NDR Jazz Workshop – Hamburg, Germany 1973

Album by Soft Machine

NDR Jazz Workshop – Hamburg, Germany 1973 is a live album by English jazz-rock band Soft Machine, released in 1973. The recording captures the group's shift into jazz fusion and progressive instrumental music, emphasising extended improvisation, complex rhythms and electric keyboard-driven textures, and documents a transitional phase in their career as they moved away from earlier psychedelic and rock influences towards more experimental jazz forms.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Part I: Fanfare
    0:47
  2. 2.
    Part I: All White
    3:37
  3. 3.
    Part I: Link 1 / Link 2
    5:04
  4. 4.
    Part I: 37½
    6:31
  5. 5.
    Part I: Link 3
    0:46
  6. 6.
    Part I: Riff
    3:50
  7. 7.
    Part II: Down the Road
    10:41
  8. 8.
    Part II: Link 3a
    1:00
  9. 9.
    Part II: Stanley Stamp’s Gibbon Album
    4:46
  10. 10.
    Part II: Chloe and the Pirates
    8:33
  11. 11.
    Part II: Gesolreut
    11:48
  12. 12.
    Part II: E.P.V.
    3:33
  13. 13.
    Part II: Link 4
    3:37
  14. 14.
    Part II: Stumble
    6:55
  15. 15.
    Part II: One Across
    6:09
  16. 16.
    Part II: Riff II
    1:07

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Fanfare
    0:48
  2. 3.
    All White
    3:38
  3. 4.
    Link 1
    2:34
  4. 5.
    The Soft Weed Factor
    6:19
  5. 6.
    Link 2
    2:33
  6. 7.
    37½
    6:31
  7. 8.
    Link 3
    0:47
  8. 9.
    Riff
    3:51
  9. 10.
    Stanley Stamp’s Gibbon Album
    4:47
  10. 11.
    Chloe and the Pirates
    8:34
  11. 12.
    Gesolreut
    11:48
  12. 13.
    E.P.V.
    3:34
  13. 14.
    Link 4
    3:34
  14. 15.
    Stumble
    6:56
  15. 16.
    One Across
    6:10
  16. 17.
    Riff II
    1:08
  17. 18.
    1983
    15:33
  18. 19.
    Encore Improvisation / Stumble (reprise)
    10:51

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