• 3-CD SET EDITION

For the first time, the previously unreleased jazz recordings of the legendary German bandleader Kurt Edelhagen and his orchestra, which were recorded between 1957 and 1974 in the studios of the WDR, are presented here to the inclined audience sound-technically prepared in a 3-CD Box with detailed liner notes. Edelhagen, who was also responsible for many commercial recordings up to Schlager productions, shows here with his orchestra that these recordings are seamlessly in a row with the releases of the "big" jazz big bands of that time. The development of the orchestra is generously shown on this 3 CD box from the swinging 1957 ensemble to the experimental band of 1974. The names of the contributing soloists speak for themselves: Maynard Ferguson, Mark Murphy, Philly Joe Jones, Toots Thielemans, Albert Mangelsdorff, Benny Bailey, Jiggs Whigham, to name just a few. A MUST HAVE!!!

MUSICIANS:

• Kurt Edelhagen & his Orchestra 1957
• Trumpets:
• Jimmy Deuchar
• Milo Pavlovic
• Fritz Weichbrodt
• Dusko Goykovich
• Trombones:
• Helmut Hauk
• Christians Kellens
• Ken Wray
• Manfred Gätjens
• Saxes:
• Kurt Aderhold
• Jean-Louis Chautemps
• Derek Humble
• Franz von Klenck
• Eddie Busnello
• Rhythm Section
• Francis Coppieters - piano
• Johnny Fischer - bass
• Stuff Combe - drums

• Kurt Edelhagen & his Orchestra 1964
• Trumpets:
• Hanne Wilfert
• Shake Keane
• Rick Kiefer
• Horst Fischer
• Trombones:
• Jiggs Whisham
• Manfred Gätjens
• Otto Bredl
• Nick Hauck
• Saxes:
• Derek Humble
• Heinz Kretzschmar
• Wilton Gaynair
• Karl Drewo
• Kurt Aderhold
• Rhythm Section
• Bora Rokovic - piano
• Peter Trunk - bass
• Dai Bowen - drums

TRACKS:

• CD 01: 1957 - 1962
• 01. Tubbes
• 02. El Mo
• 03. Mosquito`s Nightmare
• 04. Snap It
• 05. K-JD 485
• 06. Fatsination
• 07. I Remember Clifford
• 08. Blues For Bohemia
• 09. Save Your Love For Me
• 10. Till
• 11. Sweet Georgia Brown
• 12. Sumphin
• 13. Black Velvet
• 14. Bohemia After Dark
• 15. Flookey Pootsey
• 16. KE

• CD 02: 1962 – 1967
• 01. Yah-Yah-Blues
• 02. Sabbath Message
• 03. Chinatown, My Chinatown
• 04. Blues Fifteen
• 05. Shaw `Nuff
• 06. Beach
• 07. A Cool Day
• 08. Russian Roulette
• 09. Oliver Haydn Whigham III
• 10. 4 For Berlin
• 11. Work Song
• 12. In The Night
• 13. I Will Give You

• CD 03: 1968 – 1974
• 01. Our Delight
• 02. Ole
• 03. Mo`Joe
• 04. The Sentence
• 05. 4+3
• 06. Mc Arthur Park
• 07. Oni Puladi
• 08. Not Later Now
• 09. Triple Adventure
• 10. Black Eyed
• 11. Ow Dallab