Big Band Liechtenstein

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Big Band Liechtenstein
General information
Genre (s) jazz
founding 1983
Website http://www.bigbandliechtenstein.li/
Current occupation
Benno Marxer
Phil Dold
Christof Becker
Helmut Wetschko
Philipp Zünd
Armin Hoop, Jürgen Kranz, Marco Oberholzer, Tim Walter
Thomas Burgstaller, Jürg Kaufmann-Custer, Hubert Noser
Brian Marxer
Marcello Pellin, Robert Tanner
Martin Büchel, Philipp Büchel
Karl Marxer

The Big Band Liechtenstein is a big band from the Principality of Liechtenstein that is primarily dedicated to contemporary big band jazz. Benno Marxer is still the band leader today.

history

The foundation stone for today's Big Band Liechtenstein was laid in 1983. Benno Marxer worked as a teacher at the Liechtenstein Music School and, on his own initiative, put together an ensemble in a classical big band line-up, mainly from students from the music school. A name was quickly found, as the ensemble of the Liechtenstein Music School, the band was quickly given the name LMS Big Band , under which the first appearances were soon made. Under the direction of Benno Marxer, the band continued to develop, so that in 1987 the first long-playing record was recorded. The LMS Big Band received active support from the Swedish trumpeter Lennart Axelsson , who at the time had made a name for himself as the lead trumpeter of the big band of the Swiss radio DRS, James Last and the NDR Bigband . In 1991 another album was released on CD under the title “Does it all” .

The tenth anniversary was celebrated in 1993 with a special concert, at which the band performed with the well-known singer and entertainer Bill Ramsey . On the occasion of this anniversary, the name was also changed to Big Band Liechtenstein , which was intended to underline the separation from the music school. Because in the general public the band was still mostly regarded as a school band. The level they had reached in the meantime was demonstrated by the Liechtenstein Big Band two years later at the 1st Swiss Big Band Competition , where they ranked third as the best amateur band behind the two professional bands Swiss Big Band Eruption and Peter Eigenmann Big Band . From this competition, in which u. a. Billy Cobham was a member of the jury, which resulted in two engagements at the renowned Montreux Jazz Festival in 1997 and 1998. In autumn 1998 the band went on tour for a week as part of a cultural program and during this time toured Austria , the Czech Republic and Hungary . Four live records followed between 1995 and 2011, before the band returned to the recording studio for the first time in over ten years in November 2012, where the album Hot Pot was recorded, which was released on October 31, 2013 for the band's 30th anniversary .

In the meantime, the Liechtenstein Big Band has made a name for itself beyond national borders, and in the past there have been collaborations and concerts with jazz musicians such as Peter Herbolzheimer , Jiggs Whigham , Bob Mintzer and James Morrison . The Big Band Liechtenstein has performed several times with Morrison in Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany and Switzerland.

Until today the band consists of amateur musicians with a few exceptions.

style

The music style of the Big Band Liechtenstein is less based on traditional swing big bands like Benny Goodman or Duke Ellington , but rather corresponds to modern big band jazz. Arrangements by Les Hooper, Sammy Nestico , Gordon Goodwin , Peter Herbolzheimer , Alan Baylock, Frank Mantooth , James Morrison and many more can be found in the repertoire. The styles range from swing to funk to hip-hop and Latin .

Discography

  • LMS Big Band with Lennart Axelsson (1987)
  • Does It All (1991)
  • Big Band Liechtenstein live (1995)
  • Alive (1998)
  • Voyage (2003)
  • A Few Good Men (2011)
  • Hot Pot (2013)

swell

  1. ↑ soniclab.ch: Big Band Liechtenstein
  2. ^ "Jazz isch": Gentle melting and ingenious groove - News Mindelheim - Augsburger Allgemeine
  3. ^ A b Big Band Liechtenstein: LMS Big Band Does It All / Alive

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