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Globe Unity Orchestra & the Choir of the NDR-Broadcast: Hamburg '74

Read "Hamburg '74" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


Alexander von Schlippenbach wrote the first tune on this record as a radio project for the NDR Jazz Workshop in 1974. From his imagination sprung a conjunction of classical music and of jazz (as he and the Globe Unity Orchestra fermented it). It would have been so easy to let the two entwine and create a hybrid, but given the impetus and the direction the orchestra takes, that would be all too facile an approach. While they bring into play ...

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Globe Unity 67 & 70: Alexander Von Schlippenbach

Read "Alexander Von Schlippenbach" reviewed by Andrey Henkin


Free jazz recordings have been the subjects of more scrutiny than perhaps any other kind of music. Hailed effusively as visionary and cosmic or derided thoroughly as shamelessly indulgent and noisy. While much free jazz can be ineffective, it removes one variable from the equation of recording: material. Sessions rooted in basic improvisatory frameworks rather than strict song structures allow what is important in jazz to be fully responsible: the musicians.

Perhaps then, it is best, despite being tedious, to ...

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Misterioso Apropos of Creative Music Announces Major Essay on the 40th Anniversary Concert of the Globe Unity Orchestra + New Book Reviews

Misterioso Apropos of Creative Music Announces Major Essay on the 40th Anniversary Concert of the Globe Unity Orchestra + New Book Reviews

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services

Misterioso Apropos of Creative Music announces: 1. A major essay on the 40th Anniversary Concert of the Globe Unity Orchestra at the Berlin Jazz Festival 2006. Globe Unity Orchestra's performance at the Berlin Jazz Festival in 1966 was the first orchestral performance of free jazz, and caused an enormous controversy. With quotes from founding member Manfred Schoof and long-time member, percussionist Paul Lovens. 2. New book reviews. They can be viewed at our website. Music and the Creative Spirit

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Hamburg '74

Atavistic Records
2004

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Alexander Von...

Atavistic Records
2001

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