"Heiner Stadler, a record producer and composer who worked with highly regarded improvisers to advance the interplay of jazz and contemporary compositional elements, died in Silver Spring, Maryland on February 18, 2018, less than two months before his 76th birthday. The cause was complications of pneumonia, said his wife Dida Stadler.
Stadler's best known works include A Tribute to Bird and Monk (1973), a set of reharmonized works by Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk which received a five-star review in DownBeat; Brains on Fire (sessions recorded 1964 – 1974); Retrospection (1996); and Jazz Alchemy (2000). Among the musicians performing on these recordings were George Adams, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Joe Chambers, Stanley Cowell, Thad Jones, George Lewis, Jimmy Owens, Reggie Workman, Lennie White, and Germany's NDR Big Band conducted by Dieter Glawishnig (featuring Wolfgang Dauner, Alberg Mangelsdorf and Manfred Schoof, among otheres"
Only posting this here because I had never heard of him until his death and this notice, and a few recommendations on another website. But the "Brains on Fire" dates are extraordinary for the players he assembled and the performances they gave. The sole track on You Tube is "Heidi", basically a long agonised (but not agonising) "freeish" feature for Tyrone Washington on Tenor. Washington being something of a mystery figure, most notoriously for being part of the Jackie McLean "car crash" session that Bluenote still refuses to release. Jackie blamed the drummer. Anyway, "Heidi" is worth visiting.
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Stadler's best known works include A Tribute to Bird and Monk (1973), a set of reharmonized works by Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk which received a five-star review in DownBeat; Brains on Fire (sessions recorded 1964 – 1974); Retrospection (1996); and Jazz Alchemy (2000). Among the musicians performing on these recordings were George Adams, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Joe Chambers, Stanley Cowell, Thad Jones, George Lewis, Jimmy Owens, Reggie Workman, Lennie White, and Germany's NDR Big Band conducted by Dieter Glawishnig (featuring Wolfgang Dauner, Alberg Mangelsdorf and Manfred Schoof, among otheres"
Only posting this here because I had never heard of him until his death and this notice, and a few recommendations on another website. But the "Brains on Fire" dates are extraordinary for the players he assembled and the performances they gave. The sole track on You Tube is "Heidi", basically a long agonised (but not agonising) "freeish" feature for Tyrone Washington on Tenor. Washington being something of a mystery figure, most notoriously for being part of the Jackie McLean "car crash" session that Bluenote still refuses to release. Jackie blamed the drummer. Anyway, "Heidi" is worth visiting.
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