Piano X 4 (Remastered) Wolfgang Dauner Quartett

• 1 Take the A-Train 03:19
• 2 Waltz for a Young Girl 03:51
• 3 Take the Coltrane 03:27
• 4 Baron Lazor 03:01
• 5 What Is This Thing Called Love 03:29
• 6 Willow Weep for Me 05:37
• 7 Goofin' at Each Other 03:07
• 8 You Do Something to Me 04:37
• 9 Big P 05:04
• Total Runtime 35:32

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Stuttgarter Dauner approaches legendary status as one of Germany’s most inventive pianist-composers. Here the quartet jumps onto a bouncy Take The A Train, riding on to Dauner’s own Waltz for a Young Girl with luscious soprano and piano solos. On Ellington’s Take The Coltrane the band rides out on a modern blues. Swiss pianist Elsie Bianchi was popular throughout the 50’s and 60’s as pianist/pianist. Her Baron Lazor features a relaxed, swinging blues, while she interprets What Is This Thing Called Love with a bluesy flair and some hip quotes. Dieter Reith co-wrote the music for 1972 Munich Olympics and worked with the likes of Stan Getz and Art Farmer. On Willow Weep For Me he rhapsodizes in trio on the melody before injecting a Latin lilt with the addition of timbales and bongos. Rieth’s Goofin’ Each Other displays his prodigious talent: this guy can play! ‘Waldi’ Heidepriem was a force in the South German music scene; with tightly knit arrangements and Impressive trumpet and sax solos on Cole Porter’s You Do Something To Me and Jimmy Heath’s Big P, his quintet shows off the high quality of play in mid-60’s Germany. An enlightening listen to some of the best young German players of the era.

Joki Freund, alto saxophone
Gustl Mayr, tenor saxophone
Eberhard Weber, bass
Karl-Theodor Geier, bass
Peter Witte, bass
Siro Bianchi, bass
Charlie Antolini, drums
Hansjörg Schmidt, drums
Peter Baumeister, drums
Dieter Reith, piano
Elsie Bianchi, piano
Ewald Heidepriem, piano
Wolfgang Dauner, piano
Hermann Mutschler, timbales
Kurt Bong, bongos
Hans Kennell, trumpet

Digitally remastered

Wolfgang Dauner
An intriguing composer and ambitious pianist, German musician Wolfgang Dauner has combined jazz, rock, electronic music, and elements of opera and theater in creating broad-based, ranging works. While at times these compositions may seem too far-reaching, Dauner's best work shows the links between idioms and genres and offers provocative musical and cultural concepts. He studied trumpet, piano, and composition at the Musikhochschule in Stuttgart, then joined Joki Freund's sextet in the early '60s. Dauner appeared at several German festivals, then made his recording debut heading a trio in 1964. It was one of the first European free jazz recording sessions. Dauner led Radio Jazz Group Stuttgart and wrote compositions for them in 1969. He formed the jazz-rock band Et Cetera in 1970, then, with Hans Koller, co-led the Free Sound & Super Brass Big Band. He helped organize the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble in 1975, and began featuring theater, opera, and dance segments along with his performances in '70s and '80s concerts. Dauner's composed music for films, radio, and television broadcasts, and a children's opera. He's recorded for Mood, Columbia, MPS, and ECM, among others, and he has a number of sessions available on CD.

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