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Peter Brötzmann   03/30/1968

Meistersingerhalle, Nürnberg, Germany
Source Source: rb/WDR, WDR-I (1968-06-07), recorded by BR (Bayrischer Rundfunk)
Lineage: FM(WDR)>reeltape>HD>FLAC
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Notes "In May 1968 (no exact date is known) Peter Brötzmann had organized a recording session for his octet in Bremen. Because in those days no record label was willing to publish the radical music of Brötzmann, he decided to produce a private record again. It was published in 1968 and was available only by a private order from Brötzmann himself. Today this "Machine Gun"-LP (BRO-2, 1968) is counted as "arguably the single most important landmark in European free music" (>http://www.atavistic.com/albums.php?id=175).

In 1972 this LP was reissued by the Berlin based Free Music Production (FMP-090), later on CD with the additional alternate takes and recently this year again by John Corbett and Peter Brötzmann: The Complete Machine Gun Sessions (Deluxe Reissue+Bonus Tracks) Atavistic ALP262CD (2007).
The most important new bonus track on this recent reissue is the live performance of the PB Nonet (Octet+Gerd Dudek) at the "Deutsches Jazzfestival Frankfurt" (March 24, 1968), recorded and broadcasted by the HR (Hessischer Rundfunk). Up to now this bonus track is thought as "the only live version of MACHINE GUN ever recorded" (>http://www.atavistic.com/albums.php?id=175).

Luckily this is not true! There is minimum one more live recording:
On March 30, 1968 - one week after the Frankfurt concert - the PB Group was performing at the second "Jazz Ost-West" festival in Nuernberg; this time again as Nonet like in Frankfurt, but with Manfred Schoof as additional musician. It was recorded by the BR (Bayrischer Rundfunk) and broadcasted by several stations, among others by the WDR.
This forgotten performance is not only the most rarest; with the solos of Schoof (cornet) and Breuker (bassclarinet) it is also the most colourful one of the different "Machine Gun" versions.
Here it is."
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