Jazzrausch Bigband - Alle Jahre wieder! (2022) [Official Digital Download]

The Jazzrausch Bigband has become known for its techno jazz programs, with which it has virtually invented a new genre. But every year, ever since its founding eight years ago, the troupe goes on tour at the end of the year with a Christmas night program. "Like most recently with the album 'Emergenz,' our regular projects are about working through themes and thus reinventing ourselves over and over again," says band founder and leader Roman Sladek. "Our Christmas thing is really just exclusively about fun. Moreover, it was even our first program ever, which we are still lovingly developing. Because we're dying to devote one month a year entirely to the big band tradition."

Consequently, 2019 saw the release of ACT's debut - four releases have already been added in the meantime - not only "Dan-cing Wittgenstein", but also the Christmas program "Still! Still! Still!" Because the band has successively expanded and renewed the repertoire, and after the Corona break a large Christmas night tour from the Laeiszhalle Hamburg to the Robert Schumann Hall in Düsseldorf and the Isarphilharmonie Munich to the Berlin Cathedral loomed, "it was time to record a new album for our heart's theme," as Sladek finds. Voilà, here comes "Alle Jahre wieder!".

Of course, the Jazzrausch Bigband would not be so innovative and successful if they were content with some quickly assembled Christmas album. For them, it has to be surprisingly different and something with "oomph". Which already began with the preparation: Already in spring Sladek gave the band's chief composer and arranger Leon-hard Kuhn the order to put together 50 minutes of completely new pieces. Rehearsals and recording were firmly scheduled between the numerous tour dates in the summer. Conceptually, too, they were not satisfied with what they had achieved. Was already "Still! Still! Still!" was almost a compendium of big band styles superimposed on popular Christmas pieces, the spectrum on "Alle Jahre wieder!" is once again significantly expanded. Although it is formally even more concentrated
In contrast to all other albums of the Jazzrausch Bigband, this is for the first time a purely instrumental one; and then Kuhn has assembled ten completely jazz-unsuspicious, almost staid classical Christmas songs from "Tochter Zion, freue dich" to "Adeste fideles" or "Ihr Kinderlein, kommet" to the title piece and completely re-clothed them with his orchestral garments: Sometimes the typical Glenn Miller swing smiles at you, sometimes Artie Shaw's incomparable big band elegance. The Bavarian "Es wird scho glei dumpa" comes to you in the Tijuana brass sound of legendary trumpeter and orchestra leader Herb Alpert, "In dulci jubilo" becomes a Countasie high-pressure brass machine. "Maria durch ein' Dornwald ging" gets the touch of the Mel Lewis/Thad Jones Orchestra after a Henry Mancini-like intro, "Ich steh' an deiner Krippe hier" becomes the relaxed counterpart of various swing grandmasters.

TRACKLIST

1 Tochter Zion, freue dich
2 Maria durch ein’ Dornwald ging
3 Es wird scho glei dumpa
4 In dulci jubilo
5 Adeste fideles
6 Ich steh’ an deiner Krippe hier
7 Ihr Kinderlein, kommet
8 Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen
9 Alle Jahre wieder
10 Wir sagen euch an den lieben Advent



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