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Maria Magdalena

Joe Haider Sextet

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Format: CD
Label: Double Moon Records
UPC: 0608917140828
Catnr: DMCHR 71408
Release date: 22 April 2022
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Double Moon Records
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0608917140828
Catalogue number
DMCHR 71408
Release date
22 April 2022

"... A continuation would be desirable: After all, there are not so many left who can or want to celebrate the timeless mid-century aesthetics of jazz as perfectly as Joe Haider.  "

Rondo, 18-6-2022
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Joe Haider fills out a more than an exciting chapter in the book of German jazz history. The guy is certainly a milestone on the piano too. However, he is also one of the most overlooked and not listened to. Is he also an innovator? If you think that real innovation lies these days in resisting the oversized gripping arms of the spirit of the times uncompromisingly, then yes. And a role model? Musically in every respect. In other respects, however, the protagonist even has doubts himself, at least in terms of his past. But one thing is certain: Joe Haider is without a doubt an original and a creator of a certain style. He is one of the most important German jazz musicians of the postwar period.

“I have been on the road as a jazz pianist, composer, arranger and educator for more than 60 years, and an end is not yet in sight. I'm 84 now, but still fresh and alive!” A truly more than satisfactory balance sheet that Haider can draw in these turbulent times. Even if he admits: “But it sounds like the final minutes or overtime followed by a penalty shoot-out, to put it in soccer jargon. Still, I need to see how I can move on. I had the chance to meet many musicians and participate in many concerts as a pianist and band leader in my long career. I am extremely grateful for that!” Music determines the existence of the Darmstädt native more than anything else. It has always been a driving force, lifeblood, emotional sponge, companion, lover, excuse and articulation possibility all at the same time for him, always present, in good and bad days. Haider has concluded a pact for life with it, from the day when he decided to commit himself to jazz wholly with body and soul. If this American cultural import has a quite unique sound in German-speaking countries today, this is also due to someone like him.

As house pianist in the legendary jazz club "domicile" in Munich in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Joe met all the big names in international jazz as well as those who had brilliant ideas: Nathan Davis, Booker Ervin, Benny Bailey, Johnny Griffin, Philly Joe Jones, Joe Newman, Klaus Doldinger, Leo Wright, Peter Trunk, Dusko Goykovich, Pierre Favre, Klaus Weiss, Don Menza, Manfred Schoof, Mark Murphy and Hans Koller. Despite a career that more resembled a roller coaster and a market for recorded music, which increasingly pandered to the laws of commercial success, he repeatedly released records of downright admirable constancy and consistency. However, his contributions to the training of talented jazz musicians are almost to be assessed as more valuable. In 1974, Joe Haider founded the Munich Jazz School in Munich, and he directed the Swiss Jazz School in Bern from 1984 to 1995 in his adopted home of Switzerland. He gathered a myriad of talented musicians around him everywhere to teach them what he had learned from others.
Joe Haider füllt ein mehr als spannendes Kapitel im Buch der deutschen Jazzgeschichte aus. Ein Markstein ist der Kauz am Piano in jeder Hinsicht. Aber einer, der meist übersehen, respektive überhört wurde. Ist er auch ein Innovator? Wenn man die Auffassung vertritt, die eigentliche Innovation dieser Tage liege darin, sich unbeugsam der überdimensionalen Greifarme des Zeitgeistes zu erwehren, dann schon. Und ein Vorbild? Musikalisch in jeder Hinsicht. In anderen Belangen hegt jedoch der Protagonist selbst Zweifel, zumindest was seine Vergangenheit anbelangt. An einem kommt jedoch niemand vorbei: Joe Haider ist ohne jeden Zweifel ein Original, ein Stilbildner. Einer der wichtigsten deutschen Jazzmusiker der Nachkriegszeit.

„Seit über 60 Jahren bin ich nun als Jazzpianist, Komponist, Arrangeur und Pädagoge unterwegs, und ein Ende ist noch nicht in Sicht. Ich bin jetzt schon 84, aber immer noch frisch und lebendig!“ Eine fürwahr mehr als zufriedenstellende Bilanz, die Haider in diesen bewegten Zeiten ziehen kann. Auch wenn er einräumt: „Aber es klingt wie die Schlussphase oder wie die Verlängerung mit anschließendem Elfmeterschießen, um es im Fußball-Jargon auszudrücken. Trotzdem muss ich sehen, wie ich weitermachen kann. In meiner langen Karriere konnte ich viele Musikerkollegen kennen lernen und an vielen Konzerten als Pianist und Bandleader teilnehmen. Dafür bin ich unendlich dankbar!“ Musik bestimmt das Dasein des gebürtigen Darmstädters mehr als alles andere. Sie war für ihn allzeit Triebfeder, Lebenselixier, emotionaler Schwamm, Weggefährtin, Liebhaberin, Ausrede und Artikulationsmöglichkeit in einem, immer präsent, in guten wie in schlechten Tagen. Haider hat einen Pakt auf Lebenszeit mit ihr geschlossen, von dem Tag an, als er entschied, sich mit Haut, Haaren und Seele dem Jazz zu verschreiben. Wenn dieser amerikanische Kulturimport im deutschsprachigen Raum heute einen durchaus eigenständigen Klang besitzt, dann liegt dies auch an einem wie ihm.

