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Peter Br: Balls

Read "Balls" reviewed by Jay Collins


Following on the heels of European Echoes, Balls was the second release by the German FMP label; it remains one of the great documents of Peter Brötzmann's core late-sixties/early-seventies trio with pianist Fred Van Hove and drummer Han Bennink. At the time of the recording, the trio had been playing together for some time, including forming ...

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Br: Balls

Read "Balls" reviewed by Derek Taylor


Balls veritably screams Sixties-style counter-culture confrontationalism. Check Bennink's gaunt pale frame, shirtless and head shaven close, standing sternly with his mates on the front cover. Or Brötzmann's hunched visage on the reverse, tenor clutched tightly in vice-grip, caught in mid-renal shout. Then there's Van Hove, sleeves rolled up, bent over the innards of his piano, almost ...

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Balls

Label: Atavistic Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Balls; Garten; Filet Americain; De Daag Waarop Sipke Eindelijk Zijn Nagels Knipte, En Verder Alle Andere A Moten Voor Hem Openstonden I.C.P.; Untitled 1; Untitled 2.

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Peter Br: Balls

Read "Balls" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Beauty, as they say, is in the eye of the beholder. So too, is delicacy. One man's swirling maelstrom of free jazz is another's meditative moment. For Peter Brötzmann, the saxophonist often at the center of that whirlpool of sound, serenity can be found in and between the surges of energy. In the late ...


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