Release Date: 09 May 2025
Label: Swr Classic / SWR Classic
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 747313916580
Description
Founded in 1951 by Erwin Lehn, the SWR Big Band has been nominated several times for a GRAMMY Award and received the German Jazz Award (Gold) in 2015. Over the years, it has collaborated with artists such as Quincy Jones, Pat Metheny, George Benson, Gary Burton, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Curtis Stigers, Jacob Collier, Patti Austin, Roy Hargrove, Sammy Nestico, Ivan Lins, Paula Morelenbaum, Joo Kraus, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Bob Florence, Rob McConnell, Slide Hampton, Maria Schneider, Frank Foster, Bill Holman and Bob Mintzer. Their 2018 album 'SWR Big Band live at the Elbphilharmonie' is one of the label's longest running bestsellers. The collaboration between Sammy Nestico and the SWR Big Band began in 2004, when the composer was already 80 years old. It soon developed into a real friendship that produced no less than five albums, all of them bestsellers in the SWR catalogue. They also made a significant contribution to raising international awareness of Nestico's late creative phase. The music he wrote for the SWR Big Band sports both funky sounds and elements of fusion, combining swing, a pinch of soul and an emotional orchestral expression. The music moves artfully between reduced combo sounds and opulent textures. This sense of mutual understanding was created during the decade-plus period of collaboration between the composer and the band, a collaboration built not only on notes, but also on intuition.
SWF-Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden; Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz Orchester; Ernest Bo
Stefania Neonato; Christine Busch
Sinfonieorchester des Sudwestfunks; Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR; Eliahu Inbal
Micah Thomas; Kalia Vandever; Nivole Glover; Adam O'Farrill; Henry Fraser; Kayvon Gordon
Lionel Martin; Demian Martin; SWR Symphonieorchester; Camerata Schweiz; Giedre Slekyte; Howard Grif
SWF-Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden; Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR; Yuri Ahronovitch
SWR Big Band; Marc Godfroid
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR; Gary Bertini
Carla Bley
Frank Dupree; Jakob Krupp; Meinhard 'Obi' Jenne; SWR Big Band; SWR Symphonieorchester; Dominik Beyk
SWR Big Band; Marc Godfroid
Fats Waller
Billy Cobham and The George Duke Band
Count Basie
Tom Smith
Klaus Gesing, Ana Pilat, Latvian Radio Big Band
