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New Jazz Festival Balver HÖhle 74-75 (11cd)
'NEW JAZZ 1974 & 1975' - This 11-disc box set features gems from the New Jazz scenes in Europe and the USA during the period 1974-1975. In total you get 13 hours of music, recorded live inside the cave at Balve, West Germany. A 32-page booklet with concert pictures, posters, flyers and newspaper clippings (in German and English) is included. The CD's contain complete performances and improvisations by Gary Burton, Peter Brötzmann, Jasper van 't Hof, John Surman, Pat Metheny and many others! CD 1 (73 min): Contact Trio + Brötzmann/van Hove/Bennink CD 2 (65 min): Jasper van't Hof/Pork Pie CD 3 (70 min): SOS (Surman/Osborne/Skidmore) CD 4 (75 min): Dieter Scherf Trio + Franz Koglmann Quintet/ Steve Lacy Quintet CD 5 (78 min): Misha Mengelberg/Han Bennink Duo + Jazzcrew Stuttgart CD 6 (67 min): Jazzcrew Stuttgart + Polish Jazz Summit CD 7 (75 min): Gary Burton Quintet CD 8 (77 min): Jan Wallgren Orkester + Jiri Stivin/Rudolf Dasek/System Tandem CD 9 (71 min): Jiri Stivin/Rudolf Dasek/System Tandem + Krzysztof Zgraja/Barre Phillips Duo CD 10 (79 min): Krzysztof Zgraja/Barre Phillips Duo + Brom Gustav Big Band CD 11 (39 min): Brom Gustav Big Band + Eero Koivistonen Quintet + Emil Viklicky Trio