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Big Band Jugendmusikschule Hochschwarzwald: Jetz isch Zitt

by Jack Bowers
August 1, 1999

Bassist Thomas Winterhalder was kind enough to send this CD by the Jazz ensemble at the Hochschwarzwald Youth Music School in Germany’s beautiful black forest with a letter explaining that “all the musicians . . . on the CD [except for conductor Götz Ertle and vocalist Esther Kaiser] make music as their hobby.” Well, for student/hobbyists they ain’t half bad, performing together as capably as many college–level big bands in this country. Like every German band we’ve heard, amateur or ...