New Violin Summit (Remastered) Don ‘Sugar Cane’ Harris, Jean-Luc Ponty, Nipso Brantner, Michal Urbaniak

• 1 Valium 10:42
• 2 Got My Mojo Working 09:10
• 3 Nuggis 13:03
• 4 Horizon 08:15
• 5 Flipping 13:44
• 6 Astorama 12:06
• 7 Violin Summit No. II 18:09
• Total Runtime 01:25:09

Info for New Violin Summit (Remastered)

Recorded live at the ’71 Berlin Festival, this amazing album highlights four iconic jazz violinists. Jean Luc Ponty ‘plays violin like Coltrane plays saxophone.’ The Frenchman transported violin playing into the world of modern jazz. Called ‘the Jimmy Hendrix of the violin’, Don ‘Sugarcane’ Harris’s work with Frank Zappa, John Lee Hooker, and Little Richard affirmed that he was the violin master of jazz-inflected rock ‘n roll. Michal Urbaniak played a major role in the development of jazz fusion in the 70’s and 80’s, blending Polish folk music with the funk and fusion of the Big Apple, and Nipso Brantner was renowned for his swing style in the tradition of Reinhardt and Grappelli. The four are accompanied by a top international rhythm section. Urbaniak’s fusion piece Valium is much more a stimulant than a downer as all four show off their considerable chops. Sugarcane and Nipso walk on the soulful side of the street on the classic blues Got My Mojo Working (check out guitarist Terje Rypdal’s solo), and the up-tempo Nuggis has Ponty and Urbaniak in virtuoso form. On the Avant-guard Horizon, Harris, Urbaniak and Brantner test the limits of their instruments, while Flipping is Ponty’s solo tour de force. Astorama belongs to Harris and Ponty, while the 17-minute Violin Summit II is a fusion feast for the four. A violin extravaganza!

Don ‘Sugar Cane’ Harris, violin
Jean-Luc Ponty, violin
Michal Urbaniak, violin
Nipso Brantner, violin
Terje Rypdal, guitar
Wolfgang Dauner, keyboards
Neville Whitehead, bass
Robert Wyatt, drums

Recorded November 7, 1971 live at the Berlin Jazz Festival, Berlin Philharmonic Hall

Digitally remastered

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