Leszek Żądło Quartet - Live in Hamburg '75 (2024)

The For Tune Records catalogue is expanding as part of a series restoring the memory of the greatest achievements of Polish jazz and presenting unknown and first published recordings. The plethora of Polish jazz legends and their recordings (mainly concerts) in the library of the Oficina is impressive: Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski, Adam Makowicz, Michał Urbaniak, Kazimierz Jonkisz, Sławomir Kulpowicz. The next album-after the well-received comedic "exile from Paradise" and " Miss B. – - An unknown recording of the concert (half a century ago !) presents Leszek sting.

The hero of the concert "Live in Hamburg'75" is saxophonist Leszek Żadło and his excellent, energetic quartet ( pianist Larry Porter, double bassist Günter Lenz and drummer Joe Nay). This is a concert recording by the International Quartet Leszek Żadło, recorded by Norddeutscher Rundfunk during the first New Jazz Festival in Hamburg, in June 1975. Two legendary clubs — Fabrik and Onkel Pó's Carnegie Hall-for four concert evenings thundered a phenomenal avant-garde and mood, which became the characteristic style of modern, avant-garde jazz of the 70s. The German festival hid from the stars of jazz, the epigones of the European avant-garde, free-jazz and the so-called scandinavian touch of jazz that was already being built. The artistic guide and mentor of the event was the American avant-garde artist Anthony Braxton, who brought together musicians such as Terje Rypdal, Dave Liebman, Eberhard Weber, Jan Garbarek, Palle Danielsson, Bobo Stenson, Albert Mangelsdorff, Joachim Kühn, Tomasz Stańko trio with Adam Makowicz and Czesław Bartkowski for the festival concept. Zbigniew Seifert and Janusz Stefański also played in international squads. In the cult club Onkel Pó's Carnegie Hall (June 8, 1975) an exciting, total, uncompromising and full of new, expressive music concert was presented by Leszek Żadło Quartet. The Polish saxophonist was fascinated by John Coltrane's style at the time and was perhaps the most "coltrane" European jazz musician and an important musician invited to participate in the first edition of such a significant festival. The quartet played the two-part composition of the Leader "Very Little Green Man", which was not only a tribute to John Coltrane, but above all — a manifesto of the Polish artist.