Bringing together two acclaimed German improvisers who met in Nuremberg in 1982 as teens--reedist Rudi Mahall and drummer/vibraphonist Michael Griener, "bumbling" around to learn free jazz together, heard now 40 years later as authoritative players recording as a duo in 2020 & 21 in Kotzlin and Berlin for eight energetically creative and buoyantly upbeat dialogs.
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Rudi Mahall-bass clarinet, clarinet, baritone saxophone
Michael Griener-drums, vibraphone
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First pressing - 500 copies on black vinyl.
Label: Astral Spirits
Catalog ID: AS204LP
Squidco Product Code: 32358
Format: LP
Condition: New
Released: 2022
Country: USA
Packaging: LP
All tracks recorded January 7th, 2021, in Kotzlin, except track 5 recorded December 21st, 2020 in Berlin, Germany, and track 8 recorded February 13th, 2021 in Berlin, Germany.
"Dry-sober:
The whole thing is not new. Neither the line-up nor the methodology according to which the music on this record is organized.
The two have known each other for 40 years, then as now they just met and started playing, without prior arrangements, earlier out of ignorance, today out of the opposite: the results are amazingly similar.
Only: the recordings from the last 40 years, made privately with the tape recorder or later by other means, have never been published.
No one has ever come up with the idea.
To change that: now the latest, fresh on the turntable.
Humidly-romantic:
For lack of friends and out of enthusiasm for jazz, fourteen-year-old Michael Griener and fifteen-year-old Rudi Mahall met in Nuremberg in 1982 as autograph hunters at a concert and decided: We can do that too!
Griener's father had a pub, above it was a brothel, and down in the basement storage room was the rehearsal room.
There the two of them bumbled around; the experts call this "free improvisation".
This resulted in countless world-changing musical projects, all highly praised (self-praise stinks!).
Now the first and only the best: Griener & Mahall pure.
We have awarded ourselves the Jazz Prize."-
First pressing - 500 copies on black vinyl.
Artist Biographies
• Show Bio for Rudi Mahall "Rudi Mahall (born 1966 in Nürnberg, Germany) is a contemporary jazz bass clarinetist. While studying classical clarinet, Mahall shifted towards contemporary music, improvisation and jazz. He is, or was a member of following bands: Avantgardeband Die Hartmann 8, Der Rote Bereich (initially comprehending Frank Möbus, Marty Cook, Jim Black und Henning Sievert), the Trio Tiefe töne für Augen und Ohren (with Sievert and Bill Elgart), Carlos Bicas Azul and Die Enttäuschung (amongst others with Axel Dörner, Jan Roder). He carried out several projects and published CDs with Aki Takase, about the work of Eric Dolphy and others. Mahall participated to Alexander von Schlippenbach's recording of the complete works of Thelonious Monk, published by a prestigious Swiss label, and he is a member of the Globe Unity Orchestra. Moreover, he performed with Conny Bauer, Lee Konitz, Barry Guy, Karl Berger, Paul Lovens, Sven-Åke Johansson, Radu Malfatti, Ed Schuller, Ray Anderson, Kenny Wheeler, Hannes Bauer and many others. Mahall performed at the Free Music Festival Jazz à Mulhouse in 2008, at the Moers Festival, the JazzFest Berlin, the Leverkusener Jazztage and jazz festivals in New York City, Amsterdam, München, Würzburg, Nürnberg, and he toured in Portugal, southern and eastern Africa." ^ Hide Bio for Rudi Mahall • Show Bio for Michael Griener "Michael Griener, born in Nuremberg, Germany in 1968, began playing drums in 1982, lives in Berlin since 1994. Under the influence of the HOHE-UFER-concerts initiated by Günter Christmann he became involved early on in the various forms of Jazztradition, Free Improvisation and New Music, which led to a longer collaboration with Christmann in his Vario-projects (a.o. C.I.M.-Festival Den Haag 1990, Moers-Festival 1992, Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik1993). He has worked frequently with dancers, actors and poets (most recently in a project on Paul Celan with German writer Oskar Ansull). His duo KIMMO ELOMAA with electronic wizard jayrope received a grant by the city of Berlin in 2002 Received the 1. price as "most creative soloist" at the "New German Jazz Award" in 2006 His current projects include a.o.: Uli Gumpert Quartet, TGW (Thieke-Griener-Weber), a Duo with Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky, Lacy Pool, Squakk and Carl-Ludwig Hübsch' Primordial Soup Michael Griener teaches jazz drumming at the University for Music "Carl Maria v. Weber" in Dresden and jazz-history and rhythm at the Jazzschule Berlin." ^ Hide Bio for Michael Griener
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Track Listing:
SIDE A
1. Und so nahm die Sache ihren Lauf 5:00
2. Minuten spater... 5:00
3. Nach entsprechenden 4:32
4. Kurz darauf im Gefangnis...Lass dir mal in die Augen schaun 5:08
SIDE B
1. Schon fruh am nachsten Morgen... 5:16
2. Derweil... 5:23
3. Einige Tage spater im Polizeiprasidium... 3:20
4. Viele Tassen Beruhigungstee spater... 3:15
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