#Gunter Hampel

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singer Jeanne Lee accompanied by husband Gunter Hampel (and son, Ruomi) - 1972

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Perry Robinson: A Clarinet Virtuoso Who Expanded the Horizons of Jazz

Introduction: Perry Robinson, an avant-garde clarinetist, is often remembered for his unique contributions to jazz and for expanding the musical vocabulary of the clarinet. He defied easy categorization, integrating influences from a wide array of genres, including bebop, free jazz, folk, and world music. Robinson’s career spanned six decades, and he worked with some of the most innovative and…

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Jeanne Lee / Gunter Hampel / Michel Waisvisz / Freddy Gosseye / Sven-Åke Johansson

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Days Of Steam 002: svvimming

(Mix released March 20, 2021) "Lemongrass Mix" is the only descriptor given me when @benjamin_munoz sent this over. Much like how his music feels like mobile sculptures hanging in midair, attached by strings but with no solid ground, left to float, this mix brings together surrealist soundworlds and unclassifiable infinities. Herzog, Kureishi, and Miyazaki meeting at the local. Mutant pop consorts with free jazz, hyperpop blasts dissolve into musique concrète - the bleeps and scattered tones of a mind forming itself, and revealing itself to the world.

svvimming - Birth Of A Tragedy [Unreleased, 2021] Asao Kikuchi - Echo Room [Childisc, 2001] Marion Brown & Gunter Hampel - And Then They Embraced [Improvising Artist, Inc., 1978] Frank Reidy & Eric Allen - Void [Bruton Music, 1978] Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek - What You Should Know About Me [Faitiche, 2016] Silzedrek - Gwen’s Pen [A Colourful Storm, 2020] Coil - Teenage Lightning 2 [Wax Trax!, 1991] Boris Kovač - Caravan Orient [Points East, 1989] Mary Lattimore - Silver Ladders [Ghostly International, 2020] svvimming - Untitled (soup knives) [Unreleased, 2021] Tony Hymas - Pictures Of Departure [Nato, 1988] Berenice - Dry River Bed [Telephone Explosion, 2020] svvimming - Flywheel [Unreleased, 2021] Giuseppe Lelasi - Part 1 (Another Stunt) [Schoolmap, 2008] Timo Lassy & Teppo Mäkynen - Nyanza [We Jazz, 2019] Roxanne Turcotte - Olé-Léa-Léo [Empreintes DIGITALes, 1994] Shushu & Vebe Suprada - Crush [Abîme, 2019] Maxwell Sterling - Synthetic Beach [The Death Of Rave, 2017] Moro - Xxandi [JANUS, 2018]

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Third Ear Band! Tools You Can Trust! Glaas! Diall! David Chesworth! O Yuki Conjugate! Arthur Russell! Nurse With Wound! Jeanne Lee / Gunter Hampel / Michel Waisvisz / Freddy Gosseye / Sven-Åke Johansson! selections from Without Warning compilation! plus a live session from SEA MOSS!

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Alexander Von Schlippenbach — Globe Unity (Corbett Vs. Dempsey)

The Globe Unity Orchestra notched more than a few accolades. It was the first European free jazz big band, and in retrospect, the first improv supergroup. During a history that spanned over 20 years of fairly steady work and a more recent pattern of convening every ten years, it has carried a standard for concerted international effort to improve the world through the transmission of sonic energy. They didn’t call it Globe Unity for nothing; its ranks were a model of multi-national cooperation, and it traveled far from its birthplace in Germany, thrilling and outraging audiences in locales as distant as Chicago and New Delhi.

Composer, pianist and lead Alexander von Shlippenbach didn’t necessarily have all of that in mind when he put the first GUO together. He didn’t even call it that; “Globe Unity” was just the name of the first piece it played. In the mid-1960s, he was part of a circle of musicians who had already been contributing for some time to the loosening and intensifying of jazz’s strictures in Europe. But he was not one who chose to forsake all he had learned in the process. Born in 1938, his post-war education included tutelage in classical composition, as well as a personal affinity for modern jazz. The two side-long pieces on this LP represented attempts to incorporate the sounds of free music into extent jazz and classical orchestral forms. 

