The Big Band of the Deutsche Oper Berlin is celebrating it’s 20th anniversary and dedicating itself to French jazz. During the German occupation, it stood for freedom and resistance, and in the post-war period it became the soundtrack of existentialism and an expression of the attitude to life of an entire generation. In the nightclubs of Saint-Germain-des-Prs, musicians such as Miles Davis and Sidney Bechet met Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Boris Vian. For many jazz musicians from the USA, Paris became a place of longing beyond racial segregation and the McCarthy era. The Deutsche Oper Berlin Big Band celebrates the spirit of those years with music by Michel Legrand, Jacques Brel, Boris Vian, and Django Reinhardt.

Tracklist:

1. Duke: April in Paris
2. Ruppert: Jazz de Paris
3. Vian ; Goraguer: Je bois
4. Walter: Je suis snob
5. Brel: Bitte mach nicht Schluss (Ne me quitte pas)
6. Noble: Cherokee
7. Legrand: Quand ca balance
8. Legrand: La femme coup en morceaux
9. Ruppert: Au bar Le Tabou
10. Reinhardt: Nuages
11. Reinhardt: Djangology
12. Legrand: Que feras tu dans ta vie ?
13. Legrand: Ray Blues
14. Reinhardt: Daphn
15. Legrand: Nous voyageons de ville en ville

UPC: 0880242171276
Label: Euroarts
Release Date: 5.1.26
Format: CD