# CD review: Hal Galper Quintet – Live at the Berlin Philharmonic, 1977 – 2021: Video, CD cover

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2021/01/16/cd-review-hal-galper-quintet-live-at-the-berlin-philharmonic-1977-2021-video-cd-cover/
- Published: 2021-01-16T14:53:42+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**Captured during a pivotal, trailblazing period of his five decade career, pianist
Hal Galper had come off the road with the Cannonball Adderly Quintet looking to 
establish his new working band. **

Pulling in Michael & Randy Brecker, who he had recorded & worked with in the early’
70s, along with bassist Wayne Dockery and drummer Bob Moses, Galper set up Sunday
matinees at NY’s Sweet Basil jazz club for a year to woodshed the group concept 
and new compositions. In the studio, 1977’s ‘Reach Out’ displayed an astonishingly
original collective, all matching Galper’s chance-taking, high-spirited, free-wheeling
approach to music making. 1979’s ‘Speak With a Single Voice’ captured the energy
of the quintet live, but on this 1977 Berlin Jazz Festival performance, the band
shifts into an other-worldly overdrive.

From the opening salvos of Galper’s ‘Now Here This,’ the mission is defined – jazz
giants, in the prime of their youth, set free to blow, pushed to the limits by Galper’s
facility, full-bodied sound, and fertile imagination.

1. Now Hear This (Live) (13:59)
 2. Speak with a Single Voice (Live) (24:37) 3. 
I’ll Never Stop Loving You (Live) (12:57) 4. Triple Play (Live) (14:04) 5. This 
Is the Thing (Live) (12:33) 6. Hey Fool (Live) (9:31)

**Hal Galper – piano**
 **Randy Brecker – trumpet, flugelhorn** **Michael Brecker–
tenor saxophone** **Wayne Dockery – bass** **Bob Moses – drums**

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