Dauner, Wolfgang
Dream Talk

🇩🇪, 1964.
According to some readings, this album, mainly led by pianist WD, is the first to motivate the creation of fusion genre. Hard to say. This is subtle lounge jazz feeling, with a couple of demo done by each trio member. #3 Yesterdays is a fav, and the whole album is pleasant jazz trip that might sound uncommon from there and then.

Wolfgang Dauner(p)
Eberhard Weber(b)
Fred Braceful(ds)

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Perpetual Motion Machines (music for a film) (2024)

🇺🇸, 2024.
PA's only and hidden review of the concept album deals with spoiling with sorta paragraphs and grants about 50% rate of happiness to it. Don't trust him, because that's a pretty nice album in which DBS respect themselves by finally enjoying playing easy and aerial music à la Pink Floyd, but in their own way and sounds, for a (documentary) movie, with Durga singing at the end (along with kb player main member). Just like PF did decades ago.
(Too?) Many tracks for a too short album duration, but the whole work is worth it, heart oriented, with a couple of >5 min tunes. Short and pleasant.

Hancock, Herbie
Inventions & Dimensions

🇺🇸, 1963.
He always wants to do more. To go further. These are improvisational tracks based on old school jazz melting latino sound and feeling here.
This album marks the point of an apogee for HH. He merged into the Miles Davis world after this, but kept on soloing with brilliant top notch musicians. That makes a perfect band each time.
"Despite" the 62 years-old age of it, the brighty dry sound quality back then prooves pretty accurate. This is one of the numerous must-have albums anyone should have listened to.
After having delved more into pure jazz, the expanded album closes with a > 10min alternate version of #4 Mimosa.

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