Legendary and in demand Modern/ Modal/ Hard Bop Jazz album from Germany and among the true holy grail of European LPs, produced 1969. First recordings by the internationally awarded pianist Walter Strerath with trio, quartet and quintet, incl. Hans Thomas/ trumpet-fluegelhorn and Christian Lindner/ saxes, originally released in a very small edition of a few hundred copies only on the tiny “jazz groove” label. Impossible to find monument of a rare "Coltranish" jazz LP from Germany. Modern Jazz will never die and it doesn`t smell funny anymore: The original vinyl pressing of „Walter Strerath – Trio Quartet Quintet“ reached the highest amounts of all sold records in December 2008 on ebay.com, in third place and priced at 3.000$ behind two vintage albums of the Beatles and Pink Floyd. For many years the biggest international jazz collectors have tried to hunt down this first album by a commonly unknown (and nearly forgotten) jazz pianist from the small German village named Odenkirchen. The original album was manufactured in a tiny edition of approx. 200 copies only and is impossible to find nowadays. The unique LP contains 100% of self penned tunes and stands out as some brilliant Coltranish styled jazz from Europe, some dare to... more credits released September 9, 2009 The recorded tunes on this album were composed by Walter Strerath, Andreas Scheel and Hans Thomas. Recorded May 4, 15 and 26, 1969 in Iserlohn/ Germany Walter Strerath: piano, Hans Thomas: trumpet and fluege