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London Jazz Composers Orchestra: Kraków 2020 [6CD]

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Pięć dekad działalności, siedemnastu improwizatorów i trzy wyjątkowe wieczory w Krakowie na jubileusz pięćdziesięciolecia kolektywu London Jazz Composers Orchestra!
Na początku marca 2020 roku LJCO wystąpiła w Krakowie, dając porywajęce koncerty, dobrze znany krakowskiej publiczności skład, dowodzony przez wirtuoza basu Barry’ego Guy’a, wystąpił trzy razy, w różnych konfiguracjach, w sprawdzonej na KJJ formule. W ciągu 50 lat przez LJCO przewinęło się prawie 50 muzyków z różnych krajów, środowisk i szkół. Przez te pół wieku zespół grupę spajały dwie rzeczy: wspólna dla wszystkich muzyków potrzeba odkrywania nowych, niezbadanych obszarów, oraz porywający talent Barry’ego Guya.

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Avant Jazz / Free Improvisation / Avant-Garde
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2022-12-06
kontynent: Europa
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Pięć dekad działalności, siedemnastu improwizatorów i trzy wyjątkowe wieczory w Krakowie na jubileusz pięćdziesięciolecia kolektywu London Jazz Composers Orchestra!
Na początku marca 2020 roku London Jazz Composers Orchestra wystąpiła w Krakowie, dając porywajęce koncerty, dobrze znany krakowskiej publiczności skład, dowodzony przez wirtuoza basu Barry’ego Guy’a, wystąpił trzy razy, w różnych konfiguracjach, w sprawdzonej na KJJ formule: na początek zagrały mniejsze składy (6 marca w Alchemii, 7 marca w Muzeum Manghha), na finał koncert całego kolektywu (8 marca, Muzeum Manggha). London Jazz Composers Orchestra zaprezentowała m.in… „Harmos”, jeden z ulubionych utworów publiczności i samych muzyków, w zupełnie nowej odsłonie.
W ciągu 50 lat przez London Jazz Composers Orchestra przewinęło się prawie 50 muzyków z różnych krajów, środowisk i szkół. Przez te pół wieku zespół grupę spajały dwie rzeczy: wspólna dla wszystkich muzyków potrzeba odkrywania nowych, niezbadanych obszarów, oraz porywający talent Barry’ego Guya. Ten wystąpił dotąd na Krakowskiej Jesieni Jazzowej m.in… Z projektami New Orchestra, Blue Shroud Band i w duecie z Kenem Vandermarkiem.

Polish Jazz Recordings and Beyond *****:
If "Kraków 2018" is an unquestionable Masterpiece of post-avantgarde, then "Kraków 2020" is the Lord og the Masterpieces, the one that rules them all. The celebrations of the 50 years of LJCO took place in March 2020, in the one before rst week of pandemic in Poland and Spain. In many European countries lock down was already introduced in this week. Me , however, I was still a "free citizen" and was able to come to Cracow to participate I this amazing event. It was clearly the bets free music festival I have ever participated in. I this that one thing is immediately clear why was it so extraordinary: the participation, superposition, synergy and mixture of the very experienced and mature members of LJCO (Barry Guy, Konrad Bauer, Alan Tomlinson, or Henry Lowther) with middle age champions, like Agustí Fernández, Simon Picard, Bruno Chevillon, or Lucas Niggli, and with the young power (all the rest). Absolutely unique combination! As typical for Marek Winiarski productions te rst four CDs contain the music by small ensembles, two recorded in Alchemia on the 6th of March, and two recorded at the Manggha Hall on the 7th of March. The remaining two CDs contain orchestral works: CD#5 two free improvised/free contucted/free composed track "Flow I" and "Flow II", while CD#6 contains the magisterial reading of the most popular composition of Barry, "Harmos".
CD#1 starts with a wonderful double saxophone quartet with Simon Picard on tenor and Michael Niesemann on alto, supported by the dream section of Barry Guy, Lucas Niggli, and according to John Sharpe's liner notes Bruno Chevillon on the second double bass. So, double saxophone, double double bass, and drums quintet! It is a very intense, energetic track, with some elements of the "late" free jazz, but mostly free improvised. The conversations of the two reeds playes are stunning, but the density and artistry of what the section is doing is incomparable to anything known in this world! This 19 minute long masterpiece of the free music is followed by a shorter, 8 minutes long atmospheric trumpet/bariton duo pf Henry Lowther and Julius Gabriel. Amazingly swinging improvisation!
The set ends with 23 minutes brass quartet (two trombones, trumpet and tuba) with Andreas Tschopp, Konrad Bauer, Rich Laughlin and Marc Unternährer. I dig in particular the tuba lines, but everybody is excellent here.

