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All Genres > Jazz > Big Band > THE BIG BAND CONVENTION: Live At The Rheinländer Cologne 2001

The Big Band Convention is an orchestra that plays once a month in a Cologne Jazz Club.

For about 10 years professional big band musicians meet to play original charts of the "classic" big bands that are no longer being heard today. The band functions as well as a platform for arrangers of today that write music in the swinging big band tradition.

Artistic director: Martin Schäfer
Conductor: Stefan Pfeifer

The musicians:

Saxophones:
André Cimiotti, Dirk Grezius, Frank Jacobi, Christian Torkewitz, Martin Schäfer, Achim Schroeter

Trumpets:
Jörg Brohm, Martin Reuthner, Frank Engel, Volker Goetze, Thomas Vogel, Rüdiger Baldauf

Trombones:
Günter Bollmann, Bert Conzen, Richard Hellenthal, Ulrich Launhardt, Wolf Schenk, Adi Becker

Rhythm section:
Jürgen Grimm-piano; Bruno Müller-guitar; Jochen Schaal-bass: Jürgen Peiffer-drums

Check out the artist's website:
http://www.bigbandcovention.de

Track List:
1. Blues For Uncommon Kids
2. Whisper Not
3. Laura
4. Tall Cotton
5. Bleuphoria
6. Stolen Moments
7. I Thought About You
8. A Soundsketch
9. I'll Be Seeing You
10. One O' Clock Jump

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