PETER BROTZMANN LONG STORY SHORT FULL

They share a stage with MaДЃllem Mokhtar Gania (Guembri) and Hamid Drake (drums) in a wide-ranging 50-something minutes of patented Laswell free/fusion. There are no nostalgic reunions here with the likes of Han Bennink or Evan Parker, except for one notable exception: itвЂ™s nice to see BrГ¶tzmann put any lingering animosity over the Iron Path production debacle aside to play alongside his one-time Last Exit colleague Bill Laswell. Long Story ShortВ focuses intensely on BrГ¶tzmannвЂ™sВ present creative milieu. That trio is also featured here,В cementing their rapport just four days before recording theirВ superb studio album, YatagarasuВ (Not Two). SatohвЂ™s piece is shorter, a bold, imperiously fluid elaboration of his function within the monumentally architectural trio completed by BrГ¶tzmann and drummerВ Takeo Moriyama. But BrГ¶tzmann doesnвЂ™t play on every performance: there are various ad-hoc groupings, an outing for Caspar BrГ¶tzmannвЂ™s Massaker, and substantial solo statements by pianistВ Masahiko Satoh and Keiji Haino (electric guitar and voice).ДЄt 21вЂ™44вЂќ, the Haino solo is a mature and at times surpassingly beautiful piece which, though it peaks in incandescent intensities, shies away from extremes of expression.

PETER BROTZMANN LONG STORY SHORT FULL

There are two long pieces here by the BrГ¶tzmann Chicago Tentet (both with significant guest artists), one by Tentet offshoot reed trio Sonore, and one each from the plugged-in BrГ¶tzmann-led groups Hairy Bones and Full Blast. The set documents 18 performances that brought musicians from BrГ¶tzmannвЂ™s native European free scene together with collaborators based inВ Chicago, New York, Japan and Morocco. Long Story ShortВ presents 5 CDs-worth of music from the BrГ¶tzmann-curated Unlimited 25 festival, held in Wels, Austria, in November 2011 three days of music: вЂњnot a retrospective but a representation of the contemporary musical spheres that BrГ¶tzmann and his comrades are investigating todayвЂќ.

Peter brotzmann long story short