private checchen beach

Giaromarongiu - Checchen Beach LP Amigo! [CGM 703] (1979) Piano, Fender, Organ [Hammond], Drums, Congas, Timbales, Triangle, Whistle, Güiro, Musical Box, Voice, Composer, Sound Engineer, Mixer, Design [Label] - Riccardo Marongiu; Guitar [Electric, Acoustic], Bass, Fender, Agogo, Voice, Composer - Paolo Giaro; Saxophone [Tenor, Alto, Soprano] - Roberto Vinciguerra; Vibraphone - Fabrizio Urbinati; Voice - Dona Tonini; Design [Cover] - Italo Campagnoli. Buy it here.

Spanish Fly on the wheels of Jazz

I wanted to post this one for ages already but forgot it again and again. Now's the time for this hard to find german Latin Jazz goodie. If you dig tight Latin Fusion Jazz, some excellent scatting and even a bit of humor this one will make you smile for a while!

Cheers, Basso

Merge - Long Distance LP PRESALE

yippeeeee!!

our first record is being pressed these days and will arrive around
october 24th. there will be no more than 420 copies worldwide ...
you can preorder here:

RUSH HOUR 

GROWING BIN RECORDS

Cheers, Basso

Austria Drei Illinois Eins

Here we have something Austrian that doesn't quite sound "austrian". It's mainly Werner Pirchner's Marimba that gives this fusion outfit an ethnic/world music feel and some of those tricky rhythmic structures make you forget completely about alpine idyllic scenes. Adelhard Roidinger's bass workouts might make you forget about everything else (Check Lonely Frog).  I'll also mention "fast fingers" Harry Pepl on guitar and "tight" Todd Canedy, former member of the legendary Rhythm Combination & Brass, on drums. I'll also mention that I hope you'll enjoy this fine album!
Cheers, Basso

Im Stollwerk

Cologne rules! I am a big fan of Dunkelziffer / Unknown Cases and especially of Dominik von Senger. Guess what my face looked like when I turned the cover of this LP to have a look at the back.... If you're a fan too - download immediately. If not - give 'em a try anyway.

Download expired in 2011. After I posted this in 2009 this post got only 1 (ONE!) comment in 2 years. Maybe some of you have snapped by now that these guys rule ; ) New link follows

Cheers,

Basso

Yas-Kaz Does Jazz

 

Yas-Kaz - Virgo Indigo

Yas-Kaz is a Japanese percussionist. His works are often filed under ambient, experimental, new age and classical. This record released in 1986 is more in the jazz vein. There are tracks on this record that would fit the experimental tag, and a couple could be heard as leaning towards the cosmic side of sounds. Weather Reporter, Wayne Shorter is featured on soprano sax on the title track. Sounds of flute, violin, guitar, guitar synthesizer, keyboards, and off course, lots of percussion fill out the mix. 

Music

wtf five

that day I found it I put the B-Side on first, sat down and listened to the free jazz for a minute or two. Then turned it around and sat there for ten minutes, got up, lifted my arm went back and sat there for ten minutes, got up, lifted my arm went back and sat there for ten minutes, got up, lifted my arm went back and sat there for ten minutes, got up, lifted my arm went back and sat there for ten minutes, .....

Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays - San Lorenzo Live

Horns and stuff ....

Habirigum was a group of well educated musicians from Hamburg, Germany. According to the little info to be found in the web they were playing the famous Onkel Pö regularly between 1975 and 1985. 
On their one and only hard to find release called "1" they play excellent Jazz-Funk / Jazz-Rock with a strong focus on reeds and horns (see the cover ; )  
It was recorded in 1982 at Volksparkstudio in Hamburg and released in 1983 as a private pressing. Here's the musicians involved:

• Bass – Jörg Brohmann
• Drums, Engineer – Ben Ahrens
• Guitar, Percussion – Wolfgang Kröger
• Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone – Matthias Goldbach
• Trombone, Soprano Saxophone – Nadir Ibrahimoglu

Cheers, Basso

EDIT: a member of Habirigum has asked not to share their music so I deleted the download link

new jazz quintett

Naima New Jazz Quintett – Morning Part One  LP Jazz Haus Musik [JHM 05 ST]  (1980) Bass - Andreas Lonardoni; Drums - Kurt Bilker; Guitar, Composer - Ralf Schlüssel; Saxophone [Tenor, Soprano], Bass Flute, Composer - Wollie Kaiser; Vibraphone, Composer - Jochen Schmidt; Engineer - Ansgar Ballhorn; Cover - Ernst P. Schmutz; Photos - Jürgen Kling.  Buy it here.

le curve

tracklist:

Roberto Colombo - Metronomo 138
Osamu Shoji - Night Flight
In Search Of Orchestra - Time Traveler
Etron Fou Leloublan - L'Extravagante Montée Des Ascenseurs, Nous Resterons Fideles A Notre Calme Détermination
Solar Plexus - Frygisk Samba
Vagif Mustafa Zadeh - Самый жаркий день в Баку
Jan Jankeje Mlada Muzika - Sokol
Cătălin Tîrcolea - Zboruri
Krzysztof Zgraja - Laokoon
Montreux - Sign Language
Sigi Busch / Alexander Sputh - That's Me (And That's My Edit No Edit)
Alfredo Puntieri - Un'Istante Basterà
Robson Jorge & Lincoln Olivetti - Eva
Saratoga Space Messengers - Surf
Todd Rundgren - A Treatise On Cosmic Fire (A Monte A Valle Edit No Edit)
Holger Brasen - Sunpower Special (Excerpt)

Also here.

