In anticipation of the Peter Brötzmann Quartet's concert on Monday May 16th, 2016 at the Echoplex, we are bringing you a show dedicated to his music, plus tastes from the stellar quartet he's bringing to town. Here's the playlist:
Peter Brötzmann solo - No.7, from 14 Love Poems (FMP, 1994)
Peter Brötzmann 4tet with Peter Kowald/ Gerd Panzer/ Horst Prehn - Lila Eule No. 1, from The Inexplicable Flyswatter (Atavistic, 1965)
Peter Brötzmann/ Fred van Hove/ Han Bennink/ Albert Mangelsdorf - Boogie für Fred, from Outspan No. 1 (FMP. 1974)
Peter Brötzmann/ Hamid Drake/ Kent Kessler - Crest of the Wave (excerpt), from Live at the Empty Bottle (Okkadisk, 1998)
Manfred Schulze Bläser Quintet - Chorale für Dr. Martin Luther King, from Viertens (FMP,1986) - [part of a tribute to ascended trombonist Johannes Bauer]
Die Like a Dog (Peter Brötzmann/ Toshinori Kondo/ William Parker/ Hamid Drake) - No. 1, from Fragments of Music, Life & Death of Albert Ayler (FMP, 1993)
Peter Brötzmann/ Manfred Schoof/ Jay Oliver/ Willi Kellers - Certainly, from A State of Undress (FMP, 1989)
Peter Brötzmann/ Alex von Schlippenbach/ Han Bennink/ Michel Pilz/ Paul Rutherford/ J. B. Neibergall - Into the Staggerin, from The Living Music (FMP, 1969)
John Edwards solo - Tunnel, from Volume (Psi, 2008)
Steve Noble/ Martin Küchen/ Johann Berthling - Night in Europe (Again), from Night in Europe (No Business Records, 2014)
Peter Brötzmann solo - Fair Wind Is Blowing From The Sea, from Nothing To Say: A Suite of Breathless Motion for Oscar Wilde (FMP, 1994)
Peter Brötzmann solo - The Stalions Of Blood, from No Nothing (FMP, 1990)