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Artist:	TCHICAI-SCHWEIZER GROUP
Title:	Willi The Pig
Label:	ATAVISTIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ALP 210CD

"A tremendous live quartet concert, recorded at the first Willisau Jazz Festival in Switzerland in 1975, Willi The Pig features a smoking lineup of Swiss master pianist Irene Schweizer (one of the foundering figures of free music in Europe), elemental Danish saxophonist John Tchicai (who co-led the New York Contemporary Five and recorded with Albert Ayler and John Coltrane), German bassist Buschi Niebergall (who appeared on Peter Brötzmann's Nipples), and South African drummer Makaya Ntshoko. First released in a hand-silkscreened batch of 500, to commemorate the Swiss festival, this LP has been out of print basically since it was issued, and remains one of the rarest LPs of '70s free jazz. This reissue reproduces the lovely cover, designed by Willisau chief Nicklaus Troxler, in all its shocking pink and silver glory."

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