Various Artists
Gittin’ to Know Y’All
MPS Records (France) 1970
MPS 15038 (LP) coated gatefold sleeve.
sleeve : VG+(TEOC, dirts.)
media : EX/EX(some slgithyl surface noises.)
This album is documenting <The Baden-Baden Free Jazz Meetng> held in Germany in 1969 under the general direction of music journalist/author Joachim Ernst Berendt, who has carried out various avant-garde projects since the 1950s. The sessions joined with Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Dave Burrell, Kenny Wheeler, Terje Rypdal, Barre Phillips, Albert Mangelsdorff, Eje Thelin, John Surman Alan Skidmore, Palle Danielson and many more, all leading figures in avant-jazz. A1/B1 is a cosmic jazz picture scroll with Lester Bowie at the helm and a total of 21 musicians creating a chaotic cosmic mandala. B2 is super deep jazz by The Terje Rypdal Group featuring Joesph Jarman, Bernt Rosengren, Karin Krog, Barre Phillips, Steve McCall and Claude Decloo. B2 is super deep jazz by The Terje Rypdal Group featuring Joesph Jarman, Bernt Rosengren, Karin Krog, Barre Phillips, Steve McCall and Claude Decloo. It is the Force World Session in the crystallisation of the 60s, when new forms of jazz were explored and practised. Highly recommended.