The veteran free jazz saxophonist Peter Brötzmann is playing in Wellington Wednesday evening at 8 pm at Old St. Paul's, 34 Mulgrave St., tickets available from undertheradar.co.nz. Brötzmann may be legendary but he is still tremendously noisy and vital from the more recent tracks I've heard. His Machine Gun from 1968 is still as sharply focused as jazz attacks get. Hope a good number of folks turns out--what better way to fight the increasingly dreary local weather than to hear some ear-blistering old school skronk? Below are a number of great video clips and concerts, to whet yr appetite if you are so inclined....
Peter Brötzmann Trio Club Fasching, Stockholm with: Peter Brötzmann, as; Peter Friis Nielsen, el b; Peeter Uuskyla, dr; September 17, 2001 Recorded by Jan Ström.
PETER BRÖTZMANN - tenorsaxophon TOSHINORI KONDO - trompete WILLIAM PARKER - bass HAMID DRAKE - schlagzeug Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin von 5. November 1995
October 17, 1974 Palace Of Culture And Science, Congress Hall - Jazz Jamboree Warsaw, Poland Peter Brötzmann - tenor saxophone, clarinet, mouthpiece Alexander von Schlippenbach - piano, prepared piano Peter Kowald - contrabass Paul Lovens - drums, percussion
