Modern mainstream
- Label
- Indigo Records 1003 CD, 1996
- Recorded
- 1996, 25/26 May and 15 June
- Sound engineering
- Tim Birkner, Bernd Pick
15,– € incl. VAT, postage and packing
Tracks
- Neujahrslied
- Don Quijote und die Warteschlangen
- Der Himmel über Pingsdorf
- Trentadue Panini (Duo)
- Yussufs Traum
- Strange Fruit (Billie Holiday)
- Eleanor Rigby (Lennon/McCartney, Duo)
- Ulysses 95
- Nun laube, Lindlein, laube (Paul Hindemith)
To listen to: Neujahrslied, Don Quijote und die Warteschlangen, Der Himmel über Pingsdorf, Yussufs Traum and Ulysses 95
Line-up
- Bruno Leicht tp
- Stefan Döring as, bcl
- Matthias Petzold ts, ss, cl, fl, cello
- Dietmar Kruse tb
- Joachim Petzold tb, 4 + 7
- Jürgen Friedrich p
- Gregor Lindemann bass
- Ralf Schläger dr
About the music:
Ulysses – Matthias Petzold places this great figure of Greek mythology at the head of his new CD as a kind of “patron saint”. Setting out, wandering, shipwreck, searching, homecoming … “The figure of Odysseus has always fascinated me. His futile wanderings, his defeats, but also his longings and hopes. That makes him for me an image of my work as a jazz musician, and in a way of human life as such.” If the first CD, ‘Lifelines’, was about getting to know the material and trying out basic musical ideas, a point has now been reached where music becomes possible that speaks to you directly – music of great vitality and warmth, music that tells stories …
It is surely no coincidence that the first and last pieces on the CD refer metaphorically to the beginning and the end of life: ‘Neujahrslied’ (New Year’s Song) – the start of the new year, everything is possible, a feeling of being newborn, a piece with an open and confident atmosphere; and on the other side ‘Nun laube, Lindlein, laube’ – a melancholy song of autumn, farewell and death. In between, attempts to capture different aspects of life: ‘Ulysses 95’ – a constant alternation between phases of setting out, driving and groove-based, and moments of rest that leave room for free playing; ‘Don Quijote und die Warteschlangen’ (Don Quixote and the Queues) – the outsider’s fight against the windmills, staged with wit and vitality even in defeat; ‘Strange Fruit’ – Billie Holiday’s indictment of the racism of the 1930s, as an expression of grief at destruction and violence … And so pieces come about that point beyond the specific situation and strike the listener as symbols …
(from the CD booklet notes by Christina Koblitz)
Press
“Matthias Petzold continues modern mainstream traditions in an individual and assured way … What stands out above all is the confidently handled variety of moods, ranging from humorous Don Quixotery to an elegiac Chicago adaptation. All in all an imaginative, lovingly conceived CD that you really must hear.”
Jazzpodium
“… with his septet he shows a great variety of ways of playing. He works folk songs, circus music, African music and pop songs into his performance. The main element, however, is jazz, which he knows how to shape in a happy synthesis of tradition and modernity.”
Das Rohrblatt
“It is remarkable how much cohesion the septet nonetheless achieves. If Petzold manages to keep up his concept, he should soon be counted among the most noteworthy German musicians.”
Der Jazzfreund
“With his clear lines the young leader keeps sounding refreshingly different from his peers – after all, he has learned to wait and to take his time …”
Rondo