Generations of Jazz

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Generations of Jazz
Studio album by Till Brönner

Publication
(s)

1994

Label (s) Minor Music

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

jazz

Title (number)

11

occupation
chronology
- Generations of Jazz My Secret Love

Generations of Jazz is Till Brönner's debut album , released in 1994 on Minor Records. On the album, along with Brönner, alto saxophonist Gregoire Peters and pianist Frank Chastenier play drums with American jazz veteran Ray Brown and Jeff Hamilton .

In addition to jazz standards such as Bye Bye Blackbird , the album mainly contains compositions by Brönner that are oriented towards classic mainstream hardbop and West Coast jazz . He said about the album: ... that's why it would be a record that you could listen to in your car, maybe on Highway 1, the coastal road in California on the way down south.

Album title

  1. Dejection blues
  2. Ku'Damm 1:30 AM
  3. Smile
  4. Samba Per La Gamba
  5. Bein 'Green
  6. Why Change
  7. Linaäs Waltz
  8. I Want To Be Happy ( Irving Caesar / Vincent Youmans )
  9. Bye Bye Blackbird ( Mort Dixon / Ray Henderson )
  10. Piccolo blues
  11. This One's For Francis

reception

The album was awarded both the German Record Critics' Prize and the German Record Industry Prize.

Scott Yanow wrote about the album on Allmusic :

“This well-rounded set includes standards and a few originals, of which the heated" Ku 'Damm 1:30 AM "(which uses the main chord sequence of" King Porter Stomp ") and the heated" Why Change "are the most memorable. "

"This well-rounded set includes standards and a few originals, of which the heated" Ku 'Damm 1:30 AM "(which uses the main chord progression from King Porter Stomp ) and the heated" Why Change "are the most memorable."

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Review: Till Brönner: Talking Jazz. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 29, 2013 ; Retrieved October 26, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.linkezeitung.de
  2. ↑ Till Brönner - Bio. Retrieved October 26, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Till Brönner Generations of Jazz, Review by Scott Yanow. Retrieved October 26, 2013 .