When this music was first performed at the 1966 Berlin Jazz Festival, Schlippenbach combined the top German free jazz combos — the Gunter Hampel Quartet, Manfred Schoof Quintet, and Peter Brötzmann Trio. The next month, he recorded “Globe Unity” and “Sun” in Cologne. The personnel list is a heavy who’s who, and some folks might zero in on the names of the two drummers, Jaki (then spelled Jackie) Liebezeit and Mani Neumeier. In times to come, each would shape the rhythmic content of freak-forward German rock music, in Can and Guru Guru respectively. But that’s not what they played here. In concert with Schlippenbach, who played tubular bells, gongs, and both the interior and keys of his piano, and vibraphonist Karl Berger, they provided a multi-hued manifestation of otherness and density. The two bassists added as much seething presence as pulse. Sometimes dramatic, other times exotic (which was not viewed then with the skepticism that it sometimes is now), and only very occasionally swinging, the rhythm section transcended its duties within the big band idiom to contribute immensely to the music’s orchestral qualities. 

The horns, however, are what made this music massive. You don’t need the back cover action shot of players in the studio, confronted by overflowing music stands, to know that their united projection was charted out. The time when the orchestra would take on instant composition at an ensemble-wide scale was still a ways off. But by incorporating the broader tonal and timbral resources of the contemporary avant-garde into organized blocks of sound, they achieved a complex and looming sound which was matched at the time only by Sun Ra’s Arkestra. When individual voices cut through, either as breakaway soloists or connecting joints in the multi-segmented compositions, they functioned both as foci for the energy and agents of structural cohesion. 56 years on, it’s still thrilling. 

Globe Unity has gone in and out of the print since its first release by SABA in 1967, and this its return to the physical realm is welcome. This edition, licensed by the historically astute Corbett Vs. Dempsey imprint, is confined to limited CD and LP editions that recreate the original LP’s gatefold sleeve. It’s gorgeous, but one has to point out that anyone who is likely to buy a CD is also unlikely to be able to read Schlippenbach’s much-reduced liner notes unless they supplement their normal corrective eyewear with a magnifying glass. Old eyes would benefit from either a fold-out insert or an online resource. But music like this is for hearing more than reading, and this reissue sounds gloriously present and alive.

Bill Meyer

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Gunter Hampel & Galaxie Dream Band + Sunny Murray – Journey To The Son...

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Listen to: Scheiße ’71 by Jeanne Lee / Gunter Hampel / Michel Waisvisz / Freddy Gosseye / Sven-Åke Johansson

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Sonny Sharrock, Pharoah Sanders, Gunter Hampel in 1968

RIP Pharoah Sanders

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Marion BROWN

"Le Temps Fou"

(LP. Le Très Jazz Club. 2021 / rec. 1968) [US]

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GUNTER HAMPEL GALAXIE DREAM BAND, NDR-JAZZWORKSHOP 1972

Avec Jeanne Lee, Perry Robinson...

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Gunter Hampel Interviewed

Some years ago, multi-instrumentalist Gunter Hampel explained free jazz to me as basketball (Hampel was a German b-ball Olympian). "If you had never seen a game it would look completely chaotic, with almost no rules at all. It's only when you learn more you see the beauty inside the bedlam." So, I was happy to hear Gunter using the same analogy at 80 years old, in an interview with Raul da Gama. "Anyone who ever had the experience to play basketball, or soccer, or play Jazz music in a team knows how challenging it is to be and play and perform in a group, a team knows what a team spirit is capable of doing with this​ group experience; anyone who is playing professionally or just for fun knows the things you can achieve when the group is happening. ... You're asked to leave your ego at home and dedicate all you've got to make the team enjoying...this together." And, keeping with his age-old, completely open philosophies, when asked about the challenges of playing his style of music, Gunter replied... "To get enough money to do larger projects; or to do more children’s workshops; because they need us most in this computer age.​" By the way, looking at the article's photographs, I can tell that Gunter is still playing ball. I don't know about you, but I know I won't be able to stay thin at 80.

