More Zipflo Reinhardt with Oceana from 1979

To complement the later release posted earlier this is in a similar style but perhaps not quite as good, with the latter album edging this out in terms of variety of tempos, moods, and creativity in melodies.  Too bad there was nothing to follow that masterpiece, Light of the Future...  (light indeed: more like the bright light at the beginning of a tunnel into a dead end...)

Empty Road:





Note that all compositions are by Zipflo.


Drums, Percussion – Christoph Haberer
Electric Bass, Acoustic Bass – Hans Joachim Schmidt
Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar – Günter Möll
Keyboards – Hans Peter Hepp
Producer – Wilhelm F. Schmid

Zipflo Reinhardt In The Light of the Future

Jazz violinist, born 21. November 1949 in Friedrichshafen, Germany, a descendant of Django Reinhardt.

This is without a doubt his fusionary masterpiece.  Here, the tenderness of The Domestic Fly surely reminds us of the great "French" violinist David Rose who I featured before, years ago:





How this relates to the arthropod that spits out its digestive enzymes onto food found on surfaces in order to liquefy and pre-digest it before sucking it up with its proboscis, thereby well deserving its title as a dirty animal, I don't know...

In his discography you'll see he made a couple of standard-issue jazz albums early on before jumping on that great fusion train later in the seventies.  I'll be bringing more from him at a later date.