2-CD jw 124 LESTER BOWIE
w./WILLIAM PARKER & PHILIP WILSON
THE GREAT PRETENDER/STEEL & BREATH
CD 1: LIVE AR JAZZBÜHNE BERLIN 1982
LESTER BOWIE trumpet
ARI BROWN soprano & tenor saxophones
ART MATTHEWS piano
FRED WILLIAMS bass
WILLIAM PARKER bass
PHILIP WILSON drums
FONTELLA BASS piano & vocals
MARTHA BASS vocals
DAVID PEASTON piano & vocals

CD 2: STEEL + BREATH AT GREENPOINT STUDIOS N.Y.C.
LESTER BOWIE trumpet
WILLIAM PARKER bass
PHILIP WILSON drums

DE
Lester Bowie wagte den Brückenschlag zwischen Tradition und Avantgarde, zwischen Pop und Innovation. Dort, wo sich andere im Niemandsland verloren, fand er sich wieder im Kontinuum der afroamerikanischen Musik. Blues, Jazz, Rhythm & Blues, Spirituals, Gospels, der Rückgriff auf Afrikanisches und dass wagemutiges Streben ins Neuland. Die CHICAGOER ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF CREATIVE MUSIC / AACM, der sich Lester Bowie in den sechziger Jahren anschloss, formulierte es mit den magischen Formeln: ANCIENT TO THE FUTURE und GREAT BLACK MUSIC. Bert Noglik

EN
Lester Bowie ventured to bridge the gap between tradition and avantgarde, between pop and innovation. Where others got lost in no-man’s land, he found himself again in the continuum of Afro-American music. Blues, jazz, rhythm & blues, spirituals, gospels, the return to the African sound and the bold desire to pursue something new. The CHICAGO ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF CREATIVE MUSIC / AACM, which Lester Bowie joined in the sixties, described it with those magical phrases ANCIENT TO THE FUTURE and GREAT BLACK MUSIC. Bert Noglik