CD#2 begins with the super trio of Snekkestad/Guy/Fernández thtaw eknow already for the phenomenal album "The Swiftest Traveler". Here they present a 23 and a half minute long improvisation demonstrating their unbelievable emotional synergy. The music operates a lot with quiet fragments and pauses; all three masters employ all possible techniques and performance methods. This is a trio pf some of the most creative "sound inventors" of our times! It is followed by a magnicent duo of the two veterans of the scene: Phil Wachsmann and Alan Tomlinson, both in stunning form. The combination of the sound of the violin with that of the trombone gives diabolic e ects. This set and the rst day, indeed, end with trumper/alto quartet with Eberle, Wickihalder, Niggli and Chevillon. Associations with Ornette Coleman/Don Cherry quartets is absolutely in the right place, except that we deal with a XXIst century version! Still, so far it is the most "traditional", more free jazz-like track.

CD#3 opens the rst concert in the Manggha Hall. It starts with a 20 minutes long quintet with Henry Lowther on trumpet, Julius Gabriel on baritone, Agustí on piano, and the section of Bruno and Lucas. It is also a track with some "traditional" elements of a free jazz hymn/ballad, notabe for fantastic conversations of Henry and Julius, and breathtaking piano lines. Bruno and Julius stay on the stage and are then joined for 14 minutes by Marc Unternäher on tuba. They present a very abstract, yet lyrical and peaceful improvisation. The tuba lines are again breath taking. The set ends with an unusual trio including alto saxophone of Michael Niesemann, piano of Agustí and ... violin of Philipp Wachsmann. It begins as an energetic piano-alto duo, and Phil enters after 10 minutes or so, while Agustí leaves the stage. The track attains them more peaceful, chamber music spirit. My favorite of the small ensembles discs is CD#4, perhaps because the ensembles here are not small: one quintet and one sextet. The quintet consists of reeds and brass: Torben on saxophones, Rich and Eberle on Trumpets, and Konrad and Alan on trombones. The music belongs to the genre of free improvised minimalism: it is very peaceful, quiet and repetitive...and very beautiful. The track consists of 28 minutes of long, tranquil sound and tones, often played bu the instruments solo, duos, trios. Perhaps only the hymn-like end part involves all fi ve members of the quintet. The sextet represents more energetic side of free improvised music mixed with free jazz. It gathers again the super section of double double basses of Bruno and Barry, and drums/percussion of Lucas. They support in an exquisite way tenor saxophone of Simon Picard, alto of Jürg Wickihalder, and trombone of Andreas Tschopp. Free jazz at its best: 25 minutes in paradise of improvised music.
The third and the last day of the celebration includes exclusively orchestral pieces. CD#5 includes free improvised "Flow I" and "Flow II". Both pieces in a sense incorporate small ensembles into the orchestral framework. They do not contain composed parts, but, obviously, many conducted free improvised pard and, clearly, purely free improvised ones. "Flow I" starts with Phil Wachsmann's "cadenza", after peaceful 10 minutes, saxophones and drums take over and music gets more spin. This augmenting process becomes more intense around the 17th minute, when most of the reeds become involved. They are joined by Agustí in a Cecil Taylor-like style, and nally by everybody.
"Flow II" is di erent, since it includes many composed fragments, beginning with the opening theme, led by Jürg Wickihalder. It transforms then into a free jazz improvisation, yet with a structure that can be clearly decoded. After return of the Jürg's theme, comes Agustí's solo. The mood then changes into a kind of melancholic, especially when Agustí is joined by one of the trumpet. The next is a trumpet-trombone duo, joined later by the tuba. The mood augments, more instruments join, until the end.
The highlight of the whole celebration is, however, "Harmos" presented as the last piece on 7th of March. "Harmos" is probably one of the most known compositions of Barry and a clear signature of LJCO most probably due to the "catchy" themes and several versions available. It was fi rst released by Intakt in 1989, and then on DVD "Harmos Live At Sha hausen" in 2012. The present reading is withouth doubt superior, for me for the reason I mentioned at the beginning of this review: the superposition of experience with maturity of the veterans and wildness of the young and not-so-young lions. "Harmos" starts with an abstract free jazz conversation of reed and brass, intertwined with the ri s of the orchestra, until there come the rst famous theme. It is followed by the slow fragment with wonderful electric violin lines, by the tenor solo.
Then comes the second "fast and rhythmic" theme, and the solo of tenor continues. The theme returns, and other come to the front of the stage: a trombone duo of Tomlinson and Bauer, then Wickihalder, Guy, and so on. The slow ballad theme arises, and is followed by the short piano solo, and then Simon Picard's solo, on other most beautiful one can imagine, as in the "classical" versions. The nal parts return to the free jazz and free improvisation paradigm, until the original, rst theme returns. Post-avantgarde at its best!!!
by Maciej Lewenstein

