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Weill/Brecht Projekt mit Bigband (live) Kurz -

New York New York 2015

Zu den wenigen deutschen Jazzstandards der 60er Jahre gehören für mich die hervorragenden
Songs von Hildegard Knef. Sie bilden die Grundlage meines Debüt-Albums Zimmer bei Nacht.
Die Songauswahl erzählt in meiner Phantasie von einer einsamen Winterreise in einem Zimmer
mitten in der nächtlichen Großstadt. Dort ringt lethargische Tatenlosigkeit mit dem ehrgeizigen
Kampf, der die Sehnsucht nach Freiheit, Liebe und Glück stillen will.
Diese Stimmung gibt der klassische, warme Jazz-Sound wieder, den ich gemeinsam mit
hochkarätigen Musikern dieser Stadt aufgenommen habe. Die wunderbaren Arrangements schrieb
der Pianist Wolfgang Köhler. Er wird musikalisch unterstützt von Lars Gühlcke am Kontrabass,
Felix Astor an den Drums, Gregoire Peters am Saxophon und Bill Petry an der Trompete.
Als special guest konnte ich die zauberhafte Katharine Mehrling als Duettpartnerin gewinnen.

Zimmer bei Nacht

Mein Zimmer bei Nacht

Reise! Vocalese nach einer Solo-Transkription des Titels "Liz-Anne" interpretiert von Stan Getz.

REISE! raw-mix

music: Kurt Weill / lyrics: Elmer Rice / arr. Andreas Janssen / 3:40 min.
This song from Kurt Weill is from the musical "Street Scene". This is the forties composed song to let you already guess of the later cool jazz sounds. This describes the loneliness and the feeling of being strange in a big city. The arrangement was written by Andreas Janssen, I am very happy that I could bring this big-band arrangement into life via home recording. Thanks to all who have supported and encouraged me to record the song this way!

BAX- Big band members:
p: Michal Niedbala / b: Helen Svoboda / dr : André van der Heide / as,ts: Andrew Saragossi / bar: Jorge Viejo / fh,t : Carlo Nardozza / tb, btb: Dirk Bosman g: Giacomo Tabacco
Recording & Mixing
Louis van Eten, Freddy Tings

Sebastian Stert - Lonely House

The "Pirate-Jenny" is of course also a classic by Kurt Weill and Bertold Brecht. To do justice to Brecht's alienation effect, I think the song can also be sung by a man, especially in times of equality. The big band arrangement was written by Jorik Bergman.
BAX- Big band members:
p: Micky Hong / b: Helen Svoboda / dr : André van der Heide / as,ts: Andrew Saragossi / bar: Jorge Viejo / fh,t : Carlo Nardozza / tb, btb: Dirk Bosman
Recording & Mixing:
Louis van Eten, Freddy Tings

Sebastian Stert - Seeräuberjenny

As I was strolling through Maastricht one evening, I heard the Carillon playing, a melody I know well from the music-book „Kinderszenen“ by Robert Schumann. I used to play this piece when I was a child and it is called Soldatenmarsch. Why should a soldiers' march be for children? I'm writing a new song out of it, a song for peace, like the bells of the Carillon, should announce it.

March for freedom

Just in the last few days the world has been shaken by the fate of George Floyd. I think of how many black artists have been and still are discriminated against and despised in the worst possible way. Without them, jazz would and is unthinkable !!!!!!
I will  remember to all black musicians who have shaped jazz history and still had to take the back door and were humiliated and also all those artists who had and have to hide and cannot sing for the ones they love.

I Loves You Porgy

This song is dedicated to my parents, who were both classical musicians and gave me the love for music from an early age on. As a child, I loved the songs and stories of the „Winterreise“ or the „Schöne Müllerin“ and played the accompaniment on the piano at an early age to enter the world of Schubert. My father, who always said to me as a jazz singer you should sing a classical song every now and then. He was right.

Frühlingtraum

Saga Of Jenny

Santa Miranda 2020
Tom Schreyer (music & lyrics and production)
Sebastian Stert: vocals
Pierre Vyncke: saxophone

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