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·       MICHAL URBANIAK / TOMASZ STANKO / ATTILA ZOLLER - WE’LL REMEMBER KOMEDA - ORIGINAL GERMAN PRESSING -VERY RARE ORIGINAL 1973 GERMAN MPS/BASF LP 21-21657-8

 

·       ORIGINAL GERMAN PRESSING

 

·       ORIGINAL RED BASF LABEL WITH BLACK PRINT AND WHITE LOGO

 

·       THE ALBUM INCLUDES ORIGINAL SINGLE PAGE INSERT

 

THIS ITEM COMES FROM THE INCREDIBLE, SINGLE-OWNER COLLECTION WE ACQUIRED A WHILE AGO, IN WHICH ITEMS ORIGINALLY BOUGHT BY THE OWNER FROM THE MID-1970s to THE MID-2010s WERE KEPT STILL SEALED IN A NEAR-LABORATORY, TIME-CAPSULE CONDITIONS AND IN PRACTICALLY CLIMATE- AND HUMIDITY- CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT.  CONDITIONS OF SOME OF THESE ITEMS RANGE FROM IMPECCABLE TO TRULY UNBELIEVABLE. SOME OF THESE BEAUTIFUL MUSEUM PIECES LOOKED SO PERFECT THAT WE HAD TO REINSPECT AND RE-EXAMINE THEM A FEW TIMES TO MAKE SURE THEY OUR EYES ARE NOT DECEIVING US.

 

·       THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST GERMAN PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

 

·       ORIGINAL, THIN CARDBOARD COVER (EUROPEAN STYLE)

 

·       ORIGINAL UNIPAK-STYLE COVER (ONE SIDE OF THE GATEFOLD OPENS, THE OTHER ONE IS A SINGLE-PLY CARDBOARD)

 

·       ORIGINAL LAMINATED COVER

 

·       CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS

 

·       MACHINE-STAMPED MATRIX NUMBER IN TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) OF THE RECORD.

 

·       MATRIX NUMBER IN TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) ENDS WITH '-S1/-S2'.  ON SOME LABELS,  SUFFIX '–1' DENOTES THE VERY FIRST, ORIGINAL PRESSING)

 

·       THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

 

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Polish violinist, saxophonist and composer Michal Urbaniak played a major role in the development of jazz fusion in the 1970s and 80s. While working in Scandinavia in the 1960’s he met his future wife, Polish singer Urszula Dudziak and formed the foundation of what would later become the group that would stamp its imprint on the jazz world, Michal Urbaniak’s Fusion. Urbaniak moved to New York in 1973. His popularity on the NY scene garnered him a contract with Columbia records and concerts at the Village Vanguard and Carnegie Hall. Blending music from his Polish and European roots with the funk and fusion of the Big Apple impelled American and international jazz musicians to experiment with mixing various ethnic musical forms with jazz.

 

This album is a remembrance of Polish composer/pianist Krysztof Komeda’s music performed by fellow musicians who knew and loved him. Komeda's album Astigmatic (1965) was considered a turning point in European jazz; critic Stuart Nicholson stated it “marked a shift away from the dominant American approach with the emergence of a specific European aesthetic." Yet Komeda is best known for his work in film. He wrote over 70 film scores, including the music for fellow Pole Roman Polanski’s classic films Knife in the Water, Cul de Sac, and Rosemary’s Baby. Five of the players here are jazz legends in their home country of Poland; Michal Urbaniak as well as internationally renowned trumpeter Tomasz Stanko and bassist Roman Dylag worked with Komeda; Urszula Dudziak was the voice in Urbaniak’s famed groups, and Zbigniew Seifert was one of the acknowledged giants of the violin. Choral and Repetition alternates between a dirge-like refrain and frantic modal improvisation, with blistering solos by trumpeter Stanko and Urbaniak on tenor and soprano. Hungarian guitar great Attila Zoller caresses the beautiful ballad No Lovesong at all, whereas Crazy Girl begins in a phantasmagoria of sounds before settling into a swinging beautifully articulated ¾ that descends into a psychic battle between Seifert and Urbaniak. Oh My Sweet European Home consists of a medley of Komeda compositions, with Zoller featured on Canzone For Warschau, Sieverts taking on Witches, Drudziak scatting freely over The Trumpet Player is Innocent, and taking the melody on the hauntingly beautiful Dirge for Europe. Kattorna has a mysterious Mid-Eastern feel with Stanko’s emotive solo, and Urbaniak crying out on tenor sax. Rosemary’s Baby reverberates with a satanic dark angst. A classic album.

