GANZ PRIVAT

HANS KOLLER OCTET / WOLFGANG DAUNER TRIO

JAZZ-STUDIO H.G.B.S. NUMBER ONE

SABA RECORDS, SB 15003(LP)   Germany, 1965 (release year)

This one is pretty rare although it was re-released in Japan in 1999.  It’s been on Paul D.’s wish-list for a long while.  It’s onxidlib who located a copy by one of his acquaintances and managed to get this excellent rip.

The tracks were not assigned to a specific performer on the sleeve of the original LP but I guess there was little risk of confusing Dauner’s piano trio with Koller’s sax heavy octet.

So what do we have here:

First of all a superb octet led by Hans Koller and featuring no less than five saxes:

HANS KOLLER OCTET

Hans Koller    :           tenor saxophone

Rudi Flierl      :           tenor saxophone

Karl Drewo     :           tenor saxophone

Derek Humble:           alto saxophone

Helmut Reinhardt :    baritone saxophone

Hans Hammerschmid :           piano

Götz Wendland :        bass

Sperie Karas : drums

"Hans Koller Octet" recorded in Baden Baden, German, January 9, 1962

Then we have the Wolfgang Dauner Trio.

WOLFGANG DAUNER TRIO -

Wolfgang Dauner :     piano

Götz Wendland :        bass

Kurt Bong :                bongo

"Wolfgang Dauner Trio" recorded in Villingen, German, January 12, 1962

The album was produced, engineered and directored by Hans-Georg Brunner-Schwer (hence Jazz Studio HGBS).

TRACKS (total time 33:23) 

1.         Ganz Privat (3:18) [H.-G.Brunner-Schwer]

Hans Koller Octet

2.         It Ain't Necessarily So (5:42) [G.Gershwin]

Wolfgang Dauner Trio

3.         Oleo (4:28) [S.Rollins]

Wolfgang Dauner Trio

4.         Racy (4:03) [H.Koller]

Hans Koller Octet

5.         At The Darktown Of Strutter's Ball (6:01) [S.Brooks]

Wolfgang Dauner Trio

6.         Five At A Time (3:02) [S.Karas]

Hans Koller Octet

7.         Fips (3:18) [H.Reinhardt]

Hans Koller Octet

8.         Cubano Chant (3:29) [R.Bryant]

Wolfgang Dauner Trio

Trivia: this LP was apparently the first Jazz LP on the Saba label.

RE-ISSUED: POLYDOR K.K., POCJ-2689(CD)

RELEASED: MARCH 3, 1999, JAPAN

SWING A LOT

Sadi and his New Big Show Band
Swing a Little - LP Palette - Belgium 1971

Posts of Sadi's music are among the most popular on this blog. Yes, Fats, we miss you, old man!  We miss not seeing you on the telly anymore, you wouldn't believe the crap they have on these days.

On this LP - as the title implies - the emphasis is on Sadi, the vocalist, entertainer and showman.  But don't forget Sadi the arranger, Sadi the band leader, Sadi the vibist, Sadi the bongoman!  They're all here.

Great Belgian jazz featuring "Little Green Apples" and his monster bongo break intro. With also the jazz dancer "Hep! Hep! The Jumping Jive"

You probably know him best for the Ensadinado LP on MPS, but heavyweight Belgian jazzman & entertainer Fats Sadi also cut some other great albums. 'Swing a little' for example is a jazz record he cut with the cream of Belgian jazz musicians in those days: ao. Jeannot Morales, Nic Fisette, Etienne Verschueren, Roger Van Haverbeke and Freddy Rottier, some of which went to play with Placebo later on.  The music is big band jazz with scat, vibes and some drumbreaks. Some of the arrangements may call to mind the name of Francis Boland, there is a certain kinship, I assume it's the Belgian Touch!

