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Artist:	PREHN, TOM
Title:	Tom Prehn Quartet
Label:	ATAVISTIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ALP 221CD

"Even for very informed fans of avant-garde jazz, Denmark is an awfully remote spot on the map. Among the most interesting (and the most unduly obscure) of the Danish musicians of the period is pianist Tom Prehn. The music on this record is startlingly original. When it was released, Tom Prehn Quartet garnered critical attention in the major Danish press, but it didn't manage to make much impact too far outside of its homeland. Nevertheless, decades later it is still a remarkable document, effectively merging jazz energy with characteristics that wouldn't fully emerge in European free music until later in its development. This is original free music of the highest calibre, quite far ahead (or maybe outside) of its time. Certain elements come from the realm of composed music. Indeed, in '67, on the verge of formally finishing his studies, Prehn took lessons in composition from Earle Brown and Witold Lutoslawski, and the importance of the modernist tradition makes itself heard, particularly on Prehn's highly unusual rhythmic study 'Modus Vivendi.' The message of Århus, 1967: four joyous cartographers boldly charting new landscapes, leaving behind a document that should force free music aficionados to rethink familiar maps 34-years later." -- John Corbett.

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