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Towards the end of the eighties Paul
Zauner had the opportunity to play at various concerts and tours
with important jazz musicans such as Leon Thomas, George Adams,
David Murray and Hamiet Bluiett as well as record CD's.
At the same time a regular collaboration with Polish and Austrian
musicians like Bumi Fian, Jarek Smietana and Woody Schabata
took place. These musical relationships have lasted up until
the present.
At the beginning of the 90's a collaboration between Jean Paul
Bourelly and John Purcell existed for a few years. The most
lasting impression was left ideed by the collaboration between
him and the ingenious musician Harry Pepl.
In 1992 Paul Zauner and Franz Hackl founded their first band
called ITSLYF. In which Franz Hackl (musical director),
Thomas Kugi, Gottfried Stöger, David Gilmore, Kenny Davis,
Rodney Holmes and Pavan Kumar and others played from 92-97.
Tours to Asia, Africa, North and South America and great European
festivals brought them great success with Avantgarde-Fusion-Jazz.
The CD "Hep Caolin" (PAO/VERVE) was admitted
to the "Guide of Jazz and Blues" as one of the best
CD's of the century and appraised with 5 stars. |
photo: Rof Witt |
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After this musical high flight came a break to rethink and the
wish to simplify the musical and organisational concept and
to process experiences with Austrian musicans into a simple
jazz context as well as follow new impressions and thoughts
about music.
The elegant master of the vibraphone Woody Schabata was an important
partner on this new track as well as the bass player Wolfram
Derschmidt. Extraordinary is also Reini Winkler's skill and
depth of music on drums. Saxophone and bassclarinet are performed
by the young starplayer Clemens Salesny.
"Music
out of the depths of blues to new European music spiced with
human failings."
Eddie Henderson appears as a special guest in August 2003. He
is the great trumpet player who plays as lead and sideman in
important bands and on CD's amongst them Art Blakey's "Jazz
Messangers" and Herbie Hancock.
In summer 2003 there was a special program called "Impressionism
in Modern Jazz". This was a musical time travel starting
with a hommage to Claude Debussy and Eric Satie. Another interesting
and important station was the German based musican Bix (Bismarck)
Beiderbecke, who brought under the disguise of Dixieland-Jazz
an impressionistic style into his music and partially foreclosed
already in the 30's through his "cool" tonality modern
trumpet playing. A further item on the program consisted of
fragments of his titles "In the Mist" which
was performed as a new piece of music under the title of "Tribute
to Bix Beiderbecke". The rest of the programm was
composed by Woddy Schabata and Paul Zauner. |
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