The Horizon Beyond
| The Horizon Beyond | |
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| Studio album by Attila Zoller | |
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Publication |
1965 |
| Label (s) | Mercury Records / Emarcy ; ACT , |
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Format (s) |
LP; CD |
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Title (number) |
6th |
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running time |
39'09 |
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Studio (s) |
Berlin (West), Peter Kramper, March 15, 1965 |
The Horizon Beyond is a jazz album by Attila Zoller .
As a compensation deal for his participation in two record productions by Klaus Doldinger ( In South America and Paul Nero: The Big Beat ), producer Siegfried Loch Zoller admitted that he would record his own record with his quartet. In addition to Don Friedman , with whom Zoller had previously played for Herbie Mann and also recorded the quartet record Dreams And Explorations , the quartet includes Barre Phillips and Daniel Humair . Zoller, Friedman and Phillips played as the Attila Zoller Trio in Berlin's Blue Note Club in March 1965 .
The album
- The Horizon Beyond (7'00)
- Exploration (5'12)
- Blizzards (6'40)
- Ictus ( Carla Bley ) (5'50)
- The Hun (6'30)
- Flash Back Two (Don Friedman) (7'21)
The compositions come from Zoller (unless otherwise stated). The concise but bulky themes of the compositions, new music as close as jazz, provide the impetus for free improvisation and interaction between the quartet's musicians.
Hall Overton points out in his liner notes that the most impressive thing about the record is how well the musicians involved are able to navigate through the field of free improvisation. The album “was a milestone in a liberation process for everyone involved. As Attila Zoller later admitted, it brought a much freer vocabulary when flowing back to a conventional style of play. "
Assessments
Zoller later rated the recording as "the most important record I have ever made". In 1965, however, the aesthetics of free interplay on this record disturbed some of the critics: Down-beat reviewer Pete Welding only gave the record three out of five possible stars, and this mainly "for the technical process that the four musicians demonstrate".
On the occasion of the re-release on CD in 1992, Bert Noglik praised the “balance of form and freedom. I will play this CD to all those who want to come back to me in the future with the argument that free jazz is booming and meaningless . ”For Werner Stiefele ( AudioPlus ), the still contemporary record“ marked the turnaround for the swinging bop successor to pulsating modernity ”. "The sense of form and motivic thinking of cool jazz are always present as aesthetic parameters in their forays into new harmonic and melodic horizons." For the guitarist Alexander Schmitz, it is even "the original work of guitaristic free-form music."
Other effects
After listening to the record, Joe Zawinul said to Zoller that the music sounds like a seascape and storms and spring. "Your band sounds like a weather report". A few months later he named his own band Weather Report .
Over the decades , Ulrich Olshausen used the striking theme from the piece Ictus as a signature tune for his program “The New Sound in Jazz” on Hessischer Rundfunk .
expenditure
- Emarcy LP 12 ": MGE-26013 - The Horizon Beyond
- Emarcy LP 12 ": SRE-66031 - The Horizon Beyond
- Act Zero CD: XRCN-1045 - The Horizon Beyond
- ACT CD: ACT 9211-2 - The Horizon Beyond (1992)
Individual evidence
- ↑ These records were recorded on March 14, 1965. See Géza Gábor Simon, immensely good. Attila Zoller. His life and his art. Budapest 2003, pp. 81f., 227ff.
- ↑ a b c Géza Gábor Simon, immensely good. Attila Zoller , p. 84
- ↑ This title is wrongly attributed to Zoller on the 1992 CD
- ↑ Gudrun Endres, Don Friedman, in: Jazzpodium (2006) ( Memento from August 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Jürgen Schwab, in Rondo 5/98 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ cit. according to jazz newspaper
- ↑ so Attila Zoller after Géza Gábor Simon, immensely good. Attila Zoller. Budapest 2003, p. 83
