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| Nomination for Award in France | New album BIX by ECHOES OF SWING & Friends The new ECHOES OF SWING & Friends double album 'BIX - A Tribute to Bix Beiderbecke', which was presented not long ago at the sold out concert 'Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic', was recently nominated in Paris for the 'Prix de l'Académie du Jazz' in the category 'Jazz Classique'. The new Double-CD 'BIX' with 'Echoes of Swing' & Friends! - including a comprehensive booklet - featuring Colin T. Dawson, Chris Hopkins, Bernd Lhotzky, Oliver Mewes sowie Shannon Barnett, Henning Gailing, Mulo Francel und Pete York This 2-CD set "BIX - A Tribute to Bix Beiderbecke" is a homage to an often forgotten legend and key figure in jazz. Besides Louis Armstrong, American jazz cornetist and pianist Leon Bismark 'Bix' Beiderbecke was one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s. With his unusual purity of tone and a gift for improvisation, he helped to invent the jazz ballad style and hinted at what, in the 1950s, would become Cool Jazz. CD 1: A TRIBUTE TO BIX BEIDERBECKE CD 2: BIX BEIDERBECKE ORIGINAL MUSIC Quotes from the press: >Once, early jazz history was in danger of death by nostalgia. […] Here, however, is something refreshing: a homage to a jazz giant, that is crazily irreverent as it is knowledgeable and sympathetic.< The London Times >Not only a history lesson, but a revelation.< Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) >A triumph of historic and contemporary jazz alike.< Berliner Morgenpost >This illustrious ensemble proved spectacularly, that also in the future music can only be mastered, when knowing the past.< Süddeutsche Zeitung write your comments about the article :: © 2016 Jazz News :: home page |