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Animal Dance is a jazz album by John Lewis and Albert Mangelsdorff . It mainly contains titles that the composer and pianist John Lewis recorded with Albert Mangelsdorff in trio and quartet line-up and which were created on July 30, 1962 in the studio of Südwestfunk Baden-Baden . The album was released on Atlantic Records in 1964 .
The album
At the beginning of June 1962 the Albert Mangelsdorff Quintet played with Heinz Sauer , Günter Kronberg , Günter Lenz and Hartwig Bartz at the jazz festival in Bled in what was then Yugoslavia ; the band had been hired for a short time as a replacement for a prevented Polish group. John Lewis, who performed regularly with the Modern Jazz Quartet in Bled and was on friendly terms with the Zagreb Jazz Quartet through his Yugoslav wife , had heard the Mangelsdorff concert. Thereupon he said to Horst Lippmann : "For me there are only two trombonists in jazz - one is JJ Johnson and the other is ... Albert Mangelsdorff." Lewis expressed the desire to record a joint album and convinced his then label Atlantic , to publish this; the recordings were made a few weeks later - after Lewis had recorded the album European Encounter with Svend Asmussen in Stockholm at the beginning of July - in the studio of Südwestfunk in Baden-Baden, in an ad hoc quartet with Karl Theodor Geier on bass and with Silvije Glojnarić , who belonged to the Zagreb Jazz Quartet , on drums.
Mangelsdorff later reported on the session in an interview with Bruno Paulot:
“We met in the early afternoon, played the pieces briefly and recorded. In addition, I didn't even know the pieces that John Lewis brought back then. I only contributed one track, Set 'Em Up , all the rest, with the exception of one standard , Autumn Leaves , were by John Lewis. We played Autumn Leaves in a trio without Lewis. We stopped at around 1 a.m. I consciously say "stopped" because we weren't actually finished yet. We should have recorded one more title; but I think it was John Lewis who said he was too tired. Later he added the Zagreb Jazz Quartet to the missing title. "
In this quartet played alongside Silvije Glojnarić, the pianist Davor Kajfeš , vibraphonist Boško Petrović and bassist Miljenko Prohaska .
In the title composition Animal Dance , which shows how Lewis Mangelsdorff perceived, the trombonist played the "airy-reduced" theme with precision and swing ; he “easily adapts to the different atmospheres that Lewis intended for the piece.” In the trio piece Autumn Leaves , which begins and ends with an unaccompanied solo passage on the trombone, Mangelsdorff convinces with a “motivically conscious” improvisation. His own contribution Set 'em Up is an up-tempo number in which his virtuoso playing is presented, “which breaks phrases, plays with motifs, repeats them, changes them, develops them further.” Mangelsdorff changed in the Lewis composition Monday in Milan "Between wonderfully bluesy intonated passages and a modern swinging intonation."
Mangelsdorff commented critically on the session with John Lewis that his compositions were “very precisely defined in the conception”, that his contributions therefore no longer consisted of one or two choruses and that he “did not have the opportunity to [himself] play off right. "Nonetheless, it Animal Dance so far been important to him," as even a weighty American musician did something to me. "This has led to the initiative of Horst Lippmann towards its next board session Tension for Columbia Records came about be.
Track list
- John Lewis & Albert Mangelsdorff & The Zagreb Jazz Quartet: Animal Dance (Atlantic SD 1402)
A1 John Lewis & Albert Mangelsdorff: Animal Dance (John Lewis) 2:39
A2 John Lewis & Albert Mangelsdorff: Autumn Leaves ( Jacques Prévert , Joseph Kosma ) 6:42
A3 John Lewis & Albert Mangelsdorff: Set 'Em Up (Mangelsdorff) 3 : 18
A4 John Lewis & Albert Mangelsdorff: Monday in Milan (John Lewis) 5:26
B1 John Lewis & Albert Mangelsdorff: The Sheriff (John Lewis) 3:55
B2 John Lewis & Albert Mangelsdorff: Why Are You Blue ( Gary McFarland ) 6:33
B3 The Zagreb Jazz Quartet: Ornaments (Davor Kajfeš) 6:33
reception
Ken Dryden gave the album four (out of five) stars in Allmusic, noting that although the musicians hadn't played together before, they quickly adopted the original Lewis and Mangelsdorff compositions, as well as the familiar standard Autumn Leaves and Gary McFarland's Why Are you blue . The decision of the band leader Lewis was confirmed by Mangelsdorff's impressive game.
In the Rough Guide: Jazz , Ian Carr emphasized that Mangelsdorff's play on Animal Dance was wonderfully lyrical. The The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz rated the album with four stars. For the jazz researcher Wolfgang Knauer, the cast of the drummer is "the biggest weak point of the album."
Editor's note
After the Atlantic editions in Europe and the United States, Animal Dance was released in 1975 in Japan (Atlantic P-4510A). There, in 1992, the first edition of the album was published as a compact disc (Atlantic AMCY-1100) in the Atlantic Jazz Master Collection series. The album was also released on CD in 1999, coupled with the Lewis EP A Milanese Story (a soundtrack from 1962).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Wolfram Knauer , "Play yourself, man!" The history of jazz in Germany. Reclam, Stuttgart 2019, p. 219
- ↑ cit. n. Jürgen Schwab The Frankfurt Sound. A city and its jazz history (s) . Societäts-Verlag Frankfurt am Main 2004, p. 159
- ↑ a b Bruno Paulot: Albert Mangelsdorff. Conversations. Oreos, Waakirchen 1993, ISBN 3-923657-42-0 , p. 100f.
- ^ A b c W. Knauer, "Play yourself, man!" The history of jazz in Germany. Reclam, Stuttgart 2019, p. 220
- ↑ Review of Ken Dryden's Animal Dance album at Allmusic . Retrieved November 11, 2013.
- ↑ Ian Carr, Brian Priestley , Digby Fairweather (Eds.): Rough Guide Jazz. ISBN 1-85828-137-7 , p. 403.
- ^ Colin Larkin : The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz. Virgin Books, 2004, p. 559.
- ↑ Discographic information at Discogs
- ↑ A Milanese Story / Animal Dance (Allmusic)