Das Chicagoer Label International Anthem Recording Company zählt mit seinen Veröffentlichungen nach wie vor zu den spannendsten, wenn es um Jazz & More mit Message geht. Hier eine würdigende Bestandsaufnahme anhand der letzten Releases.

…on new CDs from Elisbeth Flunger, Manon-Liu Winter/Klaus Hollinetz and Maria Frodl.

Remember 1985: In the 2000’s a lot of art forms have been facing a liftingin order to hide the fact that they weren’t anything esle but a revivalism and a merchandise. To return is not somthing you partcularly want to do unless you have exciting places to depart to.

Jason Kahn/Tetuzi Akiyama: »Till We Meet Again« (For4Ears 1645)So here we are among Jason Kahn’s music, his label Cut and the other very well known recording company For4Ears. It is all based in Switzerland but if we follow the personal paths we will very soon find three basic routes leading there. The one from Berlin;…

Mercen Dede
»Breath«
Doublemoon 033

Kamilya Jubran/Werner Hasler
»Wameed«
Unit Records 4161

Five new releases from the Grand Label of Brighton, that I’ve somehow failed to review in time. Let’s try to rescue the clock’s damage, but when it‘ good it remains there so: # 1 – AMANDINE, »Waiting For The Light To find Us« ( CD Fat053). Swedish pop with angles and some soft sugar-acid colours…

Gold showers on Verve as well. LESTER YOUNG wit OSCAR PETERSON TRIO is the compiled original double 10“ plus a crazy track (# 13!) where Lester sings himself (or let’s say hums better). Barney Kessel on Guitar (his best years) and what will you do if Ray Brown wasn’t on bass? Following is: Oscar Peterson…

»Octoscope Music« (Loewenhertz 012/Extraplatte) by HANNES ENZLBERGER is a live recording of a pretty particular band. Well, just looking at three trumpets, two drums and a double bass is something that can remind you of Herb Robertson or earlier Tim Berne associations. The music is as much shaped and designed as played live I should…

In the past, I haven’t particularly been excited at all by Onkyo Music (sort of a post Fluxus musical movement that takes place in Tokyo around the club Off Site and that has been linked to the like of Polwechsel, Radu Malfatti and other »reductionists«, since). But this time I decided I ought to give…