Leszek Żądło Quartet - Live in Hamburg '75

1.Very Little Green Man - Part 1   27:12

2.Very Little Green Man - Part 2   27:39

Leszek Żądło – tenor & soprano saxophones
Larry Porter – piano
Günter Lenz – double bass
Joe Nay – drums

This album is a live recording by the international quartet Leszek Żądło, recorded by Radio Norddeutscher Rundfunk during the 1. New Jazz Festival in Hamburg, in June 1975. The two legendary clubs - Fabrik and Onkel Pö's Carnegie Hall - were brimming with phenomenal avant-garde for four concert evenings. Invited jazz stars included Terje Rypdal, Dave Liebman, Eberhard Weber, Jan Garbarek, Palle Danielsson, Bobo Stenson, Albert Mangelsdorff, Anthony Braxton, Joachim Kühn, as well as Tomasz Stańko with Adam Makowicz and Czesław Bartkowski. On 8 June, a fantastic concert at Onkel Pö was given by the Leszek Zadlo Quartet, consisting of: Leszek Żądło (saxophones), American pianist Larry Porter and the German rhythm section - Günter Lenz (bass) and Joe Nay (drums). Żądło was one of the first Polish jazz musicians who managed to make the West their new home. In 1966, he moved to Austria, where he worked with the prestigious Vienna Radio and Television Big Band (ORF). He played with Friedrich Gulda, Art Farmer, Dexter Gordon and Erich Kleinschuster, among others. In 1973 he recorded his debut album Inner Silence.  In 1975 Żądło relocated to Germany, settling in Munich and quickly becoming an integral part of the local scene. Back then, Żądło was perhaps the most “Coltrane-oriented” European jazz musician, total and uncompromising. His two-part composition Very Little Green Man, which the quartet played that festival evening, was a tribute to the Master, but also Leszek Żądło's own voice - a manifesto for the expression of freedom in improvised music. 

Recorded live on 8 June 1975 at Onkel Pő's Carnegie Hall in Hamburg (Germany). 
Recording engineer: Hans-Heinrich Breitkreuz II Recording supervisor: Michael Naura II Executive producer for NDR: Stefan Gerdes
Design: For Tune®

label: For Tune, 2024
cat. no. 0170(101)
format: CD, digipack