Jazz Articles about Peter Brötzmann

Peter Brötzmann: A Night In Sana'a

by Mark Corroto
January 30, 2010

Reaching across cultures is nothing new for jazz artists, and certainly jazz (by definition) is the amalgamation of ethnic European, African, Afro-Cuban and American blues music. With this recording by free jazz patriarch Peter Brötzmann in Yemen, the junction is not only of different cultures but of different centuries.

Record label chief Uli Armbruster shared recordings of traditional Yemeni music with the saxophonist, convincing him to travel to Sana'a in 2004 to perform. He arrived with Chicagoan and ...

Peter Brotzmann: Die Like A Dog

by Clifford Allen
December 19, 2009

Peter Brotzmann Die Like a Dog Jazzwerkstatt 2008

German reedman-composer Peter Brotzmann is, despite an immense catalog spanning over forty years of activity in free music, criminally underrepresented in the format of a “standard" piano-less quartet. From reed-heavy octets and orchestras to the winds-bass-drums power trio, not to mention a long-running trio with percussion and piano, most of the possible formations have been covered. His Die Like A Dog Quartet was the one entry ...

Peter Brotzmann: Lost & Found

by Nic Jones
November 24, 2009

It's important to point out that this is Peter Brötzmann entirely solo on various reeds because, with this particular advocate of the free, the solo context has always amounted to something entirely different to his group work. As an unaccompanied soloist, he has always been an antithesis of Evan Parker's seamless flow on soprano sax in particular, as if Brötzmann's accommodation within the moment is of a radically different order.

That's best highlighted here by ..."Got A Hole In It," ...

Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet in Amsterdam, February 13

by John Sharpe
February 27, 2009

Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet Bimhuis Amsterdam, Netherlands February 12, 2009

How many larger instrumental ensembles endure for over ten years with the core of the line-up unchanged? In the economic climate of the last decade, not many. All the more remarkable, then, that the Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet, which draws its membership from two continents, is now thriving in its eleventh year. Embarking on their latest European tour, the band descended on Amsterdam's ...

Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet: Bridging the Future with the Past

by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
February 5, 2009

There may not be a more creative group of artists anywhere within the boundaries of any art form than those within the Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet. These are individuals that comprehensively understand their responsibility to art and it is only through this level of integrity and creativity that art can, and will continue to move forward. Thus, it is completely mystifying and disheartening that this group of brilliant artists from Germany, Sweden, Norway, Chicago and New York remain relatively unknown ...

Sonore: Ukrainian Debut

by Alex Martynov
January 13, 2009

SonoreMaria Zankovetska Drama TheatreLviv, UkraineDecember 14, 2008This year Jazz Bez, one of the biggest jazz festivals in Ukraine, had a final episode that was a performance by one of the most radical jazz projects--Sonore: three saxophonists, each representing his own generation, his own country, his own musical ethos. The personnel? The oldest, without a question, living free-jazz legend--the jazz-berserk German Peter Brotzmann; alongside him, Chicagoan industrious saxophonist Ken Vandermark, who can easily earn ...

Peter Brotzmann at the London Jazz Festival 2008

by Marcus O'Dair
December 5, 2008

Peter BrotzmannLondon Jazz Festival 2008Purcell RoomLondon, EnglandNovember 15, 2008

Peter Brotzmann must have one of the most undeviatingly linear careers in modern jazz. A full 40 years after his landmark Machine Gun album and fast approaching 70 years of age, the German multi- reedist is still best known for a take on improv rarely matched in its unremitting ferocity.

Certainly, tonight's set had its moments of brutalist, berserker onslaught--particularly compared to ...