Jazz Bunker
Live album by
Han Bennink, Eugene Chadbourne, and Toshinori Kondo
Released2000
RecordedFebruary 1980
VenueJazz Bunker, Rotterdam, Holland
GenreFree improvisation
Length1:33:58
LabelGolden Years of New Jazz
GY 7/8
ProducerEugene Chadbourne, Leo Feigin
Han Bennink chronology
The Laughing Owl
(2000)		 Jazz Bunker
(2000)		 Nerve Beats
(2001)

Jazz Bunker is a live double album by Han Bennink, Eugene Chadbourne, and Toshinori Kondo. Featuring a wide variety of instrumentation, it was recorded during February 1980 at the Jazz Bunker in Rotterdam, Holland, and was not released until 2000, when it was issued on CD by Golden Years of New Jazz, an imprint of Leo Records.[1][2][3][4]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
All About Jazz[5]
AllMusic[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[6]

In a review for AllMusic, Steve Loewy called Jazz Bunker "an absolutely fascinating exposition of free jazz," and wrote: "the three musicians fly high, with more than a dozen different instruments represented... the whole conglomeration is outrageously wild. While sometimes it all seems somewhat anarchic, there are nonetheless plenty of rewarding moments."[1]

The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings described the album as "a meeting of three masters of cracked extravagance," and commented: "it is much more traditional in flavour than most European improvised music... for much of the way it hardly feels avant-garde at all... as a constantly surprising, intense and funny piece of documentation, it ranks highly in this area."[6]

Glenn Astarita of All About Jazz stated: "we are presented with 2 CDs of frolicsome fun and boisterous improvisation... the boys were letting their hair down and must have been enjoying themselves yet it may be a tad difficult getting through both CDs in one sitting. Perhaps this recording should be reserved for the proper – emotional – occasion, or at a time when life's trivialities become overly persistent."[5]

Coda's Stuart Broomer remarked: "these 2 CDs of non-stop 1980 improv often surprise... the result here is explosive energy music, with Kondo often keeping things moving in direct lines."[7]

Track listing

Disc 1
  1. "Untitled" – 47:12
Disc 2
  1. "Untitled" – 46:48

Personnel

  • Han Bennink – drums, piano, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, B♭ clarinet, trombone, harmonica, voice
  • Eugene Chadbourne – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, piano, voice, effects
  • Toshinori Kondo – trumpet, euphonium, effects, percussion, voice

References

  1. 1 2 3 Loewy, Steve. "Han Bennink: Jazz Bunker". AllMusic. Retrieved November 13, 2023.
  2. ↑ "Han Bennink - Jazz Bunker". Jazz Music Archives. Retrieved November 13, 2023.
  3. ↑ "CD GY 007/008 - Golden Years of New Jazz". Leo Records. Retrieved November 13, 2023.
  4. ↑ "Golden Years of New Jazz". JazzLists. Retrieved November 13, 2023.
  5. 1 2 Astarita, Glenn (March 1, 2000). "Bennink - Chadbourne - Kondo: Jazz Bunker". All About Jazz. Retrieved November 13, 2023.
  6. 1 2 Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. Penguin Books. p. 111.
  7. ↑ Broomer, Stuart (November 2000). "Guitar Forms". Coda. No. 294. pp. 38–39.
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