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| !:. | . album : Mama Kuku Live . | .:! |
| ::. | artist : Assocciation P.C-Jeremy Steig | .:: |
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| !:. | year : 2008 genre : Jazz | .:! |
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. With these recordings we enter the realm of what has to .
. be called one of the most daring experiences between jazz .
. and rock to come out of Europe during the first half of .
. the 1970s. P.C., of course, stands for Pierre Courbois, .
. the Dutch drummer who in 1961 already established Free .
. Jazz on European ground with his Original Dutch Free Jazz .
. Group. At the end of the decade he founded his own .
. quartet with Jasper van't Hof (keyboard), Peter Krijnen .
. (bass) and Toto Blanke (guitar) who had just given up his .
. profession as an architect. Krijnen was soon replaced by .
. Siggi Busch and after the recording of two LPs for MPS .
. Joachim Kⁿhn came in for van't Hof. They heard flutist .
. Jeremy Steig for the first time during the 1972 Jazz Now! .
. festival in Munich and liked his trips on the flute very .
. much. At that time Steig was already a successful .
. recording artist for Verve and Blue Note, playing with .
. Bill Evans and pioneering jazz rock in the States. .
. Once more it was Joachim Ernst Berendt who came up with .
. the idea to bring Jeremy and the Association together in .
. front of a live audience. As Courbois recalls the tour .
. began in somewhat adventurous circumstances. Due to a .
. late arrival of his plane Steig didn't have a chance to .
. rehearse the material with the band and so they took the .
. stage without exactly knowing what was going to happen. .
. But all of them being experienced in free jazz they made .
. a virtue out of necessity - very much to Steig's .
. amazement who remarked that he couldn't believe how it's .
. possible to swing like this without any obvious rhythm! .
. The two sessions captured here took place in the Southern .
. German city of Freiburg and Lausanne in the Swiss .
. Romande. .
. Having finished the tour in the occident Association P.C. .
. embarked for an All-Asian parcours that lead them from .
. Teheran and Kabul to Delhi, Bangkok, Hongkong and Kyoto - .
. as ambassadors of a sound which at that time was not .
. undisputed amongst the more conservative jazz critics, .
. but nevertheless rapidly gained cult status among the .
. open-minded audience. Why did they create such a craze? .
. Listening to that session you will immediately get it. .
. Siggi Busch's introduction leads into a jumping and .
. pumping groove, on which Toto Blanke and Pierre Courbois .
. explore themselves in a free fancy way before Steig joins .
. them on a blues rock pattern. Steig and Kⁿhn's Fender .
. Rhodes then enjoy an almost lyrical intimacy. "Dr. .
. Hofmann" is in a haunting and spine-chilling mood, .
. preparing for the anarchic "Ecnelis" which indeed - as .
. Courbois has confirmed - is a backwards played version of .
. his piece "Silence". It gives way for Steig's moment of .
. glory, a splendid solo on the bass flute. We leave it to .
. you to discover the countless shades of "Lausanne" .
. celebrating collective improvisation at its best. .
. Even Courbois can't remember today why the LP was given .
. the title "Mama Kuku" which, by the way, means "Mother .
. Chicken" in Swahili. Make up your own theory about that - .
. it just adds to the mystic flair of this amazing band. .
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