Till Brönner & NDR Bigband live in Lübeck 2009

Foto © Dieter & Robert Eikelpoth

Till Brönner, trumpet, vocals, keyboards
Jasper Soffers, piano
Dieter Ilg, bass
Wolfgang Haffner, drums
NDR Bigband
Jörg Achim Keller, conductor, arranger

Recorded live at Schleswig Holstein Musik Festival, Musik- und Kongresshalle Lübeck, August 28, 2009

1. 42nd & 6th (Till Brönner)
2. Café Com Pao
3. The Moment
4. A Distant Episode
5. No Breakfast
6. Your Way To Say Goodbye

My personal favorite Till Brönner album is "Blue Eyed Soul", released 2001 on Verve. A collaboration with Japanese DJ Samon Kawamura and soul vocalist Mark Murphy that embraced electronica idioms to update the trumpeter's sound into the postmodern era.

Till Brönner & Band live in Burghausen 2009

Till Brönner (tp, keyb, voc)
Jasper Soffers (p)
Johan Leijonhufvud (g)
Dieter Ilg (b)
Wolfgang Haffner (dr)
Afra Mussawisade (perc)

40. Internationale Jazzwoche Burghausen 2009

1. Estate
2. 42nd & 6th
3. Little Sunflower
4. The Moment
5. In A Second
6. A Distant Episode
7. Café Com Pão
8. A Rã
9. No Breakfeast
10. Your Way To Say Goodbye
11. Rising Star

All too often German trumpet player and vocalist Till Brönner tends to play "too smooth" for a jazz purists ear. Consequently he has explored different territories of today´s popular music forms, as he did on his latest recording "Rio", recorded in Brazil.
On this concert date presented here with an excellent band, Brönner shows also his jazz side, paying off his dues to modern trumpet playing (c.f. the really great solo on Freddie Hubbard´s Little Sunflower).