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The SWR Big Band

50 Jahre

By The SWR Big Band

Label: CK Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Disc 1

The SWR Big Band: 50 Jahre

by Jack Bowers
September 1, 2001

Germany’s world–class SWR Big Band, which began life in 1951 as Erwin Lehn’s Südfunk–Orchester, marked its golden anniversary this year by releasing not one but three consistently spectacular albums. The first, Goldener Meilenstein, features compositions and arrangements by one of America’s most prominent big–band leaders, Bob Florence, while 50 Jahre, a marvelous two–disc set, covers the ...

The SWR Big Band: Jazz in Concert Featuring Jens Winther

by Jack Bowers
September 1, 2001

The SWR Big Band is in danger of becoming Germany’s answer to the Netherlands Metropole Orchestra — but without the string section. Like Metropole, SWR has produced a series of albums in which the orchestra backs well–known guest artists, most of them Americans, but mainly in concert performances rather than the studio settings preferred by Metropole. ...