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Volker Kriegel

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In my opinion, Volker Kriegel ranks right up with the most adaptive, forward-thinking Jazz musicians in Europe. He, along with Terje Rypdal, Klaus Doldinger, Mike Ratledge, Jon Hiseman, Ian Carr, Jósef Skrzek, Pekka Pohjola, Dave Stewart, Jukka Tolonen, Chris Hinze, Michal Urbaniak, Corrado Rustici, Demetrio Stratos, and Jan Garbarek (among others), should be credited with Europe's ability to continually rise to the level of quality and innovative Jazz-Rock Fusion that American bands, promoters, and record labels were producing. DOLDINGER Goes On (1967) Recorded March 17th and 18th, 1967, at Rhenus-Studio, Godorf/Köln, and then released in May of 1967.  Line-up / Musicians: - Klaus Doldinger / saxophones [tenor & soprano], composer - Cees See / drums - Peter Trunk / double bass With: - Volker Kriegel / guitars (A1, A3, B1 to B4) - Helmut Kandlberger / bass guitar (A1, B3, B4), double bass (A2, A3, B1, B2) - Ingfried Hoffmann / organ (A1, A3, B2 to B4), piano (A2, A4, B1) - Fat...
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Jazz's Greatest Hits of the 1960s

"Take Five" - The Dave Brubeck Quartet (Paul Desmond) (1959-61) "My Favorite Things" - John Coltrane (1961)  "Stolen Moments" - Oliver Nelson (1961) "One Mint Julep" - Ray Charles (R. Toombs) (1961) "Unsquare Dance" - The Dave Brubeck Quartet (1961) "African Waltz" - Julian "Cannonball" Adderley (1961/2) "The Lonely Bull" - Herb Alpert (1962) "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" - Vince Guaraldi (1962) "Watermelon Man" - Herbie Hancock (1962) "Soul Bassa Nova" - Quincy Jones (1962) "Desafinado" - Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd (1962) "The Stripper" - David Rose & His Orchestra (1962) "Stranger on the Shore" - Acker Bilk (1962) "Watermelon Man" - Mongo Santamaria (via Herbie Hancock) (1963) "The Pink Panther Theme" - Henry Mancini (1963) "Wives & Lovers" - Jack Jones (Bacharach/David) (1963) "Yeh, Yeh" - Mongo S...
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Jon Hiseman

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Drummer Jon Hiseman was born in 1944 to an artistic family in the southeastern London burg of Woolwich. In the Addey and Stanhope School (progressive, rare co-educational school) he met David Greenslade and Tony Reeves, with whom he formed a jazz trio.  In the early 1960s, Hiseman played with Neil Ardley, with whom he and Tony Reeves helped found the New Jazz Orchestra (where he met his life-long partner and wife, saxophonist/composer Barbara Thompson). In 1966, he replaced Ginger Baker in the Graham Bond Organisation, where he met Dick Heckstall-Smith (as well as one of Britain's first Mellotrons). He also played for a brief spell with Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames.  In 1968 he and Tony Reeves left to join  Heckstall-Smith in  John Mayall's Bluesbreakers where they participated in the April recording sessions that would result in the album Bare Wires  before This is where he and Heckstall-Smith met trumpet  Henry Lowther, who would c...
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