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ROIO of the Week [Recordings
of Indeterminate Origin]
When
Jazz Was Free II
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Gunter
Hampel Galaxie Dream Band With Jeanne Lee
Jazzland
Vienna [no label, 2CD]
Live at
Jazzland, Vienna, October 2, 1973.
For rock fans, Jeanne
Lee came into view when she sang on Carla Bley's Escalator Over The Hill
in 1971 which featured rock musicians like Jack Bruce, Linda Ronstadt
and John McLaughlin. But she had already been to Germany and played with
the Gunter Hampel Galaxie Dream Band recording The
8th July 1969. She can also be heard on Marion Brown's In Sommerhausen
(1969), a fellow expatriate who made his mark with the 1970 recording
Afternoon Of A Georgia Faun which Jeanne Lee also had a part in. That
album's free jazz styling had been influenced by European avant garde.
This is free jazz
with Lee using her voice as an instrument. Not scat nor throat-singing
or ululations but if you want something familiar to grapple, try thinking
of Clare Torry's outstanding moment just singing wordlessly on Pink Floyd's
The Great Gig In The Sky which also came out in 1973. The musicians backing
Lee don't move along with her as the Floyd do with Torry but are actually
parallel. She sings, they play.
Folksong is her take
on the ethnic identity, so the rhythm she sets evokes Africa. Her wordless
Languages, Seeds And Roots sounds like an imaginary language with a form
but no words, pleading to be understood. The music blares in confusion
like the legendary morning after at the Tower of Babel alternating between
chaos and comprehension. Free jazz fans will love this track. You seldom
get to hear a quartet of flutists take charge as they do in the middle
passage, soloing, exploring and building the mood.
This is only the
second set and the encore when Lee takes centre stage.
Jeanne Lee was diagnosed
with cancer and died Oct 24, 2000 in Tijuana, Mexico while seeking alternative
medical treatment. This audience recording was shared by gchrisnick on
Dime. It is an outstanding quality stereo recording capturing the ambience
of the venue well.
- Professor Red 
Anyone looking for
more music by Gunter Hampel can contact him at GuntHampel@aol.com
or visit his site (www.gunterhampelmusic.de).
Click
on the highlighted tracks to download the MP3s (these are high quality,
stereo MP3s - sample rate of 192 kibit/s). As far as we can ascertain,
this recording has never been officially released.
These tracks are no longer available for download. Kindly email us at
mybigo@bigozine.com if you want
to download these tracks at a later time.
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Disc
I (second set)
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| Track
01 |
Atmo
(1.7MB) |
| Track
02 |
Folk Song > Languages,
Seeds And Roots > No 74 > Grand Tour
part a (23.3MB)
part b (11.7MB)
part c (12.1MB)
part d (14.1MB)
part e (11.8MB)
part f (11.0MB)
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Disc
2 (encore)
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| Track
01 |
Motorcycle
part a (15.8MB)
part b (12.8MB)
part c (6.1MB)
part d (5.0MB) |
Lineup:
Gunter Hampel - fl, p, bcl
Jeanne
Lee - vocals
Mark Whitecage
- reeds, fl, cl
Alan Preskin
- as, fl, cl
Thomas Keyserling
- fl
Marty Cook
- tb
Jonathan Kline
- violin (1st set only)
Jack Gregg
- b
For Jeanne Lee's work with husband Gunter Hampel, look for "The 8th of
July 1969" (Birth #OO1, 1969). Anthony Braxton is on this. For a less
than more traditional jazz singer work, try Jeanne Lee and Ran Blake's
The Newest Sound Around [1961 and rereleased in 1988 as The Legendary
Duets] where some standards are attempted. Her political album remains
Conspiracy [Earthform Records] from 1974 but has been out-of-print for
a long time. You can still buy a copy of The 8th of July 1969
here.
For more... email mybigo@bigozine.com
with the message, "Put me on your mailing list."
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February
2, 2008
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