Volker Kriegel & Friends - Live At Berlin Jazz Days'81

5 stars for the late great Jazz guitarist & for fans of Eberhard Weber and Euro-Jazz
Volker Kriegel (24 December 1943-15 June 2003) was a German jazz guitarist and composer born in Darmstadt, Germany, perhaps most noteworthy for his contributions to the European jazz rock genre and for his collaborations with the American vibraphonist Dave Pike. In 1975 he was a founding member of the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble.

Quite simply I was amazed at this stage of the game, 10 years after his passing, that there would ever be much more music seen here in the USA from Kriegel- most of his music is available simply as imports. In fact much of his music is actually out-of-print currently in Europe.
So to ever expect to see an official DVD release of this overlooked German jazz guitarist in this country was far too much to ever expect. But here it is all the same. And at a price that one simply cannot argue with.
As of right now (March 2013) there's not a whole bunch of info on the contents here, but I did notice it listed as having 2 discs, so I was very...





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