Euro Swing Vol 1, by Umlaut Big Band

Euro Swing Vol 1

by Umlaut Big Band

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1.	Jolly Walk 02:42	buy track
2.	Limehouse Blues 02:44	buy track
3.	Hot and Heavy 02:32	buy track
4.	Hors d'Oeuvres 03:05	buy track
5.	Black & Blue Rhythm 03:38	buy track
6.	Bee-Ology 02:49	buy track
7.	Este Año Estoy de Moda 02:47	buy track
8.	Midnight Blues 03:44	buy track
9.	Poem 02:26	buy track
10.	Atlantic Stomp 02:32	buy track
11.	The Japanese Sandman 03:31	buy track
12.	Palais de Danse 03:23	buy track
13.	Rubbish Heap Blues 03:42	buy track
14.	Rachmaninoff Prelude 02:44	buy track
15.	Three's Company 02:09	buy track
16.	Oh What a Funny Feeling 02:53	buy track
17.	Tiger Rag 02:43	buy track

about

For their new record, the band chooses to focus closer to home, on early jazz in Europe (1925-1940). After a meticulous historical research and recording transcriptions, Pierre-Antoine Badaroux and his orchestra built a new repertoire based on the work of European musicians who discovered and took over jazz.

These 17 tracks and a fascinating booklet (in French & English) tell us the amazing story of the jazz birth in this new territory at a very special time, and brings to life a music that made our jazz history.

Compositions from USSR, Spain or Tchekoslovakia are to be discovered! And maybe, among many others, you will re- discover the swing touch from the British pianist Jack Hylton, the Belgian saxophonist Fud Candrix or Léo Vauchant the French and then Californian trombonist.

The talented and festive 14 musicians of Umlaut Big Band, coming from the new jazz scene (ONJ) and/or from the European improvisation avant-garde (Peeping Tom, Zoor), gathered in 2011 to celebrate with its ecstatic audience the energy of the good ol’ swing bands.

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released June 15, 2015

Pierre-Antoine Badaroux : artistic direction and alto saxophone
Antonin-Tri Hoang : alto saxophone and clarinet
Jean Dousteyssier, Geoffroy Gesser : tenor saxophone and clarinet
Benjamin Dousteyssier : alto and baritone saxophones
Brice Pichard, Louis Laurain, Emil Strandberg : trumpet
Fidel Fourneyron, Michaël Ballue, Nicolas Grymonprez : trombone
Romain Vuillemin : guitar
Bruno Ruder : piano
Sébastien Beliah : double bass
Antonin Gerbal : drums

Recording : Le Luisant, Germigny-L’Exempt . February 23rd-27th 2015
Mixing and mastering : Ken Yoshida
Artwork : Sven-Åke Johansson and Dominique Hamot
Production : Pierre-Antoine Badaroux

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Umlaut Records Paris, France

Umlaut is a music collective born in 2004 in Stockholm, which then opened two branches in Berlin and Paris.

« Transformation of sound » is the motto around which they gathered to produce records, organize concerts, discover new artists and play music together.

The collective works to spread a music that is too rarely shared and discovered. ... more

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