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Live at the Philharmonie
By Dave Pike
Label: Promising Music/MPS
Released: 2008
Track listing: Hey Duke; Mambo Jack the Scoffer; Riff for Rent; Nobody's Afraid of Howard Monster; The Secret Mystery of Hensh.
Faces in Reflection
By George Duke
Label: Promising Music/MPS
Released: 2008
Track listing: The Opening; Capricorn; Piano Solo 1; Piano Solo 2; Psychocomatic Dung; Faces in Reflection No. 1; Maria Tres Filhos; North Beach; Da Somba; Faces in Reflection No. 2.
Helen 12 Trees
Label: Promising Music/MPS
Released: 2008
Track listing: Helen 12 Trees; Parvati's Dance; Sleep, My Love; Thorn of a White Rose; Neverglades Pixie; Charlotte; Avoid the Year of the Monkey.
Barney Wilen and His Amazing Free Rock Band: Dear Prof. Leary
by John Kelman
Any album combining '60s hits like “Ode to Billie Joe" and “Respect" with Ornette Coleman's “Lonely Woman" deserves more than a passing glance. The late French saxophonist Barney Wilen was already thirty-one when he recorded Dear Prof. Leary with His Amazing Free Rock Band in 1968 for the German MPS label. Best-known by then (and, likely, ...
John Tchicai and Cadentia Nova Danica: Afrodisiaca
by John Kelman
A minor classic so unknown that, until this 2008 reissue, it wasn't even listed at All Music Guide, Danish-born of Congolese-descent saxophonist John Tchicai's 1969 MPS release Afrodisiaca is a sprawling, multi-disciplinary work that rivals better known works like John Coltrane's Ascension (Impulse!, 1965). No less a personal journey, Afrodisiaca stands, nearly forty years later, as ...
Jasper van't Hof's Pork Pie: Transitory
by John Kelman
The second batch in Promising Music's series of remastered reissues from the MPS catalog kicks off with Transitory, an album that might have received greater recognition for its leader and his group had there been better distribution on the other side of the Atlantic. Keyboardist Jasper van't Hof has remained a relatively small piece of the ...
Association P.C. + Jeremy Steig: Mama Kuku
by John Kelman
With their clever combination of Latin, free jazz, rock and other musical markers, it's a wonder that Dutch percussionist Pierre Courbois and Association P.C. never received more credit. Promising Music's thoughtfully remastered CD issue of Mama Kuku, originally released in 1974 on MPS, provides an opportunity to hear this largely spontaneous group in fine form, culled ...
Wolfgang Dauner: Free Action
by John Kelman
Wolfgang Dauner is yet another case of an artist who's achieved a considerable reputation in Europe, but for whom greater exposure in North America has remained elusive. The multidisciplinary keyboardist has done everything from free jazz to opera, and can be heard in fine jazz/rock form on Don “Sugar Cane" Harris' recently released 1972 MPS disc, ...
Don "Sugar Cane" Harris: Sugar Cane's Got the Blues
by John Kelman
One of the greatest definers of late-1960s and early-1970s jazz was the collaboration of musicians from disparate backgrounds, a perfect example being Charlie Mariano's 1976 MPS release, Helen Twelve Trees (Promising Music/MPS, 2008), featuring ex-Mahavishnu keyboardist Jan Hammer alongside ex-Cream bassist Jack Bruce. Equally, 1972's Sugar Cane's Got the Blues--another MPS title seeing issue on CD ...
The Dave Pike Set: Live at the Philharmonie
by John Kelman
While vibraphonist Gary Burton has garnered greater acclaim, it's hard to listen to The Dave Pike Set's Live at the Philharmonie--originally released on MPS in 1970 and finally making it to CD--and not draw some comparisons. At the time of this 1969 Berlin recording, both vibraphonists were working with similar line-ups, including ...
