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Article: Interview

Eberhard Weber: Positive Pragmatism

Read "Eberhard Weber: Positive Pragmatism" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

There are plenty of positives about getting older: wisdom, maturity and a more balanced outlook are just three of them. But it would be unrealistic to suggest that there aren't a few negatives thrown in there. When bassist Eberhard Weber woke up in his hotel room on the morning of April 23, 2007, in Berlin, Germany, ...

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Brains on Fire

By Heiner Stadler

Label: Labor Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: No Exercise; Three Problems; Heidi; Bea's Flat; Love In The Middle Of The Air; U.C.S.; All Tones; The Fugue No. 2.

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Article: Extended Analysis

Heiner Stadler: Brains on Fire

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by Hrayr Attarian

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 ...

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Article: Live Review

Enjoy Jazz, 13th Edition: Heidelberg/Mannheim/Ludwigshafen, Germany, October 27-November 1, 2011

Read "Enjoy Jazz, 13th Edition: Heidelberg/Mannheim/Ludwigshafen, Germany, October 27-November 1, 2011" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

Enjoy Jazz FestivalMannheim/Heidelberg/Ludwigshafen, GermanyOctober 27--November 1, 2011 It's always great to return somewhere that has become an annual port of call, but it's particularly nice to return to Germany's Enjoy Jazz, that atypical jazz festival which--rather than running for a week and concentrating a whack of shows in that short time frame--runs ...

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Jazz Meets India

By Manfred Schoof

Label: Bibarec
Released: 2010
Track listing: 01. Sun Love; 02. Yaad; 03. Brigach and Ganges.

Article: Album Review

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

Read "Jazz Meets India" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

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. ...

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Article: Album Review

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

Read "Jazz Meets India" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

Years before John McLaughlin began a deep investigation into the music of India that resonates to this day, there was Jazz Meets India. It wasn't the first time that Indian music had crept into popular western culture--The Beatles and John Coltrane, amongst others, had already seen to that--but this 1967 MPS date was an early experimental ...

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Article: Album Review

Gunter Baby Sommer / Manfred Schoof / Gianluigi Trovesi / Barre Phillips: Peitzer Grand Mit Vieren

Read "Peitzer Grand Mit Vieren" reviewed by A. Henkin

by A. Henkin

This 1981 live set, taken from the Jazzwerkstatt Peitz at one time the biggest jazz festival in Germany outside of Berlin, organized by Ulli Blobel and Peter Metag, is a discographist's dream. It presents the earliest official recording of bassist Barre Phillips playing with trumpeter Manfred Schoof (predating Gunter Hampel's Jubilation (Birth, 1983) by over two ...

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Resonance

By Manfred Schoof

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: CD1: Scales; Ostinato; For Marianne; Weep and Cry; Flowers All Over; Resonance; Old Ballad. CD2: Source; Light Lines; Criterium; Lonesome Defender; Horizons; Hope; Sunset.

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Article: Album Review

Manfred Schoof: Resonance

Read "Resonance" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

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, ...


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