Brotherhood Of Breath: Bremen To Bridgwater auf 2 CDs

This release, Bremen to Bridgewater, contains two CDs of previously unreleased live recordings made in Germany and England during two very different periods of the band’s career. The German radio recordings were made on June 20th, 1971 at Lila Uele, a well known jazz club in Bremen. The English recordings were made at the Bridgewater Arts Center, during two tours that the band made with different lineups in February and November of 1975, and feature some of the very last recordings of trumpeter Mongezi Feza, who died in December of that year. The band’s lineups on these recordings are a veritable who's who of British free jazz, and include Harry Beckett, Marc Charig, Elton Dean, Nick Evans, Harry Miller, Louis Moholo, Mike Osborne, Evan Parker, Dudu Pukwana, Alan Skidmore, Gary Windo and others. In addition to the stunning music, this CD features a 12 page booklet with rare and beautiful photos and detailed liner notes by Francesco Martinelli.

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R.​ Bei der Kellen in Jazzthetik 5/04: "Wie schon auf "Travelling Somehwere" spielen hier die ehemaligen Blue Notes mit den Key Playern der britischen Progressive- Jazz-Szene.​ Diese Kombination klingt, als ob man einer Marching Band irgendeine enthemmende Droge in den Tee gemischt hätte.​ Über simplen, grob festgelegten Themen wird improvosiert was das Zeug hält, gerne auch mal geringfügig aneinander vorbei, aber ungemein lustvoll und von einer Spiellaune, wie man sie nur selten findet.​"