Paul Kuhn Big Band - Live At The Philharmonic Cologne (2 Parts)

On this double CD, old master Paul Kuhl plays on the first CD with his friends, especially Gustl Mayer on his tenor saxophone. He always reminds me of his strong tone at Illinois Jacquet. On the 2nd CD Paul plays with his big band. Both CD`s were live from 1995-2009 live in the Kölner Philharmonie. And offer excellent swinging jazz, as is accustomed to by Paul Kuhn. ~Waldonez

Paul Kuhn (12 March 1928 – 23 September 2013) was a German jazz musician, band leader, singer and pianist. He was the band leader of the SFB Big Band, the orchestra of the Sender Freies Berlin, the TV-Station of West Berlin, part of ARD. He was the conductor of the German entry in the 1972 Eurovision Song Contest. Kuhn was born the son of a croupier in Wiesbaden. In 1936, at the age of 8, he had a public gig at the 'Funkausstellung' in Berlin, playing the accordion. Some years later, he discovered jazz music (which was frowned upon during the nazi time (1933-1945)). In 1944, he was in Paris and had some gigs to entertain soldiers of the Wehrmacht, who still occupied Paris. After V-Day (8 May 1945), the USA formed an occupation zone in parts of Germany, amongst them the region around Frankfurt. Kuhn was hired by AFN (American Forces Network), he was live on radio almost every day, alone or with his band. He adopted the style and sound of Glenn Miller.

In the 1950s, he arranged and composed entertainment music. Around 1955, he increasingly launched pop songs, sung and played by himself. During the sixties, more and more west German households bought a TV; music shows, big bands and singers were very successful. In 1968, Kuhn was named head of the entertainment orchestra of Sender Freies Berlin. In 1980, this band was dissolved and Kuhn moved to Cologne and founded his own orchestra.

Album: Live At The Philharmonic Cologne (Part 1)
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 77:42
Size: 177.9 MB
Styles: Big band
Year: 2011
Art: Front

[ 5:19] 1. C. Jam Blues
[ 7:30] 2. Stitt's Tune
[ 4:51] 3. I Wish You Love
[ 7:48] 4. Broadway
[ 7:29] 5. Polkadots And Moonbeams
[10:42] 6. Take The A Train
[ 6:50] 7. Tenor Madness
[ 4:58] 8. Sister Sadie
[ 7:39] 9. I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance
[ 3:10] 10. When I Take My Sugar To Tea
[ 7:47] 11. Scrapple From The Apple
[ 3:34] 12. Leap Frog

Live At The Philharmonic Cologne (Part 1)

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Album: Live At The Philharmonic Cologne (Part 2)
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 52:23
Size: 119.9 MB
Styles: Big band
Year: 2011
Art: Front

[3:37] 1. You're Driving Me Crazy
[4:50] 2. Tuxedo Junction
[4:31] 3. So Easy To Love
[2:57] 4. Nightmare
[2:51] 5. Mr. Anthony's Boogie
[3:35] 6. On The Sunny Side Of The Street
[6:59] 7. Our Love Is Here To Stay
[4:37] 8. Honeysuckle Rose
[6:20] 9. With A Song In My Heart
[4:18] 10. I Fall In Love Too Easily
[4:14] 11. You Stepped Out Of A Dream
[3:29] 12. Apple Honey

Live At The Philharmonic Cologne (Part 2)

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Greetje Kauffeld - My Shining Hour

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2011
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 62:00
Size: 143,8 MB
Art: Front

(5:01)  1. Happiness Is A Thing Called Love
(4:33)  2. It's Only A Paper Moon
(4:15)  3. A Sleepin' Bee
(5:01)  4. Harold Arlen Medley
(4:10)  5. My Shining Hour
(6:44)  6. Over The Rainbow
(4:24)  7. That Old Black Magic
(5:14)  8. Ill Wind
(6:13)  9. Out Of This World
(4:32) 10. Last Night When We Were Young
(5:07) 11. Let's Fall In Love
(6:40) 12. One For My Baby

This album brings together a superb team to pay eloquent tribute to a man who made more contributions to the Great American Songbook than any other composer - Harold Arlen. The twelve classic songs on this album are beautifully interpreted by Greetje Kauffeld, who receives excellent support from a quintet led by Paul Kuhn. Says Paul: "Greetje is a wonderful singer who belongs to the elite of the jazz vocalists. He singing is very soulful and her warm voice is perfectly suited to Harold Arlen's ballads." http://www.inandout-records.com/records/greetje-kauffeld/My+Shining+Hour/00000257

Personnel:  Greetje Kauffeld (vocal);  Paul Kuhn (piano & vocal);  Paulo Morello (guitar);  Kim Barth (alto saxophone & flute);  Paul G. Ulrich (bass);  Willy Ketzer (drums) 

My Shining Hour

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Paul Kuhn & SDR Big Band - Swingtime: The Original Arrangements 2

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 1994
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 68:58
Size: 162,5 MB
Art: Front

(3:30)  1. South Rampart Street Parade
(3:24)  2. Tuxedo Junction
(3:06)  3. Back Bay Shuffle
(2:52)  4. I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
(2:56)  5. 720 In The Book
(4:23)  6. I Can't Get Started (Vocal)
(3:13)  7. Boogie Woogie
(3:50)  8. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
(3:19)  9. Casa Loma Stomp
(3:21) 10. Concerto For Cootie
(3:27) 11. A String Of Pearls
(3:55) 12. Sing, Sing, Sing
(3:27) 13. And The Angels Sing (Vocal)
(4:44) 14. Moten Swing
(3:12) 15. Jumpin' At The Woodside
(1:39) 16. Ciribiribin
(3:13) 17. Jersey Bounce
(2:59) 18. Harlem Nocturne
(3:27) 19. Yes, Indeed! (Vocal)
(4:54) 20. Air Mail Special

Paul Kuhn (12 March 1928 – 23 September 2013) was a German jazz musician, band leader, singer and pianist. He was the band leader of the SFB Big Band, the orchestra of the Sender Freies Berlