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Jazz Matinee

Label: H
Released: 2002
Track listing: Peanut Butter and Honey; A Frame for the Blues; Lament for Booker; Do You Believe; My Funny Valentine; Blues for My Father; A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square / A House Is Not a Home; Cottontail (69:50).

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The SWR Big Band with Slide Hampton: Jazz Matinee

by Jack Bowers
April 12, 2002

Barbra Streisand sang that “people who need people” are the luckiest people in the world. To that list should be added big–band enthusiasts in and around Stuttgart, Germany, as the SWR Big Band’s Jazz Matinees there just keep getting better and better. The latest in the ensemble’s series of live recordings, showcasing the prodigious talents of ...

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Jazz in Concert Featuring Jens Winther

By SWR Big Band

Label: H
Released: 2001
Track listing: Lifetime; Child of Nature; The Fourth Way; Science Fiction; The Hierophant; Alien Cult (71:19).

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Plays the Music of Maria Schneider / Kurt Weill

By SWR Big Band

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

Album

Jazz Matinee

By SWR Big Band

Label: Faszination Musik
Released: 2001
Track listing: Serpent

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Featuring Jens Winther

By SWR Big Band

Label: Faszination Musik
Released: 2001
Track listing: Lifetime; Child of Nature; The Fourth Way; Science Fiction; The Hierophant; Alien Cult (71:19).

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Goldener Meilenstein

By SWR Big Band

Label: Edel Records
Released: 2001

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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. ...

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The SWR Big Band Live!: Plays the Music of Maria Schneider / Kurt Weill

by Jack Bowers
August 1, 2001

Setting aside for the moment the question of her proficiency as a composer / arranger / conductor, one must concede that Maria Schneider is either a crackerjack (self)–promoter or has one of the best agents in the business. Ten photographs are included with this two–CD set, which was recorded in concert in May 2000 with Germany’s ...

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The SWR Big Band with Clark Terry: Jazz Matinee

by Jack Bowers
August 1, 2001

The irrepressible Clark Terry was a spry seventy–seven years old when this “Jazz Matinee” was recorded three years ago in Stuttgart, Germany. To hear him — on trumpet, flugelhorn or singing — is to summon forth images of a much younger man, so infectious is his boundless energy and unfailing good humor. About the latter, drummer ...