Money box trio
The Spardosen-Terzett is a jazz - chanson- trio from the Ruhr area that has existed since 1989 , which became known in the German-speaking area through bizarre German-language albums and through the collaboration with Wiglaf Droste , Ina Müller , Thomas Quasthoff , Stephan Sulke , August Zirner and others.
Band history
The three permanent band members have a jazz education. They made their first beginnings together as street musicians “out of whim” . The band name is borrowed from the name of a pub that happened to be nearby, “Die Spardose” in Essen . It will no longer be changed, it sounds so “beautifully weird” and it has already been introduced within a few months.
The appearance on stage was already characterized by a “dignified outfit” in suits in the early 1990s. As a combo, which first had to earn a reputation and mainly offered jazz standards, their livelihood was earned by booking Mugge for public and private celebrations, company anniversaries and, for example, the inauguration of the “Dorsten sewage treatment plant”. Invitations to jazz festivals also followed. The drummer of the first years, Mash Temme, left in the mid-1990s because he emigrated to La Palma ; Mickey Neher took his place.
In addition to numerous appearances in clubs and the media, including as a backing band to Wiglaf Droste, the money boxes often appear in the Grillo Theater in Essen with their own show “Neues aus Vogelheim” with comedians such as Fritz Eckenga . In the Munich publisher Antje Kunstmann were repeatedly literature and jazz -Tonträger published short stories by various authors and speakers, which include the money banks contributed the music.
Since 2008 the program “Diagnose: Jazz” has been performed with the flutist and actor August Zirner , in which the jazz musicians Thelonious Monk , Roland Kirk and Charles Mingus are the starting point for comical stories.
Current occupation:
- Rainer Lipski - guitar, saxophone, piano, vocals
- Kai Struwe - vocals, double bass, harmonica
- Mickey Neher - drums, vocals
Music and lyrics
Most of the pieces are based on humorous text and are composed by Kai Struwe. The trio takes care of the arrangements and other arrangements together. The music is based on the acoustic instruments jazz guitar , double bass , saxophone and piano . They expressly resist labeling it as a comedy act , “as if doing something funny always meant comedy”.
The title track from the 2006 album is self-deprecating and humorous about the fact that someone urgently needs to go somewhere in the car that they don't know their way around and that they have little success in asking passers-by for directions. The name allegedly denotes the Vogelheim district of Essen as well as the German transmission of the world-famous jazz standard Birdland by Joe Zawinul .
Other topics include topoi such as the discrimination of the blond man in South America or beach bars on the Steinhuder Meer with ironically broken reflections on life.
In keeping with Essen and the Ruhr area as the European Capital of Culture 2010 , the Spardosen-Terzett started the open music video project Glück auf, Ruhrgebiet . The text of the newly composed hymn Glück auf, Ruhrgebiet lovingly addresses the language and geographical localities of the Ruhr area and can be seen as a counterpoint to the lyrically complex lead song ( Come to the Ruhr by Herbert Grönemeyer ) at the opening event of the Capital of Culture.
Discography
- Evergreens and Jazz 1993
- Here you go 1998
- Forever 2000 (with Wiglaf Droste as singer)
- Leonce and Lena 2001
- Clouds draw 2002 (with Wiglaf Droste as singer)
- Concert 2004 (with Wiglaf Droste as singer)
- News from Vogelheim , Label Roofmusic 2006
- since you've been here in the world Kein & Aber Records 2008
- Diagnosis: Jazz with August Zirner 2010 Label: Content Re (Edel)
- Glück auf Ruhrgebiet , 2010 the single including sing-along version, text, sheet music and video
- Frankenstein 2018 with August Zirner
Web links
- Website of the Money Boxes Terzett
- ruhr.business-on Voting on the best anthem of the European Capital of Culture with "Glück auf, Ruhrgebiet" by the Spardosen-Trzett, "Komm zur Ruhr" by the singer Herbert Grönemeyer and "Glück auf, der Steiger geht" by Ährwin Weiß (accessed on 18 January 2010)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b WDR5 band presentation on February 15, 2007 with numerous original interview sounds from the band members
- ↑ a b Reviewer Thomas Quasthoff in DIE ZEIT May 24, 2006
- ^ Music video project Glück auf, Ruhrgebiet des Spardosen-Terzett ( Memento from February 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Text of the song Komm zur Ruhr by Herbert Grönemeyer ( Memento from January 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive )