Peter Brotzmann (tenor & baritone saxophone), Willem Breuker (tenor saxophone & bass clarinet), Evan Parker (tenor saxophone), Gerd Dudek (tenor saxophone on track 6 only),
Fred Van Hove (piano), Peter Kowald (bass), Buschi Niebergall (bass), Han Bennink (drums), Sven-Ake Johansson (drums)
Machine Gun / Responsible (For Jan Van De Ven) / Music For Han Bennink / Machine Gun, Second Take / Responsible (For Jan Van De Ven) First Take / Machine Gun
Arguably the single most important landmark in European free music: The original BRO Records LP restored to its 1968 format, with TWO ALTERNATE TAKES, new liner notes by Brotzmann & John Corbett...
Plus the only live version of Machine Gun ever recorded- all in a deluxe package! "Brotzmann has said: "It was the feeling, the very naive feeling that we could
take a little part in changing the world." Adopting its title from Don Cherry's nickname for Brotzmann, Machine Gun translates the hilarious saxophonic power of the
jump blues and Illinois Jacquet's booting and hollering into an abstraction painted with a flame-thrower. Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore terms Machinegun "a smashing, clanging wonderland of noise". This album was a watershed - and even if it has taken four decades to find its appreciative audience, it is now an essential recording,
both in terms of the development of free music in Europe and taken on its own merits, outside of the context of its creation." - John Corbett, 2007