 

(EXCERPT FROM AN ANONYMOUS ONLINE REVIEW)

 

Track list

 

A1         Choral And Repetition         9:21

A2         No Love Song At All   2:39

A3         Crazy Girl, From "The Knife In The Water"         7:11

Oh My Sweet European Home, Medley     (10:50)

B1a       Canzone For Warschau

B1b       Witches

B1c        The Trumpet Player Is Innocent

B1d       Dirge For Europe

B2         Kattorna    7:52

B3         Rosemary's Baby         3:30

 

Recorded At – Tonstudio Walldorf

 

Alto Saxophone – Zbigniew Seifert (tracks: A1, B1c, B2)

Bass – Roman Dylag

Composed By – Krzysztof Komeda

Cover, Design – Heinz Bähr

Drums – Peter Giger

Electric Violin– Michal Urbaniak (tracks: B1b, B1c, B3)

Engineer – Torsten Wintermeier

Ensemble – Attila Zoller Quartet (tracks: A2, B1a)

Guitar – Attila Zoller (tracks: A2, A3, B1a, B2)

Liner  – Joachim E. Berendt*

Liner  [Translated By] – Clay Sherman

Percussion – Armen Halburian (tracks: A2, A3, B1a, B2), Urszula Dudziak

Photography By – Hans Harzheim

Piano – Tomasz Stanko (tracks: B1d)

Soprano Saxophone – Michal Urbaniak (tracks: A1)

Tenor Saxophone – Michal Urbaniak (tracks: A1, B2)

Trumpet – Tomasz Stanko*

Violin – Michal Urbaniak (tracks: A3, B1d), Zbigniew Seifert (tracks: A1, A3, B1b, B1d, B3)

Vocals – Urszula Dudziak (tracks: A1, A3, B1c, B1d, B3)

 

Recorded on June 22 & 23, 1972 at Walldorf Tonstudio, Walldorf, Hessen, Germany.

 

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·                               CONDITION:

 

·                               THE RECORD:

 

(IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded!; we  grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight)

 

(a)          WE GRADE THE VINYL AS STRONG NEAR MINT. The original luster is very much intact, and the vinyl shines and sparkles almost like new.

 

(b)            The record comes in a poly-lined inner sleeve, which has - apparently with success - shielded the vinyl from the harmful impact of elements over many years!

 

(c)             The album comes with the original single-page insert

 

(d)            The record is pressed on a beautiful, thick, inflexible vinyl, which was usually used for the first or very early pressings. Usually, the sound on such thick vinyl pressings is full-bodied, vivid, and even dramatic. Do not expect to obtain such a majestic analog sound from a digital recording!

 

(e)           Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording!!!

 

 

·       COVER (THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, LAMINATED, GLOSSY COVER):

 

THE COVER IS NICE --- ABOUT EXCELLENT OR VERY GOOD++ (VG++).

 

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

 

-         Cover has JUST A HINT of ring wear (nothing significant); On the scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the least, and  10 being the most severe), we assess the severity of ring wear as 1   (front side) and 2 (back side).

 

-         Minor shelf wear noted on the top and bottom seams (nothing significant)

 

-        Cover has a light "wrinkle" (crease)  in one of the corners.

 

-        Cover has a few tiny wrinkles along the spine  (nothing significant)

 

 

NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE  COVER

 

 

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