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稍有涉及Free-Jazz/Improv演奏音乐的朋友,应该对Peter Brotzmann并不陌生。这位1941年3月6日生於德国Remscheid地区的传奇Saxophone乐手,可能是继John Coltrane以来演奏风格最为犀利与前卫的一员。若说你已经见识过Albert Ayler、Pharoah Sanders、Charles Gayle及David S. Ware等人的作品,那恐怕是不能遗漏了Peter Brotzmann。Peter Brotzmann年少的时候不仅对音乐感兴趣,艺术与绘画也曾经深深地吸引著Brotzmann,这点可以反应在其后Brotzmann的唱片封面设计上。而作为六O年代以降欧陆先锋爵士乐手,Brotzmann的铜管乐器演奏吸纳自黑人音乐的影响与啟蒙,还包括已故的Albert Ayler。放弃了对绘画的研究与创作后,Brotzmann一头栽进了Free-Jazz/Improv的音乐领域,首先於1962/63年间与贝斯手 Peter Kowald及多位非固定客席鼓手开始了三重奏的演奏生涯。当时他们以演奏Charlie Mingus、Ornette Coleman等自由爵士名家的作品为起头,同时也受到Nam June Paik、John Cage等作曲家的影响,因而创造了一种新式的Improv演奏风格。在美国与欧洲各地的发展略有小成之后,Brotzmann旋及回到德国发展,开始尝试各类实验音乐的探索与钻研。日后Brotzmann曾与多位欧陆前卫乐手组成三重奏、四重奏甚至六重奏,发行了「Machine Gun」、「Nipples」与「Balls」这些较广为人知的录音作品。而这批作品也是当时FMP厂牌的重要发行之一,「Nipples」还盛传半数作品由德国Krautrock录音师Conny Plank的录音室中录製。而得以使这批重要作品重现於世,得拜Atavistic的监製John Corbett所赐。John Corbett在Atavistic厂牌底下所开发的Unheard Music系列,多半挑选了许多罕见录音珍品,当然Peter Brotzmann的「Nipples」与「Balls」也是其中之一。
Nearly four decades after his death, the legacy of Albert Ayler is plain — a plethora of reed-biting aural contortionists bent on exploiting the saxophone's propensity for making sounds that resemble a human scream. Many such players, unable to play anything resembling a coherent melody, rely instead on the extreme manifestations of the Ayler technique; their playing is more often than not a randomly executed wall of energy and emotion-driven white noise. Peter Brötzmann, on the other hand, is the rare Ayler-influenced saxophonist capable (like Ayler) of producing improvised lines of depth and sensitivity while informing them with enough raw power to make a lesser saxophonist wilt. Brötzmann's playing has little of the arbitrariness one associates with other similar tenor saxophonists like Charles Gayle or Ivo Perelman; Brötzmann possesses a surety of tone and a melodic center characteristic of a focused musical conception. While there's no lack of spontaneity in his music, Brötzmann's concern with motivic and melodic reiteration gives his playing a palpable sense of direction. Indeed, Brötzmann's obsession often serves as a pivot upon which an ensemble turns, making him a consummate team player, in addition to being an affecting soloist.
Brötzmann was first a visual artist, attending the Art Academy of Wuppertal. A self-taught saxophonist, he began playing with Dixieland bands beginning in 1959. In the early '60s he became involved with the avant-garde Fluxus movement. He began plying free jazz around 1964; in 1965 he played in a group with the virtuoso bassist Peter Kowald and the Swedish drummer Sven-Åke Johansson. The next year he played with Michael Mantler and Carla Bley's band and became associated with Alexander Schlippenbach's Globe Unity Orchestra. In 1969 Brötzmann helped form FMP, a long-lived free jazz label and presenter that issues recordings and sponsors live performances. In the '70s, Brötzmann would play and record with pianist Fred van Hove, drummer Han Bennink, trumpeter Don Cherry, and trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff, among others. His circle of associates would continue to widen; in 1986 he would play (with drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson, guitarist Sonny Sharrock, and electric bassist/producer Bill Laswell) in Last Exit, a metal/free jazz group that enjoyed brief success. By the late '90s one would be hard-pressed to name a prominent free jazz musician with whom Brötzmann had not played.
The strength of his personality is matched by his adaptability; as evidence, hear Eight by Three, his 1997 recording with the pianist Borah Bergman and multi-reedist Anthony Braxton. While one might expect Brötzmann's incendiary nature to overwhelm the more blithe Braxton, he instead manages to parry and complement effectively. With Bergman's percussive intensity, the record becomes one of the more unusual and compelling free jazz artifacts of the era. In 2007 The Complete Machine Gun Sessions, was released, reissuing the seminal free jazz outing Machine Gun recorded by the Peter Brötzmann Octet in 1968 and featuring two previously unreleased alternate takes and a live track. The ever prolific Brötzmann put out three new sets in 2008, The Fat Is Gone, Born Broke, and The Brain of the Dog in Section, all on Atavistic Records.