More Modern Jazz From The Wewerka Archive 1966-1969 CD

The second volume in the series of findings from the legendary Wewerka archive. For this compilation, the Jazzanova collective and Stephan Steigleder descended even deeper into Wewerka's Munich vaults. As a result, the variety of the music is much wider than that on Volume One. This volume bears further testimony to the fact that only a percentage of the history of Jazz is known, that much of it still slumbers in archives and that there are a lot of secrets still to uncover-thanks to people like Hans Wewerka. Wewerka claims to have supervised more than 20,000 recording sessions. The focus has been switched to two main themes: soundtrack music (hence many of the short tunes) and Wewerka's forays behind the iron curtain. 'Blues 10', composed by Milcho Leview and played by the Bulgarian Jazz Quartet already had been released on the LP Jazz Focus '65, produced by Lippmann & Rau, legendary German concert promoters. Pavel Blatny even appeared on the critic's poll of the American jazz magazine Down Beat in 1966 and 1967. Erich Ferstl is known through his compositions for films during the 1960s and 1970s. He scored the music for, amongst others, the Peter Fleischmann movie 'Die Hamburger Krankheit' ('The Hamburg Disease') and the cartoon classic 'Die Konferenz der Tiere' (The Animals' Conference). Hans Posegga has composed soundtracks for several films by (in)famous German filmmaker Peter Schamoni. His music is known to 95% of all Germans due to the composition of the title theme of Germany's most popular TV-series for children 'Die Sendung mit der Maus'.