Jan Hammer Group: Live In New York 1975

Fusion Jazz / Jazz Rock
premiera polska: 2025-03-28
kontynent: Europa
opakowanie: Digipackowe etui
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Czesko-amerykański pianista jazzowy, klawiszowiec i kompozytor Jan Hammer zdobył światową sławę głównie dzięki muzyce do filmów i seriali telewizyjnych.
W 1984 roku zlecono mu napisanie tematu tytułowego i podkładu muzycznego do nowego amerykańskiego serialu kryminalnego "Miami Vice". W listopadzie 1985 roku ścieżka dźwiękowa z Miami Vice szturmem zdobyła szczyt amerykańskiej listy przebojów Billboard. Z ponad czterema milionami sprzedanych płyt (płyta CD właśnie trafiła na rynek), album zdobył czterokrotną platynę w USA. Podczas rozdania nagród Grammy w lutym 1986 roku "Miami Vice Theme" Hammera otrzymało dwie nagrody. Urodzony w Czechach muzyk zyskał wcześniej sławę jako członek Mahavishnu Orchestra, grając na Minimoogu na albumie "Mingus" Joni Mitchell oraz współpracując z takimi muzykami jak Jerry Goodmann, Jeff Beck, Al. Di Meola, gitarzysta Journey Neal Schon i John Abercrombie.
Od 1975 roku z powodzeniem koncertował również z Jan Hammer Group. Wraz z doskonałymi muzykami, takimi jak basista Fernando Saunders (m.in.. Lou Reed, Suzanne Vega), perkusista Tony Smith z latynoskiego zespołu rockowego Malo, a przede wszystkim skrzypek Steve Kindler (Mahavishnu Orchestra), Hammer położył podwaliny pod unikalne, pikantne, psychodeliczne fusion. Najlepiej doświadczyć tego na koncercie w 1975 roku w Nowym Jorku, teraz wreszcie dostępnym na płycie.

Editor's info:
Limited edition of 1,000 copies worldwide!!!!
A great live album by the later multiple Grammy Award winner and composer of the Miami Vice soundtrack Jan Hammer at the Bottom Line Club in New York in 1975 - An excellent line-up alongside Jan Hammer with Fernando Saunders (Lou Reed, Suzanne Vega), Tony Smith (Malo) and Steve Kindler (Mahavishnu Orchestra, Oregon) - Available physically (on CD) for the first time (for fans of Weather Report, Jeff Beck, Al… Di Meola, John McLaughlin, Mahavishnu Orchestra.
Czech-American jazz pianist, exceptional keyboarder and composer Jan Hammer is best known for his music for films and television series.
In 1984 he was commissioned to write the theme and background music for the new American crime series "Miami Vice". In November 1985, the Miami Vice soundtrack stormed to the top of the US Billboard charts. With over four million copies sold (the CD had just taken over the market), the album went four times platinum in the US. At the Grammy Awards in February 1986, Hammer's "Miami Vice Theme" won two awards.
The Czech-born musician had previously made a name for himself as a member of the Mahavishnu Orchestra, as a Minimoog player on Joni Mitchell's "Mingus" album and through his collaborations with musicians such as Jerry Goodman, Jeff Beck, Al… Di Meola, Journey guitarist Neal Schon and John Abercrombie.
From 1975 he also toured successfully with the Jan Hammer Group. With excellent musicians such as bassist Fernando Saunders (Lou Reed, Suzanne Vega, etc.), drummer Tony Smith from the Latin rock band Malo and, above all, violinist Steve Kindler (Mahavishnu Orchestra), Hammer laid the foundation for a unique, spacey, psychedelic fusion. Best experienced at their 1975 New York concert, now finally available on CD.

New Jersey Dispatch
The Jan Hammer Group's concert the other night at The Bottom Line, was complex without being pretentious, the performance virtuoso without seeming egotistical, the mood simultaneously relaxed, and nervously exploratory. Hammer, a master of keyboard instruments including pianos, synthesizers, digital sequencers, and the mellotron as well as the drums lit the stage with a blaze of total space age jazz improvisation. Forget Rick Wakeman and Keith Emerson. This 27-year- old Czech- turned American citizen, who bears a vague physical resemblance to Elton John, is undoubtedly the keyboard man of the future. This polyrhythm master gets your pulse beating from the tip of your tapping toes to the last shock of your hair. Hammer, smoothly changing from a piano modified to sound like a guitar to a low register organ as aptly backed up by drummer Tony Smith (formerly of Malo and Azteca) and bassist Fernando Saunders.
The other lead instrument in the four-piece band is the electric violin. Steven Kindler, who like Hammer, is a former member of John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra, complemented the keyboard solos and handled long passages of seemingly ad libitum jazz passages with the adroitness of a super star. His talent should have been noticed long ago. This music soars into outer space at the speed of light, no holds barred. This observer feels he must warn those listeners who are faint of heart to stay away. This kind of energy might give cardiac arrest to the modern jazz listening neophyte. Unfortunately, Hammer did only one number and the intro to another from his latest album, "The First Seven Days." This piece of craftsmanship is a delight right down to the cover.
This album matches the creativity imagined to have gone on in the first seven days of heaven and earth. Especially fine is the final cut, "The Seventh Day," where an eerie celestial mood is intermingled with the earthiness of syncopated piano work that changes its time signature with each measure. It is the final climax to a spellbound creation of the imagination. Hammer's music is at once primal and seething, teeming jungle undercurrents, and the most far-out adventures of a star trek to unknown thresholds of the mind. Its success lies in outstanding classical study and unending determination for new frontiers. It is the music of the future and it is older than man.
By LARRY VIANELLO

"It was literally bubbling on stage, the musicians put their egos aside and interacted constantly and highly energetically. For jazz and fusion fans, this reissue of the live recording first released in 2008 is a must." (GoodTimes, February/March 2025)

muzycy:
Jan Hammer: Keyboards
Steve Kindler: Electric Violin
Fernando Saunders: Electric Bass
Tony Smith: Drums

utwory:
1. Darkness (Earth In Search Of A Sun)
2. Red And Orange
3. Earth (Still Our Only Home)
4. Topeka
5. Twentey One
6. Sixth Day / Country And Eastern Music
7. I Remeber Me

wydano: Nov 29, 2024
nagrano: Recorded live between 17 and 19 October 1975 at the Bottom Line in New York.

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