Katalógové číslo:
ACT9826-2
Autori:
Bix Beiderbecke, Echoes Of Swing
Interpreti:
Echoes Of Swing, Emile Parisien
line up:
Echoes of Swing :
Bernd Lhotzky / piano & musical director
Chris Hopkins / alto saxophone
Colin T. Dawson / cornet & trumpet
Oliver Mewes / drums
with
Shannon Barnett / trombone & vocals
Mulo Francel / c-melody saxophone & guitar
Pete York / drums, percussion & vocals
Henning Gailing / double bass
Special guest on Jazz Me Blues:
Emile Parisien / soprano saxophone
1 Intro Ol’ Man River ( ) 00:34
2 At The Jazz Band Ball ( Nick La Rocca / Larry Shields / Johnny Mercer, arr. by Bernd Lhotzky) 04:03
3 Everything That Was ( comp. & arr. by Mulo France) 05:44
4 I’m Coming Virginia ( Donald Heywood / Will Marion Cook, arr. by Bernd Lhotzky) 05:00
5 Thou Swell ( Richard Rodgers / Lorenz Hart, arr. by Chris Hopkins) 02:48
6 (Tango) In The Dark ( comp. & arr. by Mulo Francel based on Bix Beiderbecke) 06:07
7 At Children‘s Corner ( comp. & arr. by Bernd Lhotzky) 04:48
8 Happy Feet ( Milton Ager / Jack Yellen, arr. by Mulo Francel) 04:04
9 I’ll Be A Friend With Pleasure ( Maceo Pinkard, arr. by Chris Hopkins) 04:51
10 Nix Like Bix ( comp. & arr. by Shannon Barnett, based on Blue River)) 02:48
11 Singin’ The Blues ( Con Conrad / J. Russel Robinson / Joe Young / Sam Lewis, arr. by Colin T. Dawson) 04:00
12 The Boy From Davenport ( comp. & arr. by Chris Hopkins) 04:00
13 Jazz Me Blues ( Tom Delaney, arr. by Chris Hopkins) 05:43
14 Ol’ Man River ( Jerome Kern / Oscar Hammerstein II, arr. by Chris Hopkins) 05:43
This 2-CD set is a homage to a (often forgotten) legend and key figure in jazz. Besides Louis Armstrong, American jazz cornetist and pianist Leon Bismark “Bix” Beiderbecke was one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s. With his unusual purity of tone and a gift for improvisation, he helped to invent the jazz ballad style and hinted at what, in the 1950s, would become Cool jazz