Artist: Bosko Petrovic’s Nonconvertible All Stars
Album: Swinging East (Recorded Live At the Berlin Jazz Festival)
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 1973/2015
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24bit, 88,2 kHz
Duration: 46:49
Total Tracks: 3
Total Size: 892 MB

Tracklist:

1. Bosko Petrovic’s Nonconvertible All Stars – Balkan Blues (Live) (14:59)
2. Bosko Petrovic’s Nonconvertible All Stars – Sigo’s Garden (Live) (10:40)
3. Bosko Petrovic’s Nonconvertible All Stars – With Pain I Was Born (Live) (21:09)

Download:

Recorded Live at the 1971 Berlin Jazz Festival, Swinging East is testimony to jazz’s ability to cross over international boundaries. Representing various Communist Bloc countries, the musicians were all-stars in their own lands, and three of the players, Croatia’s Bosco Petrovic, Polish violinist Michal Urbaniak, and Hungarian bassist Aladar Pege, gained international fame. Czech flutist Jiří Stivín and Polish violinist Zbigniew Seifert were originally billed for this unique concert but due to difficulties with the officials in their countries they couldn’t travel to Berlin.Based on a melody from the Kolo, an old Serbian folk dance, Balkan Blues starts off in 7/4 then swings into a slow blues with emotive solos, and Pege’s virtuoso bowed bass. There’s a Latin and funk feel to Sigo’s Garden, with fine flute solos and Bosco’s warm marimba play. Based on an Estonian folk song, With Pain I was Born to Live fluctuates between a 7/4 and 4/4, with a beautiful section in which Bosco improvises on the tarabrooka, a traditional Macedonian drum, accompanying a short flute solo that captures the timeless Balkan soul. A fascinating mix of jazz and East European folk.