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The Life And Art Of Jutta Hipp
This box provides a complete overview of this versatile artist, including Jutta Hipp’s complete recordings and featuring a collection of paintings, drawings and cartoons as well as letters and poems. The phases in her life – from post-war Germany to her new home in New York – are illustrated with a cornucopia of private pictures, art school sketches, paintings and interviews. All included in a Hardcover book with 208 full colour pages. She was a cool jazz icon in post-war Germany and conquered …
Shozyg Music For Invented Instruments
Last Copies ** Limited Edition of 200 copies. This is the first album in BeJazz reissue series of long-lost classics from the legendary vaults of FMP Records, presented in restored original packaging and newly remastered for optimal sound ** Working with his own, specially crafted electronic instruments, Hugh Davies generates soundscapes that are at times whimsical, ritualistic and profoundly playful. Shozyg, a performance and improvisational instrument, first created in 1968, consists of fretsa…
Schizo
Pianist Berndt Egerbladh was a prolific writer with considerable talents, who also recorded with Lars Lystedt. The three musicians in this trio (Egerbladh, Björn Alke and Sten Ödberg) were all on the same wavelength and able to change between different musical moods. This is a remastered vinyl reissue of a 1964 recording, issued in an edition of 500 LP's.
Night Music 1974
A never-heard live session from the great Eje Thelin – a mid 70s set that has the trombonist working with a cool quartet that includes some Fender Rhodes from Harald Svensson – who makes a wonderful partner for Thelin's long-blown lines! Eje had already grown tremendously as a musician in the 60s – from bop to modern to avant in the space of a few short years – and here, he moves back into more soulful territory which opens up perfectly next to the Rhodes – with these very fluid, open solos that…
Jazz Jamboree 62 Vol. 2
A CD-issue of excellent '62 live recordings from the highly regarded Swedish jazz trombonist
Fly To Brazil
Strerath is a pianist of European calibre and he has won numerous prizes since 1967. The Walter Strerath Trio played at many Jazz Festivals in Europe and they were invited to play at Newport in the early 1970s. On this 1975 session they explore the music of Brazil.The Bossa Nova is sort of a feed-back of North-American jazz with its drive, blues and beat compared to Brazilian samba with its “joie de vivre” and optimism. The Walter Strerath Trio commands this synthesis between North and South in …
Jazz Under The Midnight Sun
A remastered vinyl reissue. The Lars Lystedt Sextet from Sweden played many international Jazz festivals in the early '60s. On the sessions presented here the band features the astonishing Leif Hellman and Lars Göran Ulander on sax. Edition of 500 copies.
European Jazz Sounds
The 'European Jazz Sounds' series, that started around 1960 with legendary albums by the Michael Naura Quintet, Tubby Hayes and Max Greger, sees a welcome revival! This first volume presents the early recordings of the renowned Joki Freund Quintet from the late 1950s. German saxophonist and arranger Joki Freund played with Jutta Hipp in the mid-'50s, before forming his own Joki Freund Quintet. During the late '50s they played various European festivals, together with visiting American musicians …
More Modern At The German Jazz Festival 1966
An incredible meeting of talents – both American and European jazz musicians coming together at a festival that must have been one hell of a event – certainly more exciting than just about any jazz festival we've ever attended in our lifetime! Unlike other festival recordings, this isn't just any sort of rehash of standards, done by all-star groups – and instead showcases some of the best modern jazz talents on both sides of the Atlantic in the mid 60s – all trying to outdo each other with their…
Modern At The German Jazz Festival 1966
Double album with unreleased live recordings from the German Jazz Festival 1966 featuring all the big German names of the time - Albert Mangelsdorff, Horst Jankowski, Hans Koller, Rolf Kühn, Klaus Doldinger etc! Listen to Mangelsdorff's "Plakate" or Kühn/Doldinger's "Gemini Waltz". Limited edition release (500 copies) with spectacular sound quality! "We are very excited to announce what we think is one of the most exciting jazz albums that have been issued in recent years. It includes the most b…
International Holy Hill Jazz Meeting 1969
CD version. BE! JAZZ is happy to come up with a true “holy” modern/free jazz gems of the late 1960s. The original double LP was issued by Meno Liechtenstein’s CB Records – he was also the organizer of the “International Holy Hill Jazz Meeting” in Heidelberg/Germany. The sound quality on the original album was not really bad – but it certainly was not really good as well. We spent a lot of work on a proper restoration of the live tapes. The result is truly amazing – after almost 50 years we are n…
