muzycy:
Joe Fiedler - trombone
John Hebert - bass
Mark Ferber - drums

Editor's info:
It is difficult to imagine, given his reputation as one of the most important jazz trombonists of the past thirty or forty years, that nobody has recorded a tribute album of the tunes of the great German jazz trombonist, Albert Mangelsdorff.
That is, until now.
Lest anyone have slept during the past decades of modern jazz, Albert Mangelsdorff just happens to be the leading European jazz trombonist tracing all the way back to the 1960s.
This ambitious - some might call it audacious - project from New York-based trombonist Joe Fiedler directly confronts several of the better known of these tricky and difficult tunes, and puts his individual stamp on each one.
Fiedler is the perfect person to perform the Mangelsdorff book. As a trombonist, and an extraordinary one, Fiedler exploits Mangelsdorff's sophisticated, complex writing, which focuses on the expansive possibilities of the horn. Fiedler has a total command of the technique of multi-phonics (the ability to play and sing a note simultaneously, leading to the illusion of self-harmonizing) that characterizes much of Mangelsdorff's work, and like his German role model, Fiedler is a brilliant soloist in his own right, something that comes through clearly on these tracks. Too, the younger trombonist understands that the best form of flattery comes not from aping but from reinterpreting, something Fiedler is careful to do here. Finally, Fiedler studied the compositions thoroughly, and practiced extensively to meet the challenges posed by them, including jumping octaves in a single phrase, and focusing on the upper register for extended periods.
Fiedler says he was initially attracted to this project because "when I first heard Mangelsdorff's music I was struck by Albert's ability to seamlessly assimilate all these extended trombone techniques into his tunes without sounding 'quirky' or really 'out.'" He also notes that he "shares a similar sense of drama and humor .......
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Editor's info:
It is difficult to imagine, given his reputation as one of the most important jazz trombonists of the past thirty or forty years, that nobody has recorded a tribute album of the tunes of the great German jazz trombonist, Albert Mangelsdorff.
That is, until now.
Lest anyone have slept during the past decades of modern jazz, Albert Mangelsdorff just happens to be the leading European jazz trombonist tracing all the way back to the 1960s.
This ambitious - some might call it audacious - project from New York-based trombonist Joe Fiedler directly confronts several of the better known of these tricky and difficult tunes, and puts his individual stamp on each one.
Fiedler is the perfect person to perform the Mangelsdorff book. As a trombonist, and an extraordinary one, Fiedler exploits Mangelsdorff's sophisticated, complex writing, which focuses on the expansive possibilities of the horn. Fiedler has a total command of the technique of multi-phonics (the ability to play and sing a note simultaneously, leading to the illusion of self-harmonizing) that characterizes much of Mangelsdorff's work, and like his German role model, Fiedler is a brilliant soloist in his own right, something that comes through clearly on these tracks. Too, the younger trombonist understands that the best form of flattery comes not from aping but from reinterpreting, something Fiedler is careful to do here. Finally, Fiedler studied the compositions thoroughly, and practiced extensively to meet the challenges posed by them, including jumping octaves in a single phrase, and focusing on the upper register for extended periods.
Fiedler says he was initially attracted to this project because "when I first heard Mangelsdorff's music I was struck by Albert's ability to seamlessly assimilate all these extended trombone techniques into his tunes without sounding 'quirky' or really 'out.'" He also notes that he "shares a similar sense of drama and humor .......
more