Albert Golowin

Friedrich Gulda & Albert Golowin – Donau so Blue (1970/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 39:07 minutes | 700 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © MPS Classical

The title piece, „Donau So Blue“, is a blues on which Austrian pianist-composer Friedrich Gulda (1930-2000) is accompanied by two seasoned jazz musicians: Hans Rettenbacher on bass and Manfred Josel on drums. Gulda felt himself to be an outsider in the jazz world. He was a renowned Mozart and Beethoven interpreter, but did not want to be tied down to the world of classical music. And who was the singer Albert Golowin? Gulda describes him as “a dropout, a certain type of Viennese, a highly talented dilettante, a bungled baritone with an aversion to the concert hall.” Actually, Golowin was a pseudonym that Gulda used for singing performances. The pianist was celebrated as brilliant and criticized as infant terrible. Often, Gulda would not stick to the announced program; once he performed playing the recorder naked.

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