Steffen Schorn & WDR Big Band live at WDR Jazz Cologne 2009

Steffen Schorn - Conductor, Arrangements
Heiner Wiberny, Karolina Strassmayer, Olivier Peters, Paul Heller, Jens Neufang - Reeds
John Marshall, Wim Both, Andy Haderer, Rob Bruynen, Klaus Osterloh - Trumpets
Ludwig Nuss, Uli Plettendorff, Bernt Laukamp, Mattis Cederberg - Trombones
Paul Shigihara - Guitar; Frank Chastenier - Piano
John Goldsby - Bass; Hans Dekker - Drums
Special Guests: Lars Andreas Haug, Tuba; Bodek Janke, Percussion

1. Celso (Hermeto Pascoal)
2. One Year Later (Steffen Schorn)
3. Wo kommt denn des her? (Steffen Schorn)
4. The Opener (Steffen Schorn)

recorded live at WDR Funkhaus Köln, Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal, October 31, 2009

Composer, Conductor and Professor of Jazz Saxophone Steffen Schorn received the WDR Jazz Award 2009 for composition.
This is the highest honor awarded for improvised music in Germany. The concert with the WDR Big Band arranged and conducted by Steffen Schorn took place October 30 in Cologne.
Together with the Frankfurt Radio Big Band (hr-Big Band) he recorded "Tudo E Som - All is sound - The Music of Hermeto Pascoal" released this year