Manafonistas

Miles Davis didn’t invent jazz-rock (vibraphonist Gary Burton got there a couple of years before him) but he legitimised it with his landmark albums In A Silent Way and Bitches Brew, both recorded in 1969. Tired of bebop structures and influenced by both the musical taste and fashion sense of his new young wife, Betty, Davis completely reinvented himself.

The first two cds of this treasure trove present key tracks by the trumpeter and several of his young cohorts (including Herbie Hancock, Joe Zawinul, Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea) during a fertile four-year period when they were all crashing through musical boundaries with a synthesis of jazz, rock, and funk that the critics dubbed ‘fusion’.

Interesting to see how the young Keith Jarrett started creating whole worlds from scratch. A fresh  piano voice in Art Blakey‘s group, a genius of sorts in Charles Lloyd‘s crossover quartet, everything started to full blossom in early trio- and solo workouts. Hidden gems of this four-cd-box (accompanied by a 32 pages booklet) are unknown takes from early sessions with Gary Burton, and, the thrill of it all, the complete solo performance from Kronach, situated in the German hinterland, a week before the legendary Köln Concert. Not quite the classic ECM sound, but not far away from it either. Awesome! (Release date: March 2021)

Michael Waring

Heute, um 00:00 Uhr wird ein Stück Rundfunkgeschichte beendet werden. Startete 1923 mit der Inbetriebnahme des ersten Mittelwellensenders auf 750-kHz in Berlin die Geschichte unseres geliebten Radios, wird zumindest auf Mittelwelle mit deutschen Sendern jetzt Schluss sein. Der DLF wird heute Nacht alle seine Mittelwellensender abschalten.
 
 
 

Wir erinnern uns: Die Mittelwelle war neben der Kurzwelle in den 60er Jahren unsere musikalische Rettung. Mit zwei Aufnahmen von meinem Grundig Kofferradio „Ocean Boy“ verabschiede ich mich in knapp sechs Stunden von dieser Zeit.

Allen ein gutes neues Jahr 2016 wünscht Gregor.
 
 
 

 
„Time travel, the avant-garde, sex and ancient Rome
I was walking down a road towards a lighthouse in Japan
When I passed a man wearing the mask of a black horse
And followed him astonished to an old abandoned fort
A group of alien immigrants had pitched their camp up there
Playing wild guitars and making images with fire
Hiding their identities with fur and wood and glue
Each wore a mask of Bebko and now I wear one too …“
 

Hier ist die  Rezeption einer psychotherapeutischen und psychosomatischen Praxis zu sehen, der vermehrt Impfgegner jeglicher Couleur zugewiesen werden (also  Reichsbürger, sog. Querdenker etc.) – natürlich ist das Personal geschult, somit kommen auch Tierpfleger zum Einsatz.