-Fred Seibert

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Recording Gunter Hampel @WKCRFM 

Most people have never heard of composer, multi-instrumentalist*, and former Olympic basketball player Gunter Hampel, or even most of his collaborators. But for several years he was very important to me and a few friends at WKCR-FM. Gunter was the first person to put my name on a record, the person who lit the path that it was possible for a son of pharmacists from Long Island to get into the music business. 

It was either David Reitman or Jim Carroll, college radio colleagues, who introduced me to Gunter when he came up to the station for a live radio shot with vocalist Jeanne Lee and clarinetist Perry Robinson. I set up the microphones and beheld some of the wildest sounds my rock’n’roll ears had every heard. Mesmerized, horrified, and enchanted, I stared and smiled simultaneously. A few hours later, Gunter politely asked if he could have a copy, so I ran it off for our station library and handed over the master. And promptly forgot about it. 

Several months later a package arrived for me with several copies of Spirits and this liner...

It was almost shocking, I couldn’t believe it. “...engineered by Fred Seibert.” My first credit on an actual 12″ vinyl LP. And my name was spelled correctly; well, he was German, after all. I’d dreamed about being in the recording industry but had no idea that it was at all practical. There was no internet guidance in those days and I knew no one who knew anything about anything I was interested in. Honestly, I couldn’t even fathom that I was at a genuine radio station. 

But, simple as pie Gunter made it real for me. From then on there’d be no stopping. 

We got along well, Gunter and Jeanne (they were a couple) were fantastically nice folks. I engineered a few more sessions for Gunter’s groups. It wasn’t easy for as unreconstructed an avant-gardist as he to find inexpensive ways to get recorded, and I was a conduit for free sessions. He continued to come up to the station, once squeezing nine players into a studio that was maybe comfortable for five. I got permission from Mike Mantler and Carla Bley when they were traveling to use their 16-track home studio outside Woodstock NY for one of his dates featuring Anthony Braxton. That was the end of our association, since, innocently, they left the Mantler/Bley kitchen a complete mess with their food; Mike was not happy with me that day. 

It was a great run I had with Gunter Hampel. I loved the music, as challenging as it was (once, Alan Goodman and I went to see one of Gunter’s 15 piece bands in a loft; we were the only two in the audience). I didn’t see him again after the Woodstock session; sadly Jeanne Lee –the mother of his children and a total sweetheart with an amazing set of pipes– passed way too early. 

The man gave me a chance. He gave me hope. Thanks Gunter. 

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*vibraphone, bass clarinet, piano, saxophones, clarinet, flute

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Jeane Lee -- Conspiracy 1974 [Full Album]

01 -- Sundance 02 -- Yeh Come t´be 03 -- Jamaica 04 -- Subway Couple 05 -- The Miracle Is 06 -- Your Ballad 07 -- Angel Chile 08 -- Conspiracy 

 Allan Praskin, clarinet (B2) Perry Robinson, clarinet (B2) Mark Whitecage, alto clarinet (B2) Jack Gregg, bass Steve McCall, drums Gunter Hampel, flute, piano, vibraphone, alto and bass clarinet Sam Rivers, soprano and tenor saxophone, flute Marty Cook, trombone (B2) Ensemble tracks recorded by George Klabin, Sound Ideas Studio, New York, February 1974.

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6/3 おはようございます。Pat Martino / the Visit Cst9015  等更新しました。

Hampton Hawes / All Night Session Vol2 S7546 Miles Davis / Round About Midnight Cl949 Ted Curson / Urge 883910jcy Thelonious Monk / It's Monk's Time cl2184 John Coltrane / Coltrane Jazz 1354 MJT+3 / MJT + 3 lp-621 Ella Fitzgerald / Ella In Rome 835454-1 McCoy Tyner / Cosmos bnla460h2 Komeda / Muzyka Krzysztofa Komedy 2 Z-SXL559 Phil Woods / Musique du Bois mr5037 Lou Donaldson / Alligator Boogaloo bst84263 Edward Vesala / Ode To The Death Of Jazz ECM1413 Gunter Hampel / The 8th Of July 1969 FDS-126 Herbie Hancock / Sextant Kc32212 Pat Martino / the Visit Cst9015

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