Machine Gun (Peter Brötzmann album)

Machine Gun
Studio album by Peter Brötzmann
Recorded	May 1968
Genre	Free jazz, avant-garde jazz
Label	FMP
Producer	Jost Gebers
Peter Brötzmann chronology
For Adolphe Sax (1967) Machine Gun (1968) Nipples (1969)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Penguin Guide to Jazz	[2]

Machine Gun is the second album by jazz saxophonist Peter Brötzmann, released on the Bro label in 1968, later reissued on the FMP label in 1971. In 1990 FMP issued the album on CD, adding two previously unreleased alternate takes. In 2007, Atavistic Records reissued the album again as The Complete Machine Gun Sessions, adding the only live recording of the title piece (previously issued on the Fuck DeBoere CD). In 2011 the label Slowboy reissued the first studio take again on vinyl in tip-on style cover with 3 color silkscreen.

Reception

The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the release four out of four stars and placed it in its "core collection" of jazz albums. The review states that while "the recording is crude," the three saxophonists "fire off a ceaseless round of blasting," resulting in "fearsome power."^[2]

Track listing

Original release

1991 Re-release

1. "Machine Gun" (Second Take) – Brötzmann
2. "Machine Gun" (Third Take) – Brötzmann
3. "Responsible" (First Take) – Van de Ven, Van Hove
4. "Responsible" (Second Take) – Van de Ven, Van Hove
5. "Music for Han Bennink" – Breuker

Personnel

• Peter Brötzmann (tenor and baritone saxophones)
• Evan Parker (saxophone)
• Willem Breuker (reeds)
• Peter Kowald (bass)
• Buschi Niebergall (bass)
• Sven-Åke Johansson (drums)
• Han Bennink (drums)
• Fred Van Hove (piano)

Production

• Günther Zipelius (recording engineer)
• Jost Gebers (producer)

References