Eje Thelin At The German Jazz Festival
An amazing set from Swedish trombonist Eje Thelin – a live date, but a totally excellent session that stands as one of the best demonstration of his talents in the 60s! On the European scene at the time, Thelin was easily one of the most inventive players on the trombone – one of the few who could hit the soulful swing of American musicians like Curtis Fuller or JJ Johnson, but also an artist who was starting to stretch out into new realms too – just a touch of Grachan Moncur and Roswell Rudd, w…
Café des Pyrénnées
Edition of 500. Rare LP with Hans Koller, Albert & Emil Mangelsdorff, Joki Freund, Pepsi Auer and more of the German jazz elite. One of the long forgotten masterpieces of European -especially German-
Modern Jazz is the legendary 'Rhein Main Jump' album! The original
version was issued in 1958 by the JAZZTONE label. If you are in any way
familiar with jazz, just check the line-up and you will have an idea of
the music's quality. As far as we know the music has never been
re-issued anywhere.N…
Nelson's Waltz
Wolf Escher turned to Modern Jazz while studying music in Dortmund. He played in the Peter Heidemann Quintet, and performed with Ingfried Hoffmann's big band at the Kölner Jazz Festival in 1967. In 1969 he recorded his first single with the Wolf Escher Quintet for the legendary JG label. This single is a much coveted collector's item today. He subsequently toured with the Big Bands of Johannes Fehring and Dusko Goykovich. In 1972 he formed the fusion band Time In Space, which was successful in c…
European Jazz Sounds
The few recordings made by the Modern Jazz Group, based in Freiburg, Germany, are scarcely documented. The MJGF was founded around
1954 by pianist Ewald "Waldi" Heidepriem, one of the pioneers of modern
jazz in Germany in the 1950s. The music of the Modern Jazz Group
Freiburg was truly excellent. Even today it sounds incredibly modern and
energetic. This release documents a wonderful chapter of German jazz
history. European modern jazz at its finest! Vinyl-edition.
Rhein Main Jump
One of the long forgotten masterpieces of European -especially German- Modern Jazz is the legendary 'Rhein Main Jump' album! The original version was issued in 1958 by the Jazztone label. If you are in any way familiar with jazz, just check the line-up and you will have an idea of the music's quality. As far as we know the music has never been re-issued anywhere. With Hans Koller, Albert & Emil Mangelsdorff, Joki Freund, Pepsi Auer and more of the German jazz eliteNow this reissue appears with f…
International Holy Hill Jazz Meeting 1969
BeJazz is happy to come up with a limited edition (500 copies) of a true “holy” modern/free jazz gems of the late 1960s. The original double LP was issued by Meno Liechtenstein’s CB Records – he was also the organizer of the “International Holy Hill Jazz Meeting” in Heidelberg/Germany. The sound quality on the original album was not really bad – but it certainly was not really good as well. We spent a lot of work on a proper restoration of the live tapes. The result is truly amazing – after almo…
So Far
Between 1961 and 1965 Eje Thelin formed his first own group with which he toured across Europe. In 1964 he performed in Copenhagen with George Russell; from the late 60s to the mid-70s he played with Joachim Kühn and John Surman and turned to Free Jazz. This quintet is famous for the cooperation with Belgian Joel Vandrooogenbroeck, who had played with big names such as Barney Wilen and Zoot Sims. In 1968 Vandroogenbroeck formed the experimental rockband Brainticket.This 1963 session features the…
Santana
** Limited Edition of 200 copies. This is the second album in BeJazz reissue series of long-lost classics from the legendary vaults of FMP Records, presented in restored original packaging and newly remastered for optimal sound ** Here’s the *real* Santana! This is a vibrant and exciting album – a lively document of early free music. Drummer Pierre Favre was interested in space and jagged rhythms at the time, with Irene Schweizer adding creative lyricism and Peter Kowald’s fat bass lines pulsing…
For Friends And Relatives
2018 repress. Landmark work from the Finnish scene of the 60s – one of those ultra-rare European jazz records that collectors have dug for decades! The set's got a stark, modern sort of feel – but also a nice soulful swing, too – a balance that few of the other Scandinavians hit so well at the time – as they were either hanging between farther-out progressions, or more inside, tightly arranged jazz! Drummer Christian Schwindt's vision here is exceptional – full of rich feeling, deep tone, and ca…