza nella temperie culturale di quegli anni, quando il mondo occidentale si apriva - non senza qualche perdonabile ingenuità - al fascino degli Orienti. L'idea fu di Joachim Ernst Berendt, critico e produttore della MPS [che l'anno successivo pubblicherà un disco ancora più significativo come Eternal Rhythm di ...

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Manfred Schoof: Resonance

Read "Resonance" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
November 16, 2009

For every artist that has achieved international attention via the exposure of ECM Records, there are countless others who seem to have been lost beneath the cracks. German trumpeter Manfred Schoof, who recorded three superb albums for the ECM-affiliated JAPO label in the 1970s, was a member of the freewheeling Globe Unity Orchestra alongside Peter Brötzmann, Evan Parker, Kenny Wheeler, and Albert Mangelsdorff, all of whom went on to greater acclaim. Resonance collects Scales (1976), Light Lines (1978), and four ...