Machine Gun is the second album by jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 saxophonist Peter Brötzmann

Peter Brötzmann

Peter Brötzmann is a German artist and free jazz saxophonist and clarinetist.Brötzmann is among the most important European free jazz musicians. His rough, lyrical timbre is easily recognized on his many recordings.-Early life:...

, released on the Bro label in 1968, later reissued on the FMP

FMP (Free Music Production)

Free Music Production is a German record label founded by Jost Gebers, Peter Brötzmann, Peter Kowald, and Alexander von Schlippenbach in 1969, specializing in free improvisation and free jazz, usually by European, often German musicians....

 label in 1971. In 1990 FMP issued the album on CD, adding two previously unreleased alternate takes. In 2007, Atavistic Records

Atavistic Records

Atavistic Records is an American rock and jazz record label based in Chicago, Illinois, known particularly for its No Wave and free jazz recordings. It has released albums by Glenn Branca, Nels Cline, Lydia Lunch, Peter Brötzmann, various Ken Vandermark projects, Pinetop Seven, Swans, Elliott...

 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.

Track listing

1. "Machine Gun" (Second Take) - Brotzmann.
2. "Machine Gun" (Third Take) - Brotzmann.
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
  Peter Brötzmann
  Peter Brötzmann is a German artist and free jazz saxophonist and clarinetist.Brötzmann is among the most important European free jazz musicians. His rough, lyrical timbre is easily recognized on his many recordings.-Early life:...
  
   (tenor and baritone saxophones)
• Evan Parker
  Evan Parker
  Evan Shaw Parker is a British free-improvising saxophone player from the European free jazz scene.Recording and performing prolifically with many collaborators, Parker was a pivotal figure in the development of European free jazz and free improvisation, and has pioneered or substantially expanded...
  
   (saxophone)
• Willem Breuker
  Willem Breuker
  Willem Breuker was a Dutch jazz bandleader, composer, arranger, saxophonist, and bass clarinetist....
  
   (reeds)
• Peter Kowald
  Peter Kowald
  Peter Kowald was a German free jazz musician.A member of the Globe Unity Orchestra, and a touring double-bass player, Kowald collaborated with a large number of European free jazz and American free-jazz players during his career, including Peter Brötzmann, Irène Schweizer, Karl Berger, Fred...
  
   (bass)
• Buschi Niebergall
  Buschi Niebergall
  Buschi Niebergall was a German free jazz musician. His given name was Hans-Helmut, and late in life, his friends called him Johannes....
  
   (bass)
• Sven-Åke Johansson
  Sven-Åke Johansson
  Sven-Åke Johansson is a Swedish drummer and composer associated with free jazz and free improvisation. He was in the Globe Unity Orchestra and played with German reedist Alfred Harth and Belgian pianist Nicole Van den Plas in E.M.T..- External links :*...
  
   (drums)
• Han Bennink
  Han Bennink
  Han Bennink is a Dutch jazz drummer and percussionist. On occasion his recordings have featured his playing on clarinet, violin, banjo and piano....
  
   (drums)
• Fred Van Hove
  Fred Van Hove
  Fred Van Hove is a Belgian jazz musician and a pioneer of European free jazz. He is a pianist, accordionist, church organist, and carillonist, an improviser and a composer...
  
  (piano)