Format Details:
Release Date: 21 July 2017
Label: Enja
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 063757965220
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
Description
The seven original compositions on 'The Rag Waltz Time' carry the unmistakeable touch of the Waldigeroff Brothers, consciously and fancifully flirting with swing, jazz, Balkan sounds and modern grooves - a feel-good event.
Musicians in the third generation the Wladigeroff Brothers Alexander and Konstantin were born in Sofia in 1978 and demonstrated prodigious talent at an early age. They are identical twins just like their renowned grandfather Pancho Wladigeroff (1899 - 1992), a composer , and his twin brother Lyuben Wladigeroff (1899 - 1902), a violinist. Pancho was the first to combine Bulgarian folk music with Western art music tradition and is rightly considered to be Bulgaria's most important composer.
Such an enormous cultural and spiritual heritage could be a heavy burden but the Wladigroff Brothers handle it with ease. Alexander (trumpet, flugelhorn and composition) and Konstantin (piano, clarinet and composition) studied briefly at the Pancho Wladigeroff Music Academy in Sofia, before setting their sails in the direction of Vienna to perfect their art through study and practice. Very quickly the twin brothers became highly sought after session and theater musicians, with an excellent reputation in Austria and abroad.
Tracklisting
Eva Klesse Quartet
Or Bareket
Johannes Enders
ADHD
Lux Quartet
Franco Ambrosetti
Aki Takase & Daniel Erdmann
Rebecca Trescher
Sultan Stevenson
John Patitucci
Tommy Whittle & Alan Barnes
Xhosa Cole
John Clayton & Mulgrew Miller
George Cables
Sylvaine Helary & Orchestre Incandescent
The Exu