Swing a little

Sadi and his New Big Show Band :
Fats Sadi (vib,bgo,vcl,arr,ldr) with
Edmond Harnie, Janot Morales, Nicolas Fissette, Herman Sandy (tp)
Frans Van Dijck, François Bastaens, Jan Mertens (tb)
Etienne Verschueren, Marcel Denies (as) François Morin,
Constant Letellier (ts) José Paessens (bar) Willy Albimoor (p)
Roger Vanhaverbeke (b) Freddy Rottier (d)

Brussels, December 6, 8, 14 & 16, 1971

AIN'T SHE SWEET

I CAN'T GIVE YOU ANYTHING BUT LOVE

LITTLE GREEN APPLES

YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE

SHE'LL BE MINE

JUST WALKING ALONG

I CRIED FOR YOU

EVERY TIME WE SAY GOODBYE

SWING A LITTLE

I WON'T DANCE

YOU'RE DRIVING ME CRAZY

HEP HEP THE JUMPING JIVE

Little Green Apples was written by Bobby Russell and was first recorded and released by Roger Miller in 1968.

Label:  LP Palette 2341020, reissued as ‎– The Talent Of... Sadi 2

Jazz Club Records  ‎– 111.024-Y, Jazz Club Records  ‎– SFOT 21.486

All the credits for ripping and cleaning the album go to Paul D.  who has even more merit since he does not like this album AT ALL!!

Music for the mind and the body

Georg Riedel - Bengt Malbert

Gymnastikmusik, “Puls”

LP Megafon MFLP S15, Sweden, 1970

Another curio by Riedel, this time thanks the Quimsy.  An album that will put you back in shape!  Music blogging is good not just for your ears but for your whole body.  Instead of leaving it in the comments of the previous post, I think it deserves a post on its own.

Excellent music as could be expected from such a cast of top-notch musicians.

Credits: 

Bass – George Riedel, Hans Lindholm, Stefan Brolund

Clarinet, Alto Saxophone – Arne Domnérus

Drums – Björn Ågeryd, Egil Johansen

Flute, Tenor Saxophone – Claes Rosendahl

Guitar – Rune Gustafsson, Rune Larsson

Piano – Bengt Hallberg, Knud Jörgensen

Bass Trombone – Olle Lind

Tracks

Side A 

A1        Svit 1

A2        Svit 2

Side B

B1       Svit 3  

Recorded 22.5 & 1.6. 1970.

Check the link in the comments of the previous post. With loads of thanks to Quimsy!

RARITY # 44

GEORGE RIEDEL QUINTET

METRONOME MEP 107 (EP) – Sweden, 1955

Until recently I don’t think there was much music by Swedish composer / cellist George Riedel floating around the blogsphere.  And suddenly it comes from all directions!

First El Reza sent us the rare RIEDAIGLIA LP – which, by the way, has become  the most visited and downloaded post on this blog!  Merci Reza!

Then about a week ago, a guy named Matthias F provided a copy of Jazz Ballet which was posted on Bacoso's OIR.

And now our good friend onxidlib send us this rare EP dating from 1955, with all the usual suspects you can expect from a Swedish recording of the mid-fifities (Domenrus, Wallin …).

Isn’t music blogging a marvelous media for preserving obscure and forgotten music?

Why then are we considered as vulgar delinquents by Web regulators?   We ain't stealing nothing from no one.

Credits

George Riedel, cello

Arne Domnérus, clarinet

Bengt-Arne Wallin, trumpet

Yngve Akerberg, bass

Egil Johanssen, drums

Tracks

Side A:

1. Cellophan (Riedel)                    3:35

2. Episodes (Wallin)                      2:55

 Side B:

3. Jumper (Riedel)                         3:31

4. Shorty, I'm Sorry (Riedel)          2:41

Recorded in Stockholm, Sweden on February 2, 1955.

RIP 3 LEGENDS OF BELGIAN JAZZ

ALBERT LANGUE - CHARLIE CALMEYN - JOOP AYAL

Several legends of Belgian Jazz have left us recently for the great Jam Session.

Albert Langue & his Dixie Stompers (source: RTBF website)

Trumpet player Albert Langue died aged 92 in Mons, he is well remembered for recording with Sydney Bechet the famous (at least in Belgium) folk theme Le Doudou (a carnival song which was the anthem of his native town of Mons, in the coal mining region known as Le Borinage).

Charlie Calmeyn career as a jazzman goes back to the late thirties. He lead for many years the Brussels Big Band - a swing big band in the Basie tradition, featuring some of the better local talents (Edmond Harnie, Al Goyens, Jean Blaton ...).  It was proclaimed European Best Big Band in its style in Paris in 1976.  The Brussels Big Band can be heard on a Vogue LP recorded in 1980.

