Martin Kratochvil & Jazz Q – Hvezdon/Asteroid (1984)

2011-05-22T08:57:00Z

Martin Kratochvil & Jazz Q – Hvezdon/Asteroid (1984)

Side A
1.Trhanec / The Muffin (4:35)
2.Rozepre / Dispute (6:15)
3.Procitání / Awaking (4:40)		play
4.Silvestr na Baštírne / New Year’s Eve on Bastirna (5:50)

Side B
1.Perut / Wing (7:15)
2.Pivo v prášku / Powder Beer (5:00)
3.Hvezdon / Asteroid (2:10)		play
4.Boží clovek / God’s Man (5:10)

František Francl - guitars
Martin Kratochvíl - piano, electric piano, synth, vocoder
Premysl Faukner – bass
Pavol Kozma – drums
With:
Michal Gera - trumpet (track 3)
Jaroslav Raušer - percussion (track 4)

Jazz Q was formed in 1964 by Martin Kratochvil (piano) and Jiri Stivin (woodwinds). In their early years, they were inspired by the late 50s free jazz happening in America. By the late 60s though, after becoming familiar with the English rock scene, Kratochvil decided to go in a more electric and groove-based direction. Jiri Stivin wasn't keen on playing this style and left shortly after recording their debut LP from 1970 "Coniunctio", which was a collaboration with a severed line-up of Blue Effect, and stylistically was a mish-mash of rock, fusion and free jazz. Kratochvil completely revamped the line-up with guitarist Lubos Andrst (Framus 5, Energit), bassist Vladimir Pudranek (Energit, ETC) and drummer Michal Vrbovec. In this line-up they recorded what may be their best known album "Watchtower". Frantisek Francl replaced Andrst and the band also worked with the English singer Joan Duggan on their next LP, "Symbiosis" from 1974. Amongst the scores of sound-alike jazz-rock bands present at the time, Jazz Q really found their own voice, although it could be argued that later stuff was more stylistically definable. Jazz Q was also one of the few long-lasting Czech fusion bands, being active from 1964 till 1984. In 2004 they have regrouped in a classic lineup, although Francl is substituted by Zdenek Fiser, another jazz-rock veteran from the Impuls fame.

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Martin Kratochvil & Tony Ackerman - Zvukobraní (Sound Harvest) [8] (2009)

2018-03-11T13:47:21Z

Martin Kratochvil & Tony Ackerman - Zvukobraní (Sound Harvest) [8] (2009)


1 	Tónorod (Soundbirth) 	4:43
2 	Po Srsti (Warm And Fuzzy) 	3:01
3 	Mezi Tichem A Zvukem (Between The Silence And The Sound) 	6:56
4	Modré Ráno (Blue Morning) 	3:45
5 	Hašteření (Bickering) 	6:59
6 	Na Hraně (On The Edge) 	1:29
7 	Obnažená (The Little She Knows) 	3:56
8 	Vážné Úmysly (True Intentions) 	4:08
9 	Loskuták (Water Bird) 	2:01
10 	Šumaři (The Fiddlers) 	2:42
11 	Globální Ochlazení (Global Cooling) 	3:32
12 	Zakřivený Prostor (Curved Space) 	4:40
13 	Horizont V Nedohlednu (No Horizon In Sight) 	2:46
14 	Potěšení (Pure Pleasure) 	5:34
15 	Lesky A Třesky (Sparks And Quarks) 	4:24

Martin Kratochvil - piano
Tony Ackerman - guitar

Following the well-received box set of recordings by the band Jazz Q, Supraphon is now serving up another large portion of Martin Kratochvíl’s music, this time produced in tandem with Tony Ackerman!

Kratochvíl and Ackerman combined their instruments (piano and guitar) back in 1986, when they made their debut album Stará známost (Old Acquaintance). This and another six discs – Ornament, Moravské koncerty (Moravian Concerts), Spolu (Together), Šerosvit (Duskiness) and Duology (Duologues) 1 + 2 – form the basis of this giant slab of excellent music. The seven CDs are supplemented by the bonus disc Zvukobraní (Sound Festival), containing 15 previously unreleased recordings from Martin Kratochvíl’s archive.

The two gentlemen also joined forces with the violinist Ivan Ženatý, the cellist Vojtěch Havel, the percussionist Imram Musa Zangi and the bass-guitarists Pavel P. Ryba and Přemysl Faukner, now and then under the moniker of the International Association for New Acoustic Music. In addition to the studio albums, the box set includes recordings made at concerts in Moravia, bearing witness to an attractive stage intimacy and virtuoso élan.

All the albums have been remastered, come in separate cardboard covers with reprinted original sleeves and are accompanied by sleevenotes written by Tony Ackerman and documentary photographs, all this in Joska Skalník’s graphic layout. Jazz fans are afforded yet another opportunity to add to their collections and savour the mastery of the two musicians, who are still vital concert performers. ---discogs.com

I have loved every minute these last twenty five years of playing together – in intimate, smoky jazz clubs, marble Communist culture houses of the 1980s, churches, museums, outdoor festivals in Moravia, Finland, Israel, Germany, USA. It’s a continuous stream of ideas, grooves, colors, wide open and yet obeying its own unspoken rules peculiar only to the three of us continuing on this path. Now sit back and enjoy; we only hope that you will get half as much pleasure out of listening to this collection as we did in making it. ---Tony Ackerman

Po úspěšném CDboxu kapely Jazz Q je tu další velká porce muziky M. Kratochvíla, tentokrát v duu s Tonym Ackermanem! Spojení jejich klavíru a kytary je funkční již od roku 1986, kdy pod názvem Stará známost vydali debutové album, To, a dalších šest (Ornament, Moravské koncerty, Spolu, Šerosvit a Duology 1 + 2) tvoří zaklad této mohutné dávky výborné hudby. Komplet na celkem osm cédéček doplňuje bonusový disk Zvukobraní, nabízející 15 nahrávek z archivu Martina Kratochvíla, při této příležitosti vůbec poprvé vydaných.

Oba pánové se na uvedených albech setkali také s houslistou Ivanem Ženatým, cellistou Vojtěchem Havlem, perkusionistou Imramem Musou Zangim i baskytaristy Pavlem P. Rybou a Přemyslem Fauknerem, občas pod pravdivou hlavičkou Mezinárodního sdružení pro akustickou hudbu. Vedle studiových nahrávek je tu k dispozici i záznam moravských koncertních vystoupení, dokazující přitažlivou pódiovou intimitu i virtuózní zábavnost.

Všechna alba prošla novým remasteringem, jsou umístěna v individuálních kartonových pošetkách s reprinty původních obalů, doplněna sleevenotes Tonyho Ackermana a dokumentárními fotografiemi, to vše v jednotící grafice Josky Skalníka. Jazzoví fandové tak mají další šanci na atraktivní kompletaci vzpomínek, potvrzených ovšem i dnes koncertně vitální dvojicí muzikantů. ---supraphon.cz

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