CD

The Magnificent 8:
FROM HOT TO SWING

*A one-of-a-kind Dream Band*

Bald ausverkauft, Versand noch so lange Vorrat reicht.
Menno Daams (trumpet)
Dick Sleemann (trombone)
John Barnes (alto sax, baritone sax, clarinet, vocals)
Frank Roberscheuten (tenor sax, alto sax, clarinet)
Chris Hopkins (piano)
Rudolf 'Pluto' Kemper (guitar)
Nico Gastreich (bass)
Moritz Gastreich (drums) 

EigenProd: Nico Gastreich 102004

01Bugle Call Rag
Elmer Schoebel / Jack Pettis / Billy Meyers		3:21
02'Deed I Do
Fred Rose / Walter Hirsch		2:37
03After Awhile
Benny Goodman / Bud Freeman		4:25
04The Man I Love
George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin		4:03
05Up In The Blues
Freddie Green		3:45
06Hesitating Blues
W.C. Handy		3:25
07I Hope Gabriel Likes My Music
Dave Franklin		4:00
08Medley:
5:19
08aWherever There's Love
Eddie Condon / John DeVries
08bRockin' Chair
Hoagy Carmichael
09Blue Lester
Lester Young		5:16
10I'm Coming Virginia
Donald Heywood / Will Marion Cook		3:23
11A Shine On Your Shoes
Arthur Schwartz / Howard Dietz		3:40
12Let's Pretend There's A Moon
Russ Columbo / Grace Hamilton / Jack Stern		4:44
13Doggin' Around
Edgar William Battle / Herschel Evans		3:52
14Immigration Blues
Edward 'Duke' Ellington		4:19


>There is surely hardly a jazz musician who hasn't dreamt at least once in his life of a band which he could put together instrumentally as his fancy takes him' with which he would have toured successfully' and - last but not least - have recorded at least one CD. Sometimes such an idea has to remain a dream - for various reasons. But - and jazz history gives us here numerous examples - there are also those fortuitous moments in which the conception of an ideal team of musicians and a programme tailor-made for that team are realized.

That's what happened in the case of the initiator of the CD presented here, Nico Gastreich, who was able to fulfil a long-kept dream. The selection of his colleagues was of course no stab in the dark - all the musicians know each other through their participation in many performances in different groups, and all of them are united by their jazz- musical creed in the spirit of Duke Ellington:
It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing.<
Gerhard Hopfe



Total Duration: 56:11


Price: 30.00 EUR