The Magnificent 8:
FROM HOT TO SWING


	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

01	Bugle Call Rag Elmer Schoebel / Jack Pettis / Billy Meyers	3:21
02	'Deed I Do Fred Rose / Walter Hirsch	2:37
03	After Awhile Benny Goodman / Bud Freeman	4:25
04	The Man I Love George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin	4:03
05	Up In The Blues Freddie Green	3:45
06	Hesitating Blues W.C. Handy	3:25
07	I Hope Gabriel Likes My Music Dave Franklin	4:00
08	Medley:	5:19
08a	Wherever There's Love Eddie Condon / John DeVries
08b	Rockin' Chair Hoagy Carmichael
09	Blue Lester Lester Young	5:16
10	I'm Coming Virginia Donald Heywood / Will Marion Cook	3:23
11	A Shine On Your Shoes Arthur Schwartz / Howard Dietz	3:40
12	Let's Pretend There's A Moon Russ Columbo / Grace Hamilton / Jack Stern	4:44
13	Doggin' Around Edgar William Battle / Herschel Evans	3:52
14	Immigration 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: 20.00 EUR