muzycy:
Barry Guy - bass, director, composer
Agustí Fernández - piano
Michael Niesemann - alto sax
Torben Snekkestad - tenor & soprano saxes
Jürg Wickihalder - alto sax
Simon Picard - tenor sax
Julius Gabriel - baritone sax
Konrad Bauer - trombone
Andreas Tschopp - trombone
Alan Tomlinson - trombone
Henry Lowther - trumpet
Martin Eberle - trumpet
Rich Laughlin - trumpet
Marc Unternährer - tuba
Phil Wachsmann - violin
Bruno Chevillon - bass
Lucas Niggli - drums, percussion

utwory:
CD1 - March 6th 2020, Alchemia Club
1. Guy/Picard/Niggli/Niesemann18:46
2. Lowther/Gabriel 08:02
3. Tschopp/Bauer/Laughlin/Unternährer22:59

CD2 - March 6th 2020, Alchemia Club
1. Snekkestad/Fernández/Guy 23:25
2. Wachsmann/Tomlinson 12:18
3. Eberle/Wickihalder/Niggli/Chevillon 18:15

CD3 - March 7th 2020, Manggha Hall
1. Lowther/Gabriel/Fernández/Chevillon/Niggli 19:49
2. Chevillon/Gabriel/Unternährer 13:49
3. Niesemann/Fernández/Wachsmann 19:30

CD4 - March 7th 2020, Manggha Hall
1. Snekkestad/Laughlin/Eberle/Bauer/Tomlinson 28:03
2. Picard/Wickihalder/Tschopp/Chevillon/Guy/Niggli 25:07

CD5 - March 8th 2020, Manggha Hall
1. FLOW II 17:18
2. FLOW I 24:12

CD6 - March 8th 2020, Manggha Hall
1. HARMOS–KRAKÓW (by Barry Guy – PRS) 41:31

wydano: 2022
nagrano: Recorded in Kraków: March 6th, 2020 – Alchemia Club, March 7th & MArch 8th 2020 – Manggha Hall

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London Jazz Composers Orchestra
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Kraków 2020 [6CD]
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6CD
Data premiery
2022-11-30
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