Now Jazz Ramwong
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| Studio album by Albert Mangelsdorff | ||||
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| Label (s) | CBS , Pacific Jazz , Amiga , L + R Records | |||
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LP / CD |
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12 |
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41:48 |
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Walldorf recording studio Frankfurt |
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Now Jazz Ramwong is a jazz album that the Albert Mangelsdorff Quintet recorded on June 6th and 7th, 1964 in Frankfurt am Main. It was released in 1964 by Columbia Records , in an expanded form in 1980 by L + R Records . The record title component "Ramwong" denotes a Thai folk dance .
The album
The album was created after an Asia tour that the Albert Mangelsdorff Quintet had undertaken for the Goethe Institute . From the end of December 1963 to March 1964 the band played 50 concerts in 20 Asian countries. Joachim-Ernst Berendt developed the concept for this . It provided for “folk music and popular pieces that he had brought from different countries to be edited and presented as a gesture to the audience there.” Mangelsdorff selected a few pieces for this purpose, transcribed them from tape and arranged them. "The familiar pieces built a bridge for the audience to jazz, which was still a fairly unknown thing in some of the countries we toured."
A few months after the tour, the tracks were recorded in the Walldorf recording studio by Dieter von Goetze and Detlev Kittler. The album Now Jazz Ramwong followed in 1964 as the third release in the same series of records that Horst Lippmann had started with Tension for the record label CBS .
The title track Now Jazz Ramwong is a modal composition influenced by Thai folk music in which Heinz Sauer plays the soprano saxophone. Three Jazz Moods on a Theme from Pather Panchali is an adaptation by Mangelsdorff of a theme from the film music that Ravi Shankar wrote in 1955 for the feature film Pather Panchali by Satyajit Ray ; There was also Es sungen Drei Engel , an old German Christmas carol from the 13th century, which Berendt recommended and which had already been adopted into the jazz repertoire by Roland Kirk and Benny Golson in 1963 . Mangelsdorff's compositions Blue Fanfare and Blues Du Domicile are bop- oriented blues numbers; Heinz Sauer contributed the Club Trois title . Set 'Em Up and Ballad for Jessica Rose came from the band's repertoire at the time and are also part of the album Tension recorded the previous year . The rhythm section contributed the duo piece Racknash (not included on the original LP), to which they were inspired by a visit to the music school of Ravi Shankar in Bombay and which "plays with elements of Indian music".
Track list
- Albert Mangelsdorff Quintet: Now Jazz Ramwong (CBS 62398)
A1 Now Jazz Ramwong (Mangelsdorff) 8:58
A2 Sakura Waltz (Mangelsdorff) 3:24
A3 Blue Fanfare (Albert Mangelsdorff) 6:40
B1 Three Jazz Moods (On a Theme by Ravi Shankar) 6:10
B2 Burungkaka (Albert Mangelsdorff) 3:26
B3 Raknash (Günter Lenz, Ralf Hübner) 4:41
B4 Theme from Vietnam (Mangelsdorff) 0:56
B5 Three angels sang (trad) 7:33
reception
The album received positive reviews when it was released; In 1966, the music magazine Stereo Review recorded Performance: Spirited and complex, Recording: Good, Stereo Quality: Good In 1966, Der Spiegel wrote that Indian tabla drums and Japanese koto harps had “made the Mangelsdorff quintet original and captivating during an extensive tour of Asia and by European, American and Asian experts equally valued jazz implementations of traditional folklore from Bengal, Vietnam, Japan and Indonesia ”. The author emphasized the long solo and collective improvisations of the five musicians, which "testified to the quality of German export jazz", which the Evening News in Manila had compared to the Volkswagen.
Ken Dryden gave the album four (out of five) stars in Allmusic and emphasized that Albert Mangelsdorff offered an excellent mix of Eastern and Western music in his arrangements. Although this long unavailable music has reappeared on CD, it may still be somewhat challenging to acquire. British critic Eric Thacker pointed out that Now Jazz Ramwong not only contained some of the fruits of the search for expanded boundaries of jazz expression, but also exemplified "the free jazz aptitude of the magnificent quintet."
Editor's note
After the first edition in West Germany of Now Jazz Ramwong: The Albert Mangelsdorff Quintet in Asia as Columbia LP (CBS 62398) in 1964, the album was released in the United States as Now, Jazz Ramwong in 1966 on Pacific Jazz Records (ST-20095 and PJ -10095), but in a shortened form and a different composition. In 1980 Now Jazz Ramwong was re-released on L + R Records (LR 41.007). In the GDR a license edition was published by Amiga (850041). Áls Compact Disc was released in 1993 by L + R Records in the distribution of Bellaphon Records (CDLR 71001), again in 2012 by Bellaphon (BS 6-04-2-038).
A live recording from June 22, 1964 from the Audimax Freiburg, which contains most of the tracks on the album, was published in the Legends Live series at Jazzhaus .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Jürgen Schwab The Frankfurt Sound. A city and its jazz history (s) . Societäts-Verlag: Frankfurt am Main 2004, p. 160
- ↑ Bruno Paulot: Albert Mangelsdorff. Conversations. Waakirchen: Oreos, 1993, p. 232f. - ISBN 3-923657-42-0
- ↑ Jürgen Schwab The Frankfurt Sound. A city and its jazz history (s) . Societäts-Verlag: Frankfurt am Main 2004, p. 161
- ↑ a b c Review of the album Tension at Allmusic (English). Retrieved November 11, 2013.
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, November 17, 2013)
- ^ Andrew Wright Hurley The Return of Jazz: Joachim-Ernst Berendt and West German Cultural Change Berghahn Books 2009, p. 102
- ↑ Stereo Review, Volume 16, 1966, p. 118
- ↑ Review of the album in Der Spiegel (1966)
- ↑ cf. Max Harrison , Charles Fox, Eric Thacker The Essential Jazz Records: Modernism to Postmodernism London 2000, p. 688
- ↑ Discographic information at Discogs
- ↑ Legends Live: Albert Mangelsdorff Quintet
- ↑ Mark S. Tucker noted in the Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange : This isn't purely a horns blowout session either, though those axes get the lion's share of time. The entirety of Raknahs is infact given over to Lenz and Hubner, a nice muscle flexing arena to romp around in, all their own, start to finish. But the brass section does indeed get the spotlight, and, if you're of a mind to travel back to post-beatnik pre-hippie days, this is the e-ticket you've been looking for and then some. Legends Live: Albert Mangelsdorff Quintet