Lol Coxhill & Franz Koglmann & Andrea Centazzo - Lol Coxhill Ictus Collection - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Cjant - First concert for small orchestra based upon friulian folk songs, are Centazzo's first orchestral compositions combining a string section along with the original Mitteleuropa (Free Jazz) Orchestra. The name for the ensemble came not only from the cultural background of it's members but also from middle-European mold of the music written for it. Housed in a DVD style case.

The collaboration between Andrea Centazzo and Lol Coxhill lasted a few years and saw them in mainly 3 different combinations, the two playing as a duo or with trombonist Giancarlo Schiaffini or with the trumpeter Franz Koglmann. In 1987 Coxhill, Centazzo and Schiaffini met in Pistoia for a recording session that became the LP Moot. This is the first CD reissue of two seminal LP's featuring the soprano sax master Lol Coxhill along with Andrea Centazzo and Giancarlo Schiaffini; Lol plays solos on the Lid tracks. Housed in a DVD style case.

This CD is a performance with a classic jazz combo saxophone, double bass, and percussion. Naturally, the percussion no longer reflects the timbre of the tonal instrument, but brushes up the executive praxis in long 4/4 accompaniments next to Carter's extraordinary bass. All tracks on this CD were recorded live at a concert in Udine, the final show of a tour that covered all the major Italian cities. - Andrea Centazzo.