New Jazz Trio – Page Two (1972/2017) [HighResAudio FLAC 24bit/88,2kHz]

New Jazz Trio – Page Two (1972/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 47:40 minutes | 947 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: HighResAudio | Front Cover | © MPS

With the addition of a string quintet, The New Jazz Trio’s ‘second page’ expands on their first MPS album, Page One, by ingeniously melding the heady experimentation of the classical Avant-garde with the exuberant spontaneity of free jazz. For Schoof, the overall musical interaction rather than the individual solos had precedence. He specified that, “on every track all musicians played spontaneously.” Yet soloistic passages weave in and out of a music that ranges from Ornette-like free jazz blanketed by the string section’s “white noise” in Currents, the pointillist Feathered Friends, the frenetic…And Accents, the Mysterioso Sunmoonata, the frenzied Ludus Totalus, a deliriously jazzy Dolbi, the otherworldly Open Zoo, the receptive free-for-all of Portraits, the pulsating insistence of Hommage, on through to the intense drive of Absolute. This was a daring album for its time, one that has maintained its sense of urgent relevancy for nearly a half century.

In 1970, three of Europe’s leading first-wave Avant-gardists united to form the New Jazz Trio. They personified the movement of modern jazz towards a freer more exploratory direction. German trumpeter Manfred Schoof felt at home with the exquisite simplicity of Mal Waldron as well as the cyclonic free play of Peter Brötzmann, maneuvered through the mainstream jazz currents of the Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band and the outré experimentation of The Global Unity Orchestra. German bassist Peter Trunk and Dutch drummer Cees See were like musical freethinkers.

Tracklist:
01 – Currents
02 – Feathered Friends
03 – … And Accents
04 – Sunmoonata
05 – Ludus Totalis
06 – Dolbi
07 – Open Zoo
08 – Portraits
09 – Hommage
10 – Absolute

Produced by New Jazz Trio. Engineered by Gerd Rautenbach.
Recorded in January 1972 at Rhenus Studio, Godorf, Germany.
Digitally Remastered.

Musicians:
Manfred Schoof – cornet, flugelhorn
Peter Trunk – bass, cello
Cees See, drums – percussion
Otello Liesmann – cello
Johannes Fritsch – viola
Manfred Niehaus – viola
Cristel-Renate Wüstenbecker – violin
Koenraad Ellegiers – violin

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