Description
Vienna. With *You Wonderful You*, Simone Kopmajer and Viktor Gernot release their first joint album. The duet project is both a journey of discovery and a declaration of love to jazz: two perfectly harmonizing voices celebrating the great melodies of the 20th century while bringing their finely attuned musical dialogue to the forefront. The album brings together timeless classics as well as lesser-known treasures, some of which exist in only a few recordings. The oldest composition, Irving Berlin's "Play a Simple Melody" from the 1910s, symbolically represents the entire project: a journey through melodies of the Great American Songbook all the way to Traditional Pop. In the tradition of legendary duet albums by Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Ella Fitzgerald, and Barbra Streisand, Simone Kopmajer and Viktor Gernot shape their own sonic conversation. The velvety brilliance of Kopmajer's voice seems to float above the sonorous vocal foundation presented by Viktor Gernot. Since 2021, Viktor Gernot and Simone Kopmajer have also been performing live together (including "Jazz On A Summer's Day"). On stage, too, two worlds meet that complement each other perfectly: Kopmajer's elegant jazz precision and Gernot's charming, humorous entertainer qualities. They are joined by a top-class quartet: Thomas Kugi (saxophone), Paul Urbanek (piano), Karl Sayer (bass), and Reinhardt Winkler (drums).
