PETER BROTZMANN Tentet in Chicago - LIMITED EDITION LP

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"Two Lightboxes" on LOCUST ( 53 ) featuring the fire-breathing Free Jazz woodwind titan Peter Brotzmann and his Tentet ( +2 ) consisting of himself, Ken Vandermark ( reeds ), Mars Williams ( reeds ), Mats Gustasson ( reeds ), Roy Campbell ( trumpet ), Joe McPhee ( valve trombone ), Jeb Bishop ( trombone ), Kent Kessler ( bass ), Michael Zerang ( drums ) and Fred Lonberg-Holm ( Lightbox operator ). Recorded July 5, 2000 LIVE in concert at Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music.

Side Two is the Come Sunday Ensemble consisting of Ken Vandermark ( reeds ), Mats Gustasson ( reeds ), Jeb Bishop ( trombone ), Sebi Tramonta ( trombone ), Jim Baker ( keyboards ), Kent Kessler ( bass ), Lou Mallozzi ( turntables, CDs, tapes & microphones ), Tim Mulvenna ( drums ), Michael Zerang ( drums ) and Fred Lonberg-Holm ( Lightbox operator ). Recorded LIVE at the "Chicago Diaries" concert in Munich, Germany on April 2, 2000.

Here's part of Brotzmann's biography from ALLMUSIC.COM:
"Three decades after his death, the legacy of Albert Ayler is plain — a plethora of reed-biting aural contortionists bent on exploiting the saxophone's propensity for making sounds that resemble a human scream. Many such players, unable to play anything resembling a coherent melody, rely instead on the extreme manifestations of the Ayler technique; their playing is more often than not a randomly executed wall of energy and emotion-driven white noise. Peter Brotzmann, on the other hand, is the rare Ayler-influenced saxophonist capable (like Ayler) of producing improvised lines of depth and sensitivity while informing them with enough raw power to make a lesser saxophonist wilt. Brotzmann's playing has little of the arbitrariness one associates with other similar tenor saxophonists like Charles Gayle or Ivo Perelman; Brotzmann possesses a surety of tone and a melodic center characteristic of a focused musical conception. While there's no lack of spontaneity in his music, Brotzmann's concern with motivic and melodic reiteration gives his playing a palpable sense of direction. Indeed, Brotzmann's obsession often serves as a pivot upon which an ensemble turns, making him a consummate team player, in addition to being an affecting soloist."

This record album is BRAND NEW and UNPLAYED. It is number 498 from a limited edition of 500 that is WAAAAAAAAAAAAY out-of-print. I cannot speak for the Munich session but as a Chicagoan, I know attendees of the Old Town School concert who rave to this day.

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