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Zentralquartett / Synopsis: Auf Der Elbe Schwimmt Ein Rosa Krokodil
by Nic Jones
This is a reissue of music recorded in March of 1974 and first released by the FMP label in 1976. The decades haven't diminished its fire and the fact that the group has reconvened and recorded occasionally through the years since marks this as the first document of an ongoing story.
Communal improvisation is the order of the day, but echoes of New Orleans polyphony are very distant. Instead there's restlessly creative music of a radically ...
read moreZentralquartett: 11 Songs - Aus Teutschen Landen
by Derek Taylor
Attention to tradition is too often mistaken as adherence to conservative orthodoxy. In jazz, the culpability often rests at the feet of the neo-conservative crowd, a frequently demonized assembly whose stock rises and falls with regularity, depending on the body of listeners polled.
The four players who form the Zentralquartett have little time for such meta-musical squabbling. They're too busy making music that stretches the malleable and porous boundaries of improvised music to their own highly listenable designs. Like Albert ...
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