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Total Music Meeting 2001 (CD)
CD-only compilation of recordings from FMP's 2001 Total Music Meeting in Berlin released by a/l/l in 2002, featuring a.o. George Lewis, Sven-Åke Johansson, Hans Reichel, Carlos Zingaro, Paul Lovens, Axel Dörner, Günter Sommer, Mark Wastell, Simon H. Fell and Rhodri Davies.
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The problem that besets British jazz - from Ray Noble and Ronnie Scott to Barbara Thompson and Andy Sheppard - is light-music, 'Radio 2' gentility; in Germany it is what Michael Kator (describing the results of the Nazi ban on "hot Jewish music") called "the bane of German jazz, the dreaded 'um-papa' sound". Here, four free music veterans from East Berlin (Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky, alto; Ulrich Gumpert, piano; Connie Bauer, trombone; Günter Sommer, percussion) have decided to ease up, let some 'da…