RARITY #27

DAVID AMRAM - ALBERT MANGELSDORFF GROUP
(Acetate, 1954)

David Amram

This rip of a rare acetate was sent to me by onxidlib a while ago.  The session took place in 1954 during Amram 's military service  as a GI stationed in Germany.

Actually there is a book awaiting to be written on  US Jazz musicians doing their military services in Germany in the 50s/60s and their collaboration with the burgeonning local modern jazz scene. (Perhaps it already exists but then I'm unaware of it).

A word of warning on the audio quality of this post. It's an acetate so it's pretty bad.  Paul D. had a few attempts at cleaning it but after listening to the results we decided to post the original rip with surface noise & all as - IMHO - the cleaning was altering the quality of the music.

Musicians:

David Amram, french horn
Albert Mangelsdorff, trombone
Attila Zoller, guitar (3,5), piano (4)
Harry Schell, bass
Karl Sanner, drums


Note: some sources say Jutta Hipp plays on "Dave's Blues".
see also The Attila Zoller Discography here.


Tracks

1. The Way You Look Tonight  (Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields) 3:38
2. Perdido  (Juan Tizol, Ervin Drake, Hans Lengsfelder) (interpolating Ravel's BOLERO)  3:16
3. Sonny Boy  (Lew Brown, Buddy DeSylva, Ray Henderson, Al Jolson)  2:33
4. Dave's Blues (David Amram?) [late start due to damaged lacquer] 1:31
5. If I Had You  (Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly, Ted Shapiro)  2:42
6. Blue Skies  (Irving Berlin) 2:40

Recorded at the AFN Studios, Frankfurt in autumn, 1954.
Ripped from an acetate (label > Presto)

Recommeded readings: Interview of David Amram at 80 in JazzWax

If you are interested in Amram's  Classical works, check this website: "Symphonic Variations on a Song by Woody Guthrie can be downloaded for free from Symphony Silicon Valley's website featuring a great live performance conducted by Paul Polivinick.

Check also YouTube for live performance of other works (In Memory of Chano Pozo, Ode to Lord Buckley)

I was planning to post next  the Mangelsdorff Septet recorded  live by the Bayerischer Rundfunk @ Stadttheater, Lindau (Germany) on November 20, 1961 but someone did it before me. 
It is a great concert with a superb line up:  

• Albert Mangelsdorff (trombone)Joki Freund (saxophone)
• Heinz Sauer (saxophone)
• Günter Kronberg (saxophone)
• Emil Mangelsdorff (saxophone)
• Günter Lenz (bass)
• Rune Carlsson (drums) 

If you like European / German Jazz, don't miss it.  Check Many Fantastic Colors.