Nonet SHQ & Woodwinds (Remastered) Karel Velebny

• 1 Über Stock und Stein 04:54
• 2 In the Beginning Dark 04:40
• 3 One, Two, Three ... Five 04:50
• 4 Blowing into My Dog's Brain 04:27
• 5 Nude 04:24
• 6 Amaze and Conjure 04:32
• 7 Song of the One-Armed Man 06:14
• 8 The Summer's Strange End 04:06
• Total Runtime 38:07

Info for Nonet SHQ & Woodwinds (Remastered)

Czech multi-instrumentalist-composer Karel Velebny was a major force in the emergence of Czechoslovakia onto the international jazz scene in the 1960’s. Appearances at the Berlin Jazz Days in 1964 and subsequent tours throughout Western Europe led to his group’s (HSQ) breakthrough. Here the group is augmented by four woodwinds. All the tunes are by group members. Über Stock Und Stein is a sophisticated bop-influenced piece. The somber refrain of In The Beginning Dark is lit up with a touch of anarchic free-play. There is a puzzling rhythmic feel to One Two three…Five, but actually it’s a blues in 6/4. Blowing Into My Dog’s Brain meanders over a bass pedal point before moving into a swinging medium-up jaunt. Nude tastes of Latin in the melody before merging into straight-ahead swing. Amaze and Conjure is has a sense of humor; a “Girl from Ipanema” refrain keeps popping up, and a nonsense verse sung in the middle accompanies a piano solo. Song of the One-Armed Man migrates between form and freedom with dissonance at its core. The Summer’s Strange End, a blues with layered rhythms, features a heated solo by flutist Jiri Stivin. Heavily influenced by American jazz and flavored by Czechoslovakian sensibility, these are sophisticated jazz compositions that swing, take chances, and do what jazz does best: surprise!

Karel Velebny, vibraphone, bass
Pavel Zedník, bassoon
Miroslav Krysl, bass clarinet
Josef Vejvoda, drums
SHQ Ensemble
Jiri Stivín, flute
Milos Petr, French Horn
Vlastimil Kála, oboe
Ludek Svábensky, piano

Recorded February 20, 1968 at SABA-Tonstudio, Villingen, Germany
Engineered and recorded by Rolf Donner
Produced by Willi Fruth

Digitally remastered

No biography found.

This album contains no booklet.