Paul Kuhn Trio - Play It Again Paul

Styles: Vocal and Piano Jazz
Year: 2000
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 76:04
Size: 175,1 MB
Art: Front

(2:45)  1. More
(6:18)  2. Prelude To A Kiss
(5:03)  3. They Can't Take That Away From Me
(5:11)  4. The Nearness Of You
(0:51)  5. Toots Thieleman's Solo Improvisations On 'The Nearness Of You'
(6:37)  6. Just Friends
(5:44)  7. Polka Dots and Moonbeams
(4:18)  8. You Make Me Feel So Young
(4:36)  9. Sugar Daddy
(6:09) 10. 'Deed I Do
(4:26) 11. Falling In Love With Love
(5:06) 12. A Child Is Born
(3:42) 13. Anthropology
(5:12) 14. A Foggy Day In London Town
(4:17) 15. Don't Get Around Much Anymore
(5:42) 16. Tenderly

The "character" of the German jazz, it may not be easy. With its "old" companions Greetje field and Toots Thielemans, the trio Paul Kuhn shows Willy Ketzer on drums and Paul G. Ulrich on bass that the musical fire is far from extinguished in him. The result is a studio recording with (almost) live conditions with the audience. This makes sense: not only because the previous two albums created in the (non-public) studio and in a club. It makes even more sense if it is like at Paul Kuhn is a pianist and singer, who as an icon of German (upscale) radio / television entertainment, entertainer par excellence with the "for-musicians-only" attitude nothing but can also start anything. He not only loves the contact that he needs him. Not without ulterior motives he has chosen "his" friends for this album: Greetje field has a warm, soulful voice (and personality), is one of Europe's best jazz singers and one of the few that have worked in the USA and none other than Ray Brown Herb Ellis, Stan Getz and Phil Woods can count on her musical friends. 

And with Toots Thielemans, the uncrowned king of jazz harmonica, Paul Kuhn connects one of the longest relationships within his rich relations musician's life. It's not just her game that affection can be given to them, it is also, and just as their natural and charming way: Here the just slyly giggelnde Toots, whose eyes betray the next moment a touch of sentiment; there Pauls never acting calculated understatement, his warm-hearted wit, who need not exclude a sadness melancholy look. Experienced and wily of show business men, free from the pressure of having to hide the manchild. 

But this feeling other still carry on, those long-term relationships Kuhns, the almost daily (respectively: evening, not to say nightly) are exposed to a "stress test". Paul G. Ulrich, for five years at the side of his namesake, with full sound and perfect intonation (and so connected one of the few jazz players who know how to convince in painted solos), and Willy Ketzer, the past two decades (! ) in the service of the conductor, an absolute guarantee of the essence of this music, Swinging, almost at home in all styles and formats, someone who also knows exactly why, what specific requirements brings the trio genre with it. The sound engineer Winnie Leyh it took the opportunity to capture with his special "instrument" that mood and cast a wonderful warm sound on tape, which can participate in the special atmosphere of the handset. ~ Translate by google  https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/jazz/detail/-/art/Paul-Kuhn-geb-1928-Play-It-Again-Paul/hnum/3038314

Personnel:  Bass – Paul G. Ulrich;  Drums – Willy Ketzer;  Harmonica – Toots Thielemans;  Piano, Vocals – Paul Kuhn;  Vocals – Greetje Kauffeld

Play It Again Paul

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