„Hang on to your dreams“ – Monthly Revelations (March)
Als Einstimmung auf die Empfehlungen für den März kann man einfach mal das Cover dieses zweiten Duo-Albums „Five Years Later“ von Ralph Towner und John Abercrombie auf sich wirken lassen. Zwei colorierte Liegestühle in einem ansonsten schwarzweissen Foto, weisse Gemäuer, das Meer, der Horizont. Die Liegegelegenheiten gleichsam ausgestellt, normalerweise müssten sie ja zum Meer gerichtet sein. Aber diese Sache kann der, der die Szene betritt, im Handumdrehen selbst erledigen. Vita contemplativa. Im Sommer 1976 sehe ich die beiden Musiker in versunkener Stimmung auf den Frankfurter Jazztagen, im grossen Saal. So spannungsgeladen, dass die feinsten Nuancen selbst um grossen Rund nicht verloren gehen. Im Februar 1982 liegt das kleine Paket von Jazz by Post mit der Schallplatte der Zwei in meinem Briefkasten in Bergeinöden bei Grasfilzing, in der Nähe von Arnschwang. Wundervolle Musik. Ich drehe die Liegestühle um, die Möwen kreischen, der Sound ist auch hier, am Ende der Welt, grossartig.
album Tinariwen
film Meredith Monk by Ingo
prose David Emling by Martina
talk Oliver Laxe
radio Tibbetts Towner & Abercrombie by Michael
binge Small Prophets
archive Paul McCandless by Brian
3 Kommentare
Brian Whistler
Yes, that cover, two empty chairs. Well, I do console myself with the fact that both of these artists were well recorded, and we had these two duo albums, not dimension quite a number of bootleg, live duo files floating around, as I mentioned in my little piece on Beirach and Towner, it’s different when the jazz artist dies, or a great Indian musician, or anyone whose work features a great deal of improvisation. Of course, that lineage moves on to the next generation, sometimes obliquely sometimes obviously, and there will be an art artist who were influenced by Towner and Abercrombie, who will keep the torchlight going.
(Incidentally, livejazzlounge.com, an incredible source of high-quality, (and sometimes not so high-quality) recordings of all our favorite artists, including several featuring these two, is no longer. I should’ve announced that here. For anyone who hasn’t come across that remarkable website, if interested in finding some of these wonderful concert recordings, you can still find them on archive.org
No fancy fake ECM covers anymore, or friendlier ways to look up the artist you’re trying to find, but they’re all here, at least most of them.
on this page: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://livejazzlounge.com/zipfiles/*
Brian Whistler
And I couldn’t figure out how to edit that comment. Any rate, I was saying not to mention not dimension.
And also, I wanted to add that there was a really nice as you would call it time travel experience, Michael.
I can picture you getting that album out of your mailbox after just having made a connection with them live. And then listening to it in that remote place.
flowworker
Thank you, Brian, for deepdiving into archives…
And, of course, by that time, 1982, i already had their first one, Sargasso Sea, for, well, five years, and still the places before my eyes in which they were played… two guitars, never in a hurry, nevertheless exciting! 😉
M