Andrej Hermlin & His Swing Dance Orchestra - Life Goes To A Party

Styles: Swing, Big Band
Year: 2001
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 66:47
Size: 153,8 MB
Art: Front

(3:21) 1. Life Goes To A Party
(2:43) 2. Jump, Jump's Here
(3:40) 3. Blue Moon
(3:09) 4. The Dipsy Doodle
(2:28) 5. Nonstop Flight
(3:30) 6. Over The Rainbow
(2:57) 7. Wll All Right
(3:47) 8. Pickin' The Cabbage
(3:02) 9. Jeepers Creepers
(2:44) 10. Dinah
(2:59) 11. Sweet Sue, Just You
(5:49) 12. You Go To My Head
(2:15) 13. I'll See You In My Dreams
(3:59) 14. Chattanooga Choo Choo
(2:26) 15. God Save The Swingking
(2:39) 16. The Glory Of Love
(3:22) 17. Tropical Nights
(2:28) 18. A Tisket, A Tasket
(4:29) 19. Yes Indeed
(4:52) 20. Sing, Sing, Sing

Hermlin was born the son of the writer Stephan Hermlin . Hermlin grew up bilingually through his mother Irina Belokoneva-Hermlin, who was from Russia . Hermlin received his first piano lessons at the age of seven. After graduating from the Carl von Ossietzky High School in Berlin-Pankow, he studied piano from 1986 to 1990 at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin . He learned the swing style he played by himself . In 1986 he founded the Swing Dance Band , which became the Swing Dance Orchestra in 1995 , of which he has been the band leader ever since. So far (as of 2014) Hermlin has released more than ten CDs with this formation and has performed with it regularly, both nationally and internationally. The Swing Dance Orchestraplays swing in the style of the 1930s, partly with original equipment, such as consoles from that time, and mostly unamplified only the singing is amplified and recorded with microphones with a historical look (but modern inner workings). Andrej Hermlin became known beyond his music when he was arrested after the 2008 presidential election in Kenya on suspicion of terrorism. Hermlin had previously supported the democracy movement and candidate Raila Odinga , with whom he is friends. In the village of Thumaita, 130 kilometers from Nairobi , he and his wife Joyce built an art deco style house.

He is involved in the community, wired the village , had street lamps installed and organized the garbage collection . Due to the reforms in the party and as a supporter of Gorbachev , Hermlin joined the PDS in February 1990 "when everyone else had left". For a time he was a member of the Berlin State Executive of the PDS and a candidate for the House of Representatives . He has been a member of the Left Party since it was formed and regularly appears at their events. Due to his interest in historical aviation , Hermlin supported a referendum by the Berlin CDU in 2007 to keep Tempelhof Airport open . With me you are beautifulHermlin specially designed a program of swing pieces by Jewish musicians to protest anti-Semitism. Hermlin and his wife Joyce have two children. His son David Hermlin and daughter Rachel Hermlin perform as singers and dancers with their father's orchestra. Andrej Hermlin lives in Berlin-Niederschönhausen in the house where his father lived and where he grew up. The equipment of the house is at the level of 1927, but modernized. The furniture dates from the period 1930-1960. The Biermann affair had begun in the living room of the house. Hermlin's father Stephan had written a petition against the expatriation, which had been signed by twelve people in the living room.https://de-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Andrej_Hermlin

The Swing Dance Orchestra is a multinational orchestra in big band format from Berlin , which mainly plays swing in the style of the 1930s; its predecessor was founded as a quintet in 1986 by Andrej Hermlin (band leader) with four other musicians. The first rehearsals of the quintet, which was still called the Swing Dance Band at the time, took place in a father's garage. The first appearance took place in the spring of 1987 in what was then the construction workers' youth club with a repertoire of 15 titles. In 1995 today's formation was created. https://second.wiki/wiki/swing_dance_orchestra

Life Goes To A Party

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Andrej Hermlin & His Swing Dance Orchestra - Happy Birthday Mr. Swing!

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 43:21
Size: 99.2 MB
Styles: Swing, Big band
Year: 2015
Art: Front

[2:50] 1. Bugle Call Rag
[2:28] 2. Careless
[2:29] 3. Lonesome Road
[3:17] 4. Embraceable You
[2:50] 5. I Come From A Musical Family
[3:08] 6. Five O'clock Whistle
[2:36] 7. Happy Birthday Mr. Swing
[3:42] 8. Only You
[3:31] 9. One O'clock Jump
[4:38] 10. Blues In The Night
[3:02] 11. King Porter Stomp
[3:26] 12. Minnie The Moocher
[5:19] 13. Drummin' Man

Initially, the first jam sessions were conducted in Andrej’s parents’ garage. Back then the four young musicians playing with Andrej Hermlin could not imagine what would result from their experimental music-making. But one thing they knew for certain: they wanted to play swing, and they wanted it to sound authentic. In their first gig in the spring of 1987 in an establishment then called the “Club of Young Construction Workers”, the group played their entire repertoire – barely more than 15 titles. Several years later the SWING DANCE BAND – with new outfits, and now including a guitarist and female vocal soloist – could be heard playing at larger ball events. Bettina Labeau, at that time married to the bandleader, is still today the vocal soloist of the orchestra. At the end of 1995 the band renamed itself the SWING DANCE ORCHESTRA, now there was a small wind section and arrangements were added to attempt to emulate the sound of the American big bands. On a rather coincidental trip to New York, Andrej Hermlin was rather surprised to experience the new craze for swing in the U.S. In view of the thousands of young swing dancers at “Midsummer Night Swing“ on Lincoln Plaza the Berlin bandleader vowed: “I’ll bring my orchestra to New York no matter what the cost.”

In the summer of 1999 – after months of difficult preparations, everything was finally ready: the band traveled to America. The first gig of the SWING DANCE ORCHESTRA in America took place high above the roofs of Manhattan – in the restaurant of the World Trade Center “Windows of the World“ – a place that no longer exists. Many remarkable things have happened since then: David Rose was signed on as second vocal soloist, the band appeared more often on television, released more albums, was involved in film productions and gave guest performances in Hong Kong, Brussels, Zurich and London. But during all these years, Andrej Hermlin’s foremost goal was to found his own big band. He waited a long time to do it, but since the beginning of 2001 he has been the bandleader of an orchestra with 16 musicians. In the following summer he fulfilled a dream: he returned with his band to the “Big Apple“, played in the “Rainbow Room“, at the legendary “Hotel Pennsylvania“ – and at the “Midsummer Night Swing“ at Lincoln Plaza…

In 2004 the orchestra traveled to the Glenn Miller Festival in Clarinda, Iowa, Glenn Miller’s native city. The SWING DANCE ORCHESTRA has played gigs in the most prestigious concert halls in Germany and elsewhere. Under the Sony/BMG label the orchestra has released the albums : “Live in New York“ and “Benny Goodman´s Carnegie Hall Concert 1938“ – evidence of an amazing development which began so modestly many years ago. All of the old pals who played back then in the garage are still playing together today as musicians in the SWING DANCE ORCHESTRA. The story of this extraordinary band has not yet come to an end, so keep posted to find out what will happen next.

Happy Birthday Mr. Swing!

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