Danish (of Congolese origin) saxophonist / composer John Tchicai was one of the very few European musicians involved with the development of Free Jazz in the US in the early 1960s, where he played with Don Cherry, Archie Shepp and John Coltrane. Upon his return to Denmark in the late 1960s, Tchicai became one of the leaders of European Free Jazz movement, as well as a visionary precursor of Jazz-World Fusion, dedicating much of his work to incorporating African Music into Jazz. This momentous recording documents one of the first major Jazz-World Fusion works, recorded by a Jazz orchestra with 26 players, mostly Danish musicians, with the Dutch saxophone colossus Willem Breuker as a guest. The title track is a 22 minutes long Jazz suite, performed by the orchestra and composed by trumpeter Hugh Steinmetz, with the soloist improvising individually and collectively on top. It is an amazing piece of music and a daring excursion into uncharted musical territory, which sounds as awesome and impressive today as it did at the tome of its recording, perhaps even more so in retrospect, considering how little experimenting is done these days. The rest of the album includes music composed by Tchicai and performed by smaller ensembles, emphasizing the concept of collective improvisation. The entire album was conceived and eventually brought to life by the legendary producer Joachim Berendt, who prophetically recognized the importance of Tchicai’s work and struggled ceaselessly to make this immensely complex project to come to fruition. The music remains a timeless manifest to the most creative period in Jazz, when the unexpected was truly expected. Superbly remastered and elegantly packaged by Promising Music, this is a treasure. Brilliant!
Slavek Kowalewski (original by BOUNCEBACK) - Aitakatta (AKB0048 ver. ~Orchestra~) -- but pitched up one half step so that it's in A major instead of Ab major
okay now that I say it it's gone back to Ab major...
okay now that I think about it's more like some quarter-tone between Ab and A that's the home note...I seem to perceive it as A
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Saeko Suzuki, et al. - Rinne no Lagrange (soundtrack)
I started thinking of this:
MY FIRST STORY - SAVIOR OF SONG - {Arpeggio of Blue Steel}
Background music at a cookout. I do like the song, though, it's one of the few by her that I don't find entirely gaudy these days.
okay now that I say it it's gone back to Ab major...
okay now that I think about it's more like some quarter-tone between Ab and A that's the home note...I seem to perceive it as A
This song is about six minutes long but the track runs more than 11, could there be a hidden song OF COURSE