(sorry, I could not find any picture.  Still looking though.  But you can hear him on one 78 rpm track - Rythm Stomp - see comments )

Joop Ayal was born in Dutch Indonesia.  He arrived in Holland as a stoveaway in 1948 and started working with various  local artists such as Rita Reys.  In 1951, he moved to Brussels, Belgium, where he started playing the baritone sax with Francis BAY in the famous Brussels club Au Gaity. 

Joop Ayal (Source Joop's MySpace)

Until 1965 he stayed clubbing in the city, than started a long collaboration with Flemish television. He played with his quintet at Jazz Middelheim in 1976. 

Joop Ayal received a master's degree in Counterpoint from the Académie Royale de Bruxelles and in Arranging and Orchestration from the Berklee College of Music in Boston.

 He played a.o. with the WASO (Django style band) and the RETRO JAZZ ORCHESTRA. 

Joop AYAL appears on several albums.  In the 90s he was often playing with the little big band of singer/guitarist Vicky Down.

Joop was a great saxman very much influenced by Ben Webster.  Check in on MySpace: and listen to his rendition of I remember Ben (recorded with Waso Quartet).

FUNKY GDR !

Rundfunktanzorchester Berlin ‎– Big Band Aktuell

LP AMIGA ‎– 8 55 568, GDR - 1977

If you like that unique funky European touch that blessed so many European big bands in the early to mid-Seventies, you’ll love this album.  As far as I know, it is the most adventurous album by this GDR big band.  Very original sound, especially on side 2 with tracks like Tiefetal 10 (with some solid alto courtesy of Ernst Ludwig Petrowsky) and “Etude”(with superb electric violin by Hubert Katzenbeier who musta bin listening to lotsa Sugarcane).

This last track is a pure delight for progheads! 

All tracks on side A were composed and arranged by Jerzy Milian.

Tracklist

A1       Ich Suche Nach Dir    5:15

Trombone – Hubert Katzenbeier

A2       Es Läuft          2:40

Alto Saxophone – Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky

A3       Drums-Jubiläum        3:15

Drums – Wolfgang Winkler

A4       Gründung Der Quarten         2:47

Tenor Saxophone – Werner Schmidt

A5       Wasserpfeifen-Blues  4:55

Flugelhorn, Trombone – Joachim Graswurm

Flute – Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky

Trombone – Hubert Katzenbeier

B1       Tiefetal 10      5:40

Alto Saxophone, Composed By – Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky

Bass – Klaus Koch      Guitar – Klaus Hille

B2       Ballade           3:34

Trombone, Composed By – Hubert Katzenbeier

B3       Erinnerung An Einen Wintertag      5:05

Alto Saxophone – Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky

Composed By – Václav Zahradník

Trumpet – Joachim Graswurm

B4       Etüde  6:26

Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Joachim Graswurm

Violin [Electric], Composed By – Hubert Katzenbeier

Credits

Conductor [Leitung] – Günter Gollasch

Recording dates:s

Aufnahmen: Rundfunk der DDR

A1 rec. 26.11.1971

A2 rec. 18.07.1972

A3, B4 rec. 16.06.1976

A4 rec. 21.11.1974

A5 rec. 24.02.1972

B1 rec. 15.06.1976

B2 rec. 06.06.1975

B3 rec. 06.10.1972

There are some great pictures of the Rundfunktanzorchester here. 

ENCORE UN BOOTLEG

CARMELL JONES-LEO WRIGHT-STAFFAN ABELEEN
BJORN ALKE, LEROY LOWE
RADIO BROADCAST - STOCKHOLM 1972

Carmell Jones

onxidlib just sent me this broadcast from the Swedish Radio. 


Carmell  Jones, trumpet  
Leo  Wright, alto saxophone 
Staffan Abeleen, piano 
Björn Alke, bass 
Leroy Lowe, drums

Leo Wtight

Staffan Abeleen

1. Straight No Chaser
2. Willow Weep for Me - I Can't Get Started
3. The Man I Love
4. Milestones
5. Groovin' High

Recorded in Stockholm in 1972 (venue and exact date unknown).