Back at last: Probably the best Jazz & Poetry panel ever!

The LP with these recordings I have, since December 1964. It is here - I am not exaggerating certainly - a unique masterpiece, which appeared in the PHILIPS twen series. The speaker Gert Westphal (1920 - 2002), the "King of the Reader", and the musicians of the Attila Zoller quartet (Attila Zoller, guitar; Emil Mangelsdorff, flute, clarinet, alto saxophone; Peter Trunk, bass; Klaus Weiss, percussion ) correspond in a wonderful manner. "Beat the drum and do not be afraid, / and kiss the Marketenderin! / That's all science, / that's the books deepest sense. "Chanted Westphal and Klaus Weiss drums to the matching figures. And if Westphal "But hark! schollernd a vile sound / Sounds far from the barren stage ... "recites the splendid Trunk (1936 - 1973) provides a matching solo on his sonorous bass. Zoller and his fellow musicians create a flamenco jazz mood in style of Miles Davis / Gil Evans ("Sketches of Spain") and John Coltrane ("Olé Coltrane") to Heine's "Donna Clara": "In the gazebo there is silent , / And you can hear just how stealthily, / The whispers clever myrtles / And the flowers breath. / But timpani and trumpets / Schallen suddenly out of the castle, / And awakening has Clara / pulled from the knight's arm. "Praise must be donated not only the speakers and musicians, but also the director Joachim-Ernst Berendt. Berendt, who later drifted unfortunately in esoteric muttering, has a very sure hand proved here. It is very nice that these little treasures are now re-appeared on CD. And it is very gratifying that the original cover, though reduced, is to be seen again. My urgent advice: Buy it now, before this piece will disappear!