Klaus Koenig Seven Things - Dark with Excessive Bright (2023)

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Title: Dark with Excessive Bright
Year Of Release: 2023
Label: TCB The Montreux Jazz Label
Genre: Jazz
Quality: FLAC (tracks) / MP3
Total Time: 53:38
Total Size: 347 / 124 MB
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Tracklist:

01. Little Nick
02. Song of Woe
03. Ballad for Five
04. Gog's Girl
05. Es Ist Wie Es Ist
06. Blues for Marco
07. Dark with Excessive Bright
08. Ciaccona
09. For My Brother

When the foundation „Pro Helvetia“ sent our group Magog to the Ljubljana Festival as the Swiss representative in 1975, we had the pleasure of meeting Art Blakey and His Jazz Messengers there, as well as pianist Cecil Taylor. One can hardly imagine anything more dissimilar than the playing styles of these two jazz greats. On one hand perhaps the leading representative of hard bop at the time, and on the other, probably the most important protagonist of free jazz, if not to say its originator. But these two artists had one thing in common: the structure of their groups.Both included two wind instruments and a trio of piano, bass and drums. Apparently, the two-wind quintet is insensitive to stylistic differences, being robust enough to convey very different musical content. No wonder then that even today, decades after our little excursion, this formation continues to exist as strong as ever – it has become “classic”.