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[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

JRR only 30 minutes ...as el Senor says redacted again ...

Geoffrey covers Ahmad Jamal .. now you might think this is cocktail loung stuff .... but don't tell Miles ...

JLU gets down to it at festival gigs

Funky Pee Wee Ellis and UK bassist Alec Dankworth appear on this week's Jazz Line-Up introduced by Claire Martin. The first Bristol Jazz and Blues Festival runs from the 1st to the 3rd March and so Jazz Line-Up get in on the action.
Also this week, Jazz Line-Up has just returned from Southport at their 9th Annual "Jazz on a Winter's Weekend" get-together with a set from tenor saxophonist Marius Neset with his Quartet of Ivo Neame, piano, Jasper Hoiby, bass and Anton Eger, drums. This is the gig people are waiting for; Jazz Line-Up was there to record and deliver this special experience.

...nice

Jon 3 has no playlist so blurb only

Pianist and composer Hans Koller is something of a big-band specialist, so the task of writing new music inspired by the greatest jazz composer of them all - Gil Evans - couldn't be in better hands. Koller has spent much of the last two decades working with leading large ensembles in both the UK and Germany, including his own big band. He's put together a special version of that outfit for this performance, fronted by the electric guitars of Jakob Bro and Phil Robson and also featuring leading American drummer Jeff Williams. The music takes inspiration from Evans's approach rather than his style, developing through intuition and "happy accident" as much as forensically crafted combinations of instruments and sounds. The concert also features a second major new work, using text by the German Romantic poet Hölderlin and featuring vocalist

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Hans Koller snr was a very fine tenor player who worked with Oscar Pettiford's quintet in 59...ckout the excellent"Vienna Blues", one of the first jazz records I ever bought on a school trip to Austria. Well, it was either that or "Meet the Everly Brothers".

I gather he was also a key figure in reinventing German jazz post WW2...so his son has some background.

BN.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

that is a very fine Oscar album innit?

ta not made that connection ...

[Alyn_Shipton]

Ahmad J did a long interview with me, shame there wasn't time to use it before Jazz Library was taken off...

[Byas'd Opinion]

BN, as far as I know the two Hans Kollers aren't related: I think it's just a Bill Evans / Bill Evans coincidence.

The younger piano playing one was, according to his website, "born into a musical family, his father was a jazz-loving Lutheran pastor, his mother a music teacher and his four sisters all played instruments". He's originally from Bavaria but now based in London.

The older sax playing one was Austrian, although he mainly worked in Germany. Rather like Albert Mangelsdorff, he mastered American-style post-bop playing in the 50s before moving onto more exploratory stuff from the late 60s onwards. I haven't heard the Pettiford album you mention, but Koller's 1974 "Kunstkopfindianer" (with Wolfgang Dauner and Zbigniew Seifert) is an excellent piece of post Bitches Brew free-jazz-rock fusion.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Oooooops, thanks for that!

I had always assumed they were father and son, like Kenny Drew snr and jnr.

Maybe the younger should call himself, "Look, no Hans"to avoid confusion! Yes, a terrible joke, I'm off to feed the sneering mallards.

BN.

BTW, on Vienna Blues, Hans K. plays in a kind of Zoot Sims style. Lovely session, great bass from OP. You can also see him on Utube with Griffin and Ronnie Scott etc playing behind a laid back but stunning Wes Montomery on "West Coast Blues".

[Quarky]

JRR only 30 minutes ...as el Senor says redacted again ...

Geoffrey covers Ahmad Jamal .. now you might think this is cocktail loung stuff .... but don't tell Miles ...

Cocktail lounge? One of Geoffrey's best in my book. Yeah Yeah Geoffrey!

[Serial_Apologist]

Cocktail lounge? One of Geoffrey's best in my book. Yeah Yeah Geoffrey!

Then I'll have a vodka martini please, Oddball - stirred, but not shaken.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

...over on the flute thread S_A is impressed with Jon3 .... meanwhile i have listened to Geoffrey and i have to say i agree with Oddball, one of Geoffreys very best ... an inspiration to play off Jamal and Miles Davis versions against each other ... highly recommended and in my book ...

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

taking the last chances to hear Hans Koller and liking it ....