Latter Lasry

Back to Amazonia was one of Teddy Lasry's last full lps. It was released in 1987 on the Sonimage label. The tracks are the usual eclectic mix of jazz, ambient and cosmic sounds. Lasry had help from Jean-Michel Hervé and Jean-Philippe Rykiel with the synthesizers. Guy Cassuto plays trumpet on a few tracks. Multi-instrumentalist Lasry takes care of the rest (reeds, keys, percussion, and strings).

The Cosmic Equation

More Lasry for synth fanciers. This one is from 1976 on the RCA Victor production media label. Lots of spacy noodling and some fine percussion on a few tracks. Lasry is credited with all instruments except bass which is covered by Jannick Top. Lasry's instrumental credits include reeds (flute, sax, and clarinet), mallets (marimba and percussion), keys (synths, clavinet, electric piano and piano). Some nice long tracks are included with this release, so it's one of my favorite Lasrys.

how does Brown taste?

maybe Jan Huydts knows? Or Ali Haurand or Leo De Ruyter?? Maybe you'll know after listening to this fine piece of experimental jazz from 1970? Released on the tiny JG label (Jazz Groove... yep it got some groove as well) this record does not wait in every box at the fleamarket, so I thought sharing it would be a nice thing to do.
If you dug this post over here and you wanted it a little less sweet then check out Brown Taste. It's completely different.... Most definitely something for fans of Third Eye. (Hyutds and Haurand were founding members).
Enough of the namedropping - go beg for a link in the comments ....

cheers, Basso

what's the latest fashion?

The latest fashion ..... I kinda lost track of it a couple of years ago but eagerly trying to catch up ; )  I was trying not to think about that when making a mix/selection mostly consisting of jazzy and fusion faves for Chee's "visionary mixes" series.
check it out - THE WHOLE SERIES OF COURSE!

dutch train

Basic Train - Basic Train LP Basart Records International B.V. [LBP 3052] (1975) Flute, Saxophone [Soprano], Composer - Herman Schoonderwalt; Fender Piano, Arp Synthesizer, Composer - Jan Huydts; Drums, Percussions - Leo de Ruiter; Bass, Fender Bass, Composer - Koos Serierse; Sound Engineer - Jan Audier; Design [Cover] - Ton van Zwol; Photography - Mattin Bismeyer. Buy it here.

bruno's container

Bruno Spoerri - Container LP Image [U-768-004] (1976) Saxophone [Sopranino, Alto, Tenor, Baritone], Lyricon, EMS Converter & Synthesizer, Composer, Arranger - Bruno Spoerri; Electric Piano, ARP Synthesizer, Clavinet, Piano, ARP & Freeman Strings - Nick Bertschinger; Guitars, Composer - Thomas Moeckel; Bass Guitar - Hans Foletti; Drums, Percussion - Mike Murphy; Producer - August P. Villiger, Bruno Spoerri. Buy it here.

"let's have some solar breakfast"

Headband – Suntalk LP veraBra Records [No.1/A-5613] (1980) Bass, Yukapatu-Voice - Cläusel Quitschau; Drums - Man Breuer; Guitar, Congas, Yukapatu-Bass, Composer - Jan Reimer; Keyboards, Voice, Composer - Michael Herting; Saxophone [Tenor, Soprano] - Norbert Stein. Boss Basso has a copy of it here.

Thanks, Michael !

BIG THANKS!!!!! to Michael who was so kind to record this excellent russian Jazz LP. It's the Allegro Jazz Ensemble's first LP from 1980. Both sides seem to be suites again (just like on their "In This World" LP). Long and beautiful tracks...... Enjoy!

out of this world: In This World

Now here you have some Russian Jazz. I'm far from being an expert in Jazz from Russia but I guess there must be tons out there. Only have some Allegro, Arsenal, Bumerang and Kutsenko, ... and here is my fave among them: The Allegro Jazz Ensemble's "In This World" from 1981. Powerful sound with partly funky rhythms and some solid synths.... and then there's that bass in the last tune......... Both sides are suites, but I dared to divide them into parts.
Cheers!

challenger

Jacky Giordano - Challenger LP Freesound [FS 3/74] (1974) Arranger, Composer, Leader - Jacky Giordano.