Thilo Wolf & Guests - The Best Of Thilo Wolf

Styles: Jazz, Big Band
Year: 2005
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 70:59
Size: 162,8 MB
Art: Front

(3:15)  1. The Flintstones
(3:20)  2. Take The A-Train
(4:39)  3. Swinging Fingers
(2:25)  4. Girl From Ipanema
(2:48)  5. Looking at the World
(4:42)  6. Nice Toys
(2:47)  7. Riffifi
(4:41)  8. Late Summernight
(3:49)  9. It's Alright with me
(2:47) 10. S'Wonderful
(4:17) 11. My One And Only Love
(4:31) 12. Can You Hear These Dirty Horns
(5:25) 13. Mr. Grooverix
(5:40) 14. Come Sunday
(5:09) 15. Amazing Grace
(6:50) 16. Sing Sing Sing
(3:46) 17. In The Wee Small Hours

Thilo Wolf, born in 1967, works as pianist, composer and arranger. He is leader of his own formations, the “Thilo Wolf Big Band”, the “Thilo Wolf Jazz Quartet“ and the "Groove Selection".His first love is pulsating, swinging Jazz but he is also open for crossover projects. He combines classical music and jazz through concerts together with the classical “Berliner Saxophone Ensemble”, the “Windsbacher Knabenchor” (Windsbacher Boys Choir) and his Jazz Quartet and in multiple collaboration with the Nuremberg Symphonic Orchestra. In collaboration with the Skibbe Band or the singer Max Mutzke he unites big band sound with rock, pop and soul music. Thilo Wolf and his formations have been performing concerts throughout Germany, Austria, Switzerland, China and Great Britain, in concert halls such as the Philharmonic in Munich or Dortmund, as well as at numerous jazz festivals at Burghausen, Oberkochen, Erding and the “Augsburger Jazzsommer“. His crossover projects led to concerts at classical music festivals such as “International Beethoven Festival“ in Bonn, “Gluck Opera Festival“ in Nuremberg or “Kurt Weill Festival“ in Dessau.  Besides the piano Thilo Wolf learned to play double bass and drums. 

In his youth, he received numerous honours, among them the „Förderpreis“ of his home town Fürth (1986), of the Theaterverein Fürth (1982) and the first price at the “Forum of young German composers of orchestral music” (1984). Furthermore, Thilo Wolf was winner (1983) and holder of a scholarship by the regional newspaper Nürnberger Nachrichten. In June 2012, the „Metropolregion Nürnberg“ appointed him artist of the month June. His musical education was exclusively formed by private tutors like Charly Antolini (drums) and “besides” he graduated with honours in Business Administration from the University Erlangen-Nürnberg. Other awards include the “Louis Armstrong Memorial Award“ (2004) as well the “Grosse Kulturpreis“ of his hometown Fürth (2004). The great dream of founding a big band was already clear from an early age. At the age of 16 he wrote his first big band arrangement. In 1992, at age 25, with the help of the Bavarian Television who dedicated him the TV show “SWING IT!” his dream came true.  This show was priced as the “Best Jazz Broadcast of the Year” (2002) by “Swinging Hamburg e.V.”, a society dedicated to preserve and promote Jazz. In 2012, Thilo Wolf, his big band and numerous guests celebrated the 20th Anniversary. The Bavarian Television devoted him a half-hour portrait and broadcasted the recording of the anniversary concert. His newest project ROCK THE BIG BAND had its first appearance at the end of 2013. The release concert of the eponymous album has been broadcasted already several times.Thilo Wolf does not see himself as a jazz purist. 

In addition to his own projects he writes, arranges and produces CD-and music recordings for film, television and radio, for other artists such as Bill Ramsey, Al Martino or Angelika Milster and for orchestras such as the RIAS Big Band, HR Big Band, the New York Strings, the Babelsberger Movie Orchestra or the Munich Radio Orchestra. Since 2007, Thilo Wolf works regularly as musical director for productions of the Fürth Theatre (“Petticoat & Schickedance” and “The Last Five Years”). As composer, he wrote two musicals “Bahn frei” (Fürth Theatre, 2012) and “Tod im Turm” (Lüneburg Theatre, 2012). In early 2015 the Thilo Wolf Big Band together with the Nuremberg Symphonic Orchestra recorded the soundtrack to "La Cage Aux Folles" (Comödie Fürth).CD productions and concerts led to cooperation with Grammy award winners Diane Schuur and the New York Voices as well as with John Pizzarelli, Randy Becker, James Morrison and many others. Thilo Wolf produced and published over 20 CDs in New York, Munich and Berlin with over a quarter million copies sold. Translate by google  http://www.thilo-wolf.de/de/persona/

(Feat. Randy Brecker, Etta Cameron, Joan Faulkner, Allan Harris, Chuck Loeb, New York Strings)

The Best Of Thilo Wolf

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