Im legendären Jazzclub „domicile“ in München traf Joe als Hauspianist Ende der 1960er, Anfang der 1970er Jahre auf jeden, der im internationalen Jazz Rang, Namen und eine zündende Idee hatte: Nathan Davis, Booker Ervin, Benny Bailey, Johnny Griffin, Philly Joe Jones, Joe Newman, Klaus Doldinger, Leo Wright, Peter Trunk, Dusko Goykovich, Pierre Favre, Klaus Weiss, Don Menza, Manfred Schoof, Mark Murphy, Hans Koller. Trotz einer Karriere, die mehr einer Achterbahn glich und einem Tonträgermarkt, der sich immer mehr den Gesetzen des kommerziellen Erfolges auslieferte, veröffentlichte er immer wieder Platten von geradezu bewundernswerter Konstanz und Konsequenz. Doch fast noch wertvoller einzuschätzen sind seine Verdienste um die Ausbildung talentierter Jazzmusiker. 1974 gründete Joe Haider in München die Munich Jazz School, von 1984 bis 1995 leitete er in seiner Schweizer Wahlheimat die Swiss Jazz School in Bern. Überall scharte er eine Unzahl talentierter Musiker um sich, um ihnen beizubringen, was er von anderen gelernt hatte.

Artist(s)

Joe Haider (piano)

Joe Haider is a cantankerous personality of the European jazz world. If our listen to him speak, you are confronted with deep Swabian dialect, but if you can hear him play, with a profound swing. This music and the associated feeling of dazzling freedom have accompanied him during his whole life, ever since the surprised boy was lifted by a GI onto a tank in the days after the end of WWII and was brought into contact with chocolate, music and the American way of life. Even if the modern, hard bop, blues and even a pinch of soul have influenced his style over the decades, the now 82-year-old pianist and Swiss national by choice from Darmstadt, who was active...
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Joe Haider is a cantankerous personality of the European jazz world. If our listen to him speak, you are confronted with deep Swabian dialect, but if you can hear him play, with a profound swing. This music and the associated feeling of dazzling freedom have accompanied him during his whole life, ever since the surprised boy was lifted by a GI onto a tank in the days after the end of WWII and was brought into contact with chocolate, music and the American way of life. Even if the modern, hard bop, blues and even a pinch of soul have influenced his style over the decades, the now 82-year-old pianist and Swiss national by choice from Darmstadt, who was active in Stuttgart and Munich for a long time, continues with his special blend of rhythmic presence and matter-of-factness rooted in tradition.

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Dominic Egli (drums)

Heinz von Herrmann (saxophone)

Daniel Noesig (trumpet)

Stefen 'Pista' Bartus (double bass)'>Stefen 'Pista' Bartus (double bass)

Composer(s)

Joe Haider (piano)

Joe Haider is a cantankerous personality of the European jazz world. If our listen to him speak, you are confronted with deep Swabian dialect, but if you can hear him play, with a profound swing. This music and the associated feeling of dazzling freedom have accompanied him during his whole life, ever since the surprised boy was lifted by a GI onto a tank in the days after the end of WWII and was brought into contact with chocolate, music and the American way of life. Even if the modern, hard bop, blues and even a pinch of soul have influenced his style over the decades, the now 82-year-old pianist and Swiss national by choice from Darmstadt, who was active...
more
Joe Haider is a cantankerous personality of the European jazz world. If our listen to him speak, you are confronted with deep Swabian dialect, but if you can hear him play, with a profound swing. This music and the associated feeling of dazzling freedom have accompanied him during his whole life, ever since the surprised boy was lifted by a GI onto a tank in the days after the end of WWII and was brought into contact with chocolate, music and the American way of life. Even if the modern, hard bop, blues and even a pinch of soul have influenced his style over the decades, the now 82-year-old pianist and Swiss national by choice from Darmstadt, who was active in Stuttgart and Munich for a long time, continues with his special blend of rhythmic presence and matter-of-factness rooted in tradition.

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Heinz von Herrmann (saxophone)

Press

... A continuation would be desirable: After all, there are not so many left who can or want to celebrate the timeless mid-century aesthetics of jazz as perfectly as Joe Haider.  
Rondo, 18-6-2022

... And Haider sits in the middle of it all, completely in his element, when he distributes the solos, points the way with gestures and looks, and also sometimes makes a whimsical comment...
Donaukurier, 16-5-2022

From the first track, this album captivates with the crystalline playing technique of all band members, the chemistry, finesse, freedom and driven-ness of Joe Haider...
jazzfun, 13-5-2022

Jazz piano veteran Joe Haider (84 years young) brings the glow of the jazz tradition with his original compositions and lovingly peppy arrangements...
Concerto, 01-8-2022

... Strictly through-composed, but with enough space for the 5 colleagues who celebrate with him both as soloists and in the movement not quite an hour the sound of his life.
NaDasnn, 01-6-2022

... People still want to hear and see him, this dinosaur of the German jazz scene, he always manages to get tours going...
Jazzthing 06 2022, 27-5-2022

Nice music, no modernistic outings, just great listening music.
Rootstime, 10-5-2022

... Classical jazz that lives from the swinging playing of all actors, once again magnificently and elegantly driven by Dominic Egli on drums...  
Musikansich, 22-4-2022

Nice music, no modernist outings, just great listening music.
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