Showing posts with label Wolfgang Schmid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wolfgang Schmid. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Passport: Second Passport (1972)

One could suggest that the names Klaus Doldinger & Passport could be synonymous, for they really are one and the same. The driving force behind the group Passport, for almost four decades now has been Klaus Doldinger. We now add 8 more titles to our already extensive Passport catalog. All of these titles are making their U.S. CD debuts, being only available as high price import CDs if you can find them.
Tracklist:1. Mandragora - 3:50
2. Nexus - 5:29
3. Fairy Tale - 7:39
4. Get Yourself A Second Passport - 4:06
5. Registration O - 9:30
6. Horizon Beyond - 6:52
7. The Cat From Katmandu - 4:45
All titles composed and produced by Klaus Doldinfer, except "Fairy Tale" (trad./adpt. by Klaus Doldinfer)
Personnel:- Klaus Doldinger - soprano & tenor saxes, electric piano, synthesizer
- John Mealing - electric piano, organ
- Wolfgang Schmidt - bass, electric guitar
- Bryan Spring - drums
Second Passport
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Passport: Iguacu (1977)

Reissue and first U.S. release of the German jazz-fusion groups 1977 album that made the Billboard top LP charts. The leader of Passport, Klaus Doldinger worked with Donald Byrd and Kenny Clarke early in his career.
Tracklist:
1. Bahia do sol (5:53)
2. Aguamarinha (4:10)
3. Bird of paradise (5:36)
4. Sambukada (4:30)
5. Iguacu (8:42)
6. Praia lame (2:58)
7. Heavy weight (4:30)
8. Guna Guna (4:28)
Personnel:
Curt Cress - drums, berimbau
Klaus Doldinger - soprano & tenor saxes, organ, Moog, flute
Elmer Louis - percussion
Roy Louis - electric guitar
Wolfgang Schmid - bass
Guest musicians:
Mats Bjorklund - guitar (8)
Wilson Das Neves - atapaques, pandeiro (4)
Roberto Bastos Pinheiro - surdo (4)
Noel Manuel Pinto - cuica (3-4)
Clelio Ribeiro - berimbau (4)
Marcello Salazar - percussion (4)
Pedro Santos - percussion, whistles (3-4)
Iguacu
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