Six Little Pieces For Quintet

1. Medium, freies Tempo

2. Medium, ruhig

3. rasche Achtel

4. schnelle Triolen

5. forsches Legato

6. langsam

Axel Dörner, trumpet

Rudi Mahall, bass Clarinet

Sten Sandell, piano

Matthias Bauer, double bass

Sven-Åke Johansson, drums

Free Jazz at Millenium's end: a historical idiom, sure enough. Subjekt of musicological analysis and historical research, of post-revolutionary nostalgia. of discographical reissues, even of revivalism.... But why leave retrospection to others? Sven-Åke Johansson has decided to takes a look back at the Sixties himself, to re-investingate the time when free jazz was still very much jazz...."Early free jazz on period instruments"? In a way, yes. Of course, Sven-Åke Johansson plays his Slingerland drum set.

Peter Niklas Wilson

all compositions by Sven-Åke Johansson, Tuhtha Publishing/SUISA

A production of Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln, Recorded at Sendesaal WDR Köln 1999

Liner Notes by Peter Niklas Wilson