Volker Kriegel: Mainz Studio Recordings (1963-1969) [Remastered Extended Version] Volker Kriegel

• 1 Django 06:18
• 2 Tabu 07:16
• 3 Israel 06:05
• 4 Blue Moon 06:47
• 5 Polka Dots and Moonbeams 06:45
• 6 Blues for Django 06:10
• 7 St. Louis Blues 02:59
• 8 Rhythm-A-Ning 03:06
• 9 Les enfants š'ennuient le dimanche 03:53
• 10 Autumn Leaves 07:16
• 11 Three Seconds 04:17
• 12 Tea and Rum 02:36
• 13 Morandi 04:44
• 14 Don't Wait 02:55
• 15 Half and Half 05:20
• 16 Na Na Imboro 04:54
• 17 Nyleve 03:23
• 18 Teamwork 03:06
• 19 Ten O'Clock Blues 04:45
• 20 Octopus 04:33
• 21 Connie's Blues 08:27
• 22 Viande 04:41
• 23 Traffic Jam 04:04
• 24 Little Pear 04:47
• 25 Norwegian Wood 04:42
• 26 Five by Four 04:33
• 27 Royal Harp 03:44
• 28 Soul Eggs 03:20
• 29 Cry It Out 05:50
• 30 Noisy Silence, Gentle Noise 06:31
• 31 Somewhat, Somewhere, Somehow 05:01
• 32 Sitting on My Knees 03:23
• 33 Teaming Up 09:32
• 34 Slums on Wheels 04:26
• 35 I'm on My Way 04:10
• 36 Blue Flower 03:52
• 37 Pluns 02:56
• 38 Mother People 06:40
• Total Runtime 03:07:47

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When the Darmstadt teenager Volker Kriegel (1943-2003) officially debuted his first chords in the late 1950s, the guitar was still an outsider instrument in jazz. It could boast a few luminaries, but actually everything was still open when, in 1963 and 1964, the autodidact from Hessen won first prizes as guitarist and soloist at the amateur jazz festival in Düsseldorf. The debut recordings in 1963, which Südwestfunk (SWF) recorded with the nineteen-year-old guitarist in trio at the Deutschhaus in Mainz, and the 1969 studio sessions in the Kammersaal Studio, are worlds apart. For one thing, the guitar itself had carved out a career. On top of this, Kriegel had gained in self-confidence. But above all, he had found a counterpart in Claudio Szenkar, who opened up perspectives not only in terms of communication and composition but also through Kriegel’s own instrument. The combination of vibraphone and guitar was then still fairly new. In 1968, Kriegel decided to make music his main profession. Thanks to "With A Little Help from My Friends" and an appearance at the German Jazz Festival in Frankfurt, he achieved the breakthrough into public recognition. Together with the vibraphonist Dave Pike, the bassist Hans Rettenbacher and the drummer Peter Baumeister, he founded the Dave Pike Set, which became for four years his artistic center and a beacon combo of European jazz rock. And for the SWF (Südwestfunk, today SWR) he went twice into the sound studio. With the exceptions of The Beatles’s anthem "Norwegian Wood" and "Mother People" by the young guitar berserker Frank Zappa, hardly any pieces by other musicians are still to be heard in these recordings.

Volker Kriegel, guitar
Dieter Von Goetze, bass
Hans Rettenbacher, bass
Helmut Kampe, bass
Reinhard Knieper, bass
Dieter Matschoss, drums
Peter Baumeister, drums
Ralf Hübner, drums
Emil Mangelsdorff, flute
Gustl Mayer, tenor saxophone
Fritz Hartschuh, vibraphone
Claudio Szenkar, vibraphone, congas, percussion

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