LIVE IM SCHÜTZENHAUS

A top notch live record from a top notch collective. Those fluent in the 70's Euro jazz scene have certainly heard of a number of musicians on this album, in fact it's a laundry list of luminaries. With a roster like this one might think the record a convoluted mess. No way! The best euro jazzers know it's the space between the notes that matters more than the notes themselves. Take the best of Eberhard Weber and add a slight rock bent with more honking horns and you get really the collision of jazz and rock, where it doesn't really melt together like a Return to Forever but the two forces kind of glide next to eachother like Jeremy Steig. I'd recommend this to any seasoned jazz fusion listener and listening to this live show is a great way to spend an evening, especially if you've been gorging on Weber, Kriegel, Dauner, Carr, Mariano, or Manglesdorff records.