After Hours (Jazz)

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After hours
General information
Genre (s) jazz
founding 1999
Founding members
Stephan Abel
Hervé Jeanne
Lutz Krajenski
Matthias "Maze" Meusel

After Hours is a jazz , soul and blues formation from Hanover , consisting of Stephan Abel ( saxophone ), Hervé Jeanne ( double bass ), Lutz Krajenski ( Hammond organ , piano ) and Matthias “Maze” Meusel ( drums ) who have been around for 1999 exists.

After Hours' repertoire ranges from swing classics to Latin and bossa nova songs, jazz ballads and well-known pop and soul compositions.

The quartet around the saxophonist Stephan Abel plays a mixture of jazz, blues and soul. After Hours appears either as a quartet or together with singers, for example Ken Norris , Ron Ringwood or Cynthia Utterbach .

The collaboration with Roger Cicero came about in May 2004 when After Hours and Roger were invited to the jazz festival in Halberstadt . They knew each other from various other projects.

Due to excellent reviews and an enthusiastic audience, a CD was recorded with this line-up. The CD There I go was recorded on May 24, 2004, so to speak, under live conditions in the music club “Marlene” in Hanover , whereby almost no recordings had to be made twice. At the beginning of 2005 There I go was first released in-house, later it was published by Jazzsick / Edel Contraire.

Discography

  • 2003: After Hours - After Hours
  • 2005: Roger Cicero & After Hours - There I go

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A program was developed for this concert, the title of Herbie Hancock and Kurt Elling in addition to a Beatles composition ( I wanna hold your hand ), a groove version of the Lionel Hampton classic Red Top up to free jazz excursions in My favorite Things and a Dollar Brand anthem ( The Wedding ), for which Roger had even written his own text, and for which Roger stood out as an idiosyncratic arranger for most of the pieces. In the course of time, a few Prince songs were added, as Roger Cicero was an avowed Prince fan.