Dudek/Niebergall/Vesala

Dudek/Niebergall/Vesala: Open

by Jochem van Dijk
January 17, 2005

As part of its Unheard Music Series, Atavistic has reissued Open , a free improv recording from 1977 made in Berlin by European improvisers Gerd Dudek (reeds), Bushi Niebergall (bass) and Edward Vesala (drums). This is a first-time-on-CD reissue, with no hope of a reunion: Niebergall, a mainstay on the Euro-scene of the seventies, seems to have disappeared into oblivion to the extent that his death “somewhere" in the '80s is his only known personal detail. Vesala passed away in ...