Peter Brötzmann Peter Brötzmann (born 6 March 1941) is a German saxophonist and clarinetist. Biography Early life Brötzmann was born in Remscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He studied painting in Wuppertal and was involved with the Fluxus movement ...

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Track listing

;Disc I - Chicago Tentet + 1 # "Untitled" – 53:15 ;Disc II - Sonore, Zerang/Nilssen-Love, Bauer/Holmlander # "Untitled" (Sonore: Ken Vandermark, Mats Gustafsson, Peter Brötzmann) – 12:48 # "Untitled" (Sonore: Ken Vandermark, Mats Gustafsson, Peter Brötzmann) – 11:25 # "Untitled" (Michael Zerang / Paal Nilssen-Love) – 22:27 # "Untitled" (Johannes Bauer / Per Åke Holmlander) – 10:54 # "Untitled" (Johannes Bauer / Per Åke Holmlander) – 7:21 ;Disc III - McPhee/Vandermark, Bishop/Nilssen-Love # "Untitled" (Joe McPhee / Ken Vandermark) – 9:38 # "Untitled" (Joe McPhee / Ken Vandermark) – 10:14 # "Untitled" (Jeb Bishop / Paal Nilssen-Love) – 15:00 # "Untitled" (Jeb Bishop / Paal Nilssen-Love) – 14:36 ;Disc IV - Survival Unit III, Trombone Choir # "Untitled" (Survival Unit III: Fred Lonberg-Holm, Joe McPhee, Michael Zerang) – 15:10 # "Untitled" (Survival Unit III: Fred Lonberg-Holm, Joe McPhee, Michael Zerang) – 10:50 # "Untitled" (Trombone Choir: Jeb Bishop, Joe McPhee, Johannes Bauer, Per Åke Holmlander) – 13:01 # "Untitled" (Trombone Choir: Jeb Bishop, Joe McPhee, Johannes Bauer, Per Åke Holmlander) – 8:09 # "Untitled" (Trombone Choir: Jeb Bishop, Joe McPhee, Johannes Bauer, Per Åke Holmlander) – 4:08 ;Disc V - Chicago Tentet + 1 # "Untitled" – 36:32 # "Untitled" – 16:28

Personnel

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Peter Brötzmann Peter Brötzmann (born 6 March 1941) is a German saxophonist and clarinetist. Biography Early life Brötzmann was born in Remscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He studied painting in Wuppertal and was involved with the Fluxus movement ...

– reeds * Mats Gustafsson – reeds * Ken Vandermark – reeds *

Joe McPhee Joe McPhee (born November 3, 1939) is an American jazz multi-instrumentalist born in Miami, Florida, a player of tenor, alto, and soprano saxophone, the trumpet, flugelhorn and valve trombone. McPhee grew up in Poughkeepsie, New York, and is ...

– trumpet, saxophone *

Jeb Bishop Jeb Bishop (born 1962) is an American jazz trombone player. He grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina, and attended Jesse O. Sanderson High School. He has studied music (classical trombone performance) at Northwestern University, engineering and ...

– trombone * Johannes Bauer – trombone * Per Åke Holmlander – tuba * Fred Lonberg-Holm – cello *

Kent Kessler Kent Kessler (born January 28, 1957) is an American jazz double-bassist. Career Although born in Crawfordsville, Indiana, Kessler grew up on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He began playing trombone at age ten. When he was thirteen, he moved with his f ...

– double bass * Paal Nilssen-Love – drums *

Michael Zerang Michael Zerang (born November 16, 1958) is an American jazz percussionist and drummer. Career Zerang's parents both emigrated to the United States from the Middle East; his father is Iranian and his mother Iraqi.2010 live albums Peter Brötzmann live albums