Label: MPS Records – 21 20886-9
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album / Country: W. Germany / Released: 1971
Style: Fusion, Modal, Cool Jazz
Recorded Live at the Domicile, Munich, April 1971.
Design – Bernhard Wetz
Photography By – Franz Hubmann, Sepp Werkmeiste
Engineer – Willi Schmidt
Liner Notes – Ulrich Olshausen
Producer – Willi Fruth
Distributed By – BASF
Matrix / Runout (Side A): 0654 987 S 1
Matrix / Runout (Side B): 0654 987 S 2
A1 - Sunshine .................................................................................................... 8:36
A2 - Im Wald ...................................................................................................... 8:29
A3 - Encore ........................................................................................................ 5:26
B - Fata Morgana ........................................................................................... 17:58
a) - Part 1: Die Wüste
b) - Part 2: Die Oase
c) - Part 3: Tanz
All compositions of Fritz Pauer
Personnel:
Friedrich Gulda – piano,
Fritz Pauer – electric piano
Klaus Weiss – drums, percussion
In 1949, Gulda toured Europe and South America, earning international acclaim for his treatments of Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven, and the following year he successfully debuted at Carnegie Hall. Gulda became more involved in jazz from 1951 on, when he improvised with Dizzy Gillespie following a performance with the Chicago Symphony. Five years later, Gulda played his first American jazz concert at Birdland (N.Y.C.), followed by a performance at the Newport Jazz Festival. After this, Gulda formed the Eurojazz Orchestra, a jazz combo and big band which drew from both jazz and classical compositions. In 1966, ten years after his Birdland appearance, Gulda organized a modern jazz competition in his native city. He was awarded the Vienna Academy's Beethoven Ring in 1970, but later returned it to protest what he regarded as a constricting educational system. This only reinforced the public's perception of Gulda as an eccentric...
_ Review By Joslyn Layne
This live 1971 recording includes Friedrich and second pianist Fritz Pauer both on electric and acoustic pianos, plus drummer Klaus Weiss. It's a cross between aspects of jazz, fusion and contemporary music.