COLORS 1976 - Eberhard Weber / Charlie Mariano Quartet

Eberhard Weber electric 5 string doublebass; Charlie Mariano soprano sax/flutes/nagaswaram; Rainer Brüninghaus piano/keyboards; Jon Christensen drums 00:00 Sand-Glass (E. Weber) 20:26 Yellow Field (E. Weber) 34:54 Short interview with Weber and Mariano Terje Mosnes interviews Eberhard Weber and Charlie Mariano after the concert about improvisation, band name, special bass, nagaswaram etc. The group Colors, a leading exponent of jazz music which has been called by some critics "the new European chamber jazz". The repertoire includes two compositions by Eberhard Weber: "Sand-Glass" and "Yellow Fields". The quartet consists of the German bassist Eberhard Weber, his compatriot Rainer Brüninghaus, piano / keyboard instruments, the American saxophonist Charlie Mariano, who can also be heard on flutes and an Indian instrument called nagaswaram, and Jon Christensen, Norwegian drummer with an increasingly solid international reputation. Venue: Molde Kino. Recording date: August 3, 1976