Tension (Albert Mangelsdorff album)
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| Studio album by Albert Mangelsdorff | ||||
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| Label (s) | Columbia Records , Amiga , L + R Records | |||
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LP / CD |
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Title (number) |
6th |
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45:13 |
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Walldorf recording studio |
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Tension is a jazz album that the Albert Mangelsdorff Quintet recorded from July 8th to 11th, 1963 in Frankfurt am Main. It was released by Columbia Records in 1964 and was the group's first album.
The album
In 1963, Tension was the first release in a series of records that Horst Lippmann produced for the US record label Columbia Records . "It is set up by me as an independent, free producer, regardless of financial considerations," wrote Lippmann in the Jazz Podium . Regardless of the compulsion to depict fashions and trends, the images in this series should first and foremost meet artistic criteria. Lippmann bore the financial risk himself. Günther Kieser designed the album cover .
For the first production in this series, Lippmann chose Mangelsdorff: Tension was the first album that Mangelsdorff was able to record with his quintet, which consisted of this line-up for the next five years. The sound engineer was Dieter von Goetze .
For Mangelsdorff himself, this album meant “a certain turning point” in its development; In addition to his work in the hr jazz ensemble , "actually a new phase" began with the Animal Dance from 1962 and even further with Tension : "For me it was the beginning of what I could say: From here on it counts." The trombonist observed specifically on this LP that “here a European group has made quite original music and played their own compositions throughout. That was something that had not been heard in Europe. "
Albert Mangelsdorff pointed out that most of the groups played almost only jazz standards at that time . Mangelsdorff further commented on this attitude:
- Every art is an expression of the time in which it was created and a reflection of the environment in which we live. That is why a jazz musician in Europe should not ask himself to play like a colored musician in New York or Chicago, he should not try and be expected of him simply because his problems are different and his life circle different conditions is subject.
Mangelsdorff went on to say that "many European jazz musicians do not make sufficient use of this freedom to express themselves and their personality - even if only to break away musically from a role model, an idol that they admire."
Track list
- Albert Mangelsdorff Quintet: Tension (CBS 62336)
A1 Club Trois 5:52
A2 Blues du Domicile 11:14
A3 Set'em Up 6:10
B1 Varié 7:26
B2 Tension 10:33
B3 Ballad for Jessica Rose 3:58
reception
The editor of the Down Beat , Don DeMichael, rated the album with four and a half points out of five; Particularly noteworthy was the “delicate touch of freedom that can also be found in the best works of our own avant-garde .” Mangelsdorff mentioned in his interviews with Bruno Paulot the response the album received in the United States; the critic of the down beat stated at the time that “our ensemble playing is better than that of American groups”.
According to Jürgen Schwab , Tension became “a manifesto not only for the class and independence of the ensemble, but also for European jazz in general.” The three wind players used “the greater freedom resulting from the lack of a harmony instrument and began to break away from the hardbop idiom . Albert Mangelsdorff in particular shows a pronounced personal style. ”On the other hand, Allmusic only awarded three (out of five) stars to the album .
In West Germany in the 1960s, the album was "temporarily one of the ten best-selling CBS records." The Albert Mangelsdorff Quintet's first tour in the GDR and the release of the LP One Tension on Amiga had a signal effect for GDR jazz in September 1965. Bert Noglik names the Mangelsdorff LP and Solarius by Joachim and Rolf Kühn as the first two jazz records he owned.
Editor's note
The album Tension was first released as a mono LP in 1963 by Columbia; In 1965, Amiga published a licensed edition in the GDR under the title One Tension (AMIGA 850038). In 1970 the album was also released under One Tension on CBS / Sony (SONP 50278, SONP-50278); In 1979 a new edition followed in West Germany on L + R Records (LR 41.001). It was first released as a compact disc in 1993 by L + R Records as Tension! published by Bellaphon Records (CDLR 71002); a new edition appeared in 2012 under One Tension by Bellaphon (6-2-039).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b quotation from Jürgen Schwab: The Frankfurt Sound. A city and its jazz history (s) . Societäts-Verlag Frankfurt am Main 2004, p. 159.
- ↑ a b c d Jürgen Schwab The Frankfurt Sound. A city and its jazz history (s) . Frankfurt am Main 2004, p. 159
- ↑ a b Bruno Paulot: Albert Mangelsdorff. Conversations. Waakirchen: Oreos, 1993, p. 100f. - ISBN 3-923657-42-0
- ↑ a b c Rainer Bratfisch: Free tones: the jazz scene in the GDR , 2005, page 85
- ↑ Listing of the album Tension on Allmusic (English). Retrieved November 11, 2013.
- ↑ Maxi Sickert, Rolf Kühn: Clarinet bird - Jazz talk , 2009, p. 155
- ↑ Discographic information at Discogs