OM (rock jazz band)

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OM
General information
Genre (s) Rock Jazz , Modern Creative
founding 1972, 2006
resolution 1982
Current occupation
Urs Leimgruber
Christy Doran
Bobby Burri
Fredy Studer

OM is a Swiss rock jazz band that was initially active between 1972 and 1982 and now only performs occasionally.

history

The group, whose musicians had played together in various rock bands for a long time, formed after an engagement at the Stadttheater Luzern , initially under the temporary name Superflex , before taking its name from a record by John Coltrane . Although most of the pieces were brought in by Christy Doran, the band understood themselves as a collective and worked on the pieces at joint rehearsals: “A lustful, clear, imaginative, total music, beyond the fashion shadows; not fixated on counterpoint (which they also master); not prayer music to illustrate the anti-civilizing bow to the east (..); not free copy and electric jazz arts and crafts. "( Wilhelm F. Liefland )

Not only the electric guitar was coupled with many electronic devices, such as ring modulators and delays . OM was one of the first European jazz groups that always had a sound engineer with them because they “worked with sound ..., including an electrically amplified double bass with floor effects (..), a system with reverb effects for saxophone, z. Sometimes the drums and percussion were also reinforced. ” OM played at the Jazz Festival Montreux and at hundreds of concerts in Europe; it became very well known not only in Switzerland, but above all in Germany. Since 1977 the band has performed regularly with Dom Um Romão , and more rarely with other musicians, such as keyboard players like the Austrian Peter Ponger .

Rolling Stone magazine selected their 1978 album OM with Dom Um Romao in its list The 100 Best Jazz Albums at number 90.

Reunification

The four musicians from OM played together again for the first time in 2006 on the occasion of an exhibition on the 1960s and 1970s in the Lucerne Nature Museum . Since then they have appeared together several times, for example at the jazz festivals in Willisau (2008, album) and Schaffhausen (2010, radio recording). In doing so, they did not warm up their old music again in the sense of a “reunion”, but built on the experiences that the individual members have had since then, including in the new improvisational music .

Discography

  • Montreux - Live and More (1974, Indian Records)
  • Kirikuki (1975, JAPO Records )
  • Rautionaha (1976, JAPO)
  • With Dom Um Romão (1977, JAPO)
  • Cerberus (1980, JAPO)
  • A Retrospective (1976–1980, ECM )
  • Fredy Studer / Christy Doran: Half a Lifetime (1979-82, Unit)
  • Willisau (2008, Intakt Records )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Thorsten Meyer Everything else, but not “Reunion”: OM Jazz Podium 5/2010: 3–4
  2. ↑ cit. n. Jazzpodium 5/2010, p. 3
  3. ↑ Bruno Spoerri, Jazz in Switzerland. History and stories Zurich 2005, p. 153
  4. ↑ Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Jazz Albums . Retrieved November 16, 2016.
  5. ↑ on one piece additionally Erdman Birke (acc)
  6. ↑ Selection from the four JAPO albums
  7. ↑ On this double CD there are only two pieces by OM with the guests Wolfgang Dauner , Manfred Schoof , Charlie Mariano , Jasper van't Hof , Dom Um Romão and Trilok Gurtu