[TR24][OF] Nils Landgren with Janis Siegel & Bochumer Symphoniker - Some Other Time (A Tribute To Leonard Bernstein) - 2016 (Vocal Jazz)

Anke Eilhardt, oboe / Martina Overlöper & Rainer Philipp, flute / Thomas Budack & Bernd Schreiber, clarinet Amely Preuten & Marcus Heeb (4.11. only), bass clarinet / Urban Heß & Rainer Stark, bassoon Reiner Ziesch & Florian Balzer, trumpet / Douglas Simpson, bass trombone Ansgar Mayer-Rothmund, tuba / Alan Leighton, Katja Schönfeld & Christoph Schieri, french horn Nicolas Bardach, percussion / Meret Eve Haug, harp Felix Hilse, orchestra manager

Right in time for Nils Landgren's 60th birthday celebration the most elaborate project of his unparalleled career will be published. This album includes the music of musicals like 'West Side Story and a phenomenal line-up, among others his All-Star band, Bochumer Symphoniker and singer Janis Siegel of the legendary 'The Manhatten Transfer'. Together with conductor and arranger Vince Mendoza they build a memorial for a friend of Jazz and great composer of the 20th century, Leonard Bernstein.
“Jazz is the joy of playing, and hence entertainment in the best sense of the word” (Leonard Bernstein)Of all the great classical maestros of his generation, Leonard Bernstein was the key advocate of jazz. He was not only a profound authority on jazz music, he could also play it on the piano and used its elements when he composed. All the stranger that jazz musicians have practically never adapted Bernstein. These were the exact thoughts of ACT boss Siggi Loch who suggested to Nils Landgren that he create a tribute to the great 20th century composer. And Landgren didn’t have to think twice about it: “I have always been a fan of Bernstein, as a musician, as a conductor, as a composer and simply as a person. His music is unique, the way he writes is distinctive, emotional and always so human.
What Landgren didn’t know yet was that “Some Other Time” was to become the most complex project of his career to date. A highlight right on time for his 60th birthday on 15 February 2016. He travelled to New York several times to do research. By the end he had managed to put together an “absolute dream team”: the outstanding sound machine of 18 members of the Bochum Symphony Orchestra, an exquisite jazz band, the world-class arranger Vince Mendoza and a vocalist for the authentic New York vibe: Janis Siegel from the legendary “The Manhattan Transfer”.
The all-star trio provides the rhythmic foundation: Wolfgang Haffner, the infallible timekeeper and “Germany’s coolest drummer” (ARD ttt); Dieter Ilg, who brings with him the perfect references for this project in the form of his classic interpretations of Verdi, Wagner and Beethoven; and last but not least Swedish pianist Jan Lundgren, who along with his Nordic “Vemod” and impressionist esprit also has roots in the American jazz piano tradition.