Remainder of Theo Jorgensmann (In Time, Live at Birdland, Laterna Magica, Deep Blue Lake)

 

Some more from him, good and bad, of note the last album is quite good, Deep Blue Lake:

Back to Theo Jorgensmann with the Clarinet Summit in You Better Fly Away 1980

 

It's a series, as you can see discogged here.

Info for this one:

Clarinet Summit, You Better Fly Away - 1979 live baden baden (with aldo romano & gianluigi trovesi)

live in New Jazz Meeting Baden-Baden Nov. 1979, record released in 1980, no re-issues exist), produced by Joachim Berendt.

Featured clarinet players (also doubling on bass & contrabass cls + Romanian flute: 

John Carter, Perry Robinson, Theo Jörgensmann, Bernd Konrad, Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky, Gianluigi Trovesi

Backing band: Didier Lockwood (vl), Eje Thelin (tb), Stan Tracey (p), J-F Jenny-Clark & Kai Kanthak (b), Aldo Romano & Günter Sommer (d).

Although one would expect regular contemporary jazz with overlong improvisations bordering on the tedious and mentally / physically taxing like a 2-week long holter monitor checking your heart rhythm, the music is actually quite interesting, shockingly creative and well composed. Note the great violinist Didier Lockwood is on here too.

Consider just the opener / title track:

Truly a much underrated album here, along with the Go Ahead Clarinet from earlier. Very well composed music.

Another one from K. Akiyama, 1982's Zoomin'

 

Here's one more from him that was missing. In the end I really enjoyed his work (placed here) and find it tragic he is so unknown. This one is less exemplary, having less of the high-energy fusion and really original songwriting compared to its predecessor.  The track called Dawn starts off so auspiciously but is not developed in as progressive a manner as one would have hoped:

Back to the Theo Jorgensmann Quartet with Straightout (1977) and Song of Bowaje (1981)

What an incredible cover for Bowaje! Very similar to the preceding posts.

From Straightout, Call and Response:

Sigi Schwab and Percussion Academia in Silversand

Less impressive than the preceding posts, back to the contemporary style guitar based jazz from Germany we're heard so often here. Title track:

Information from this grouping here, who did 3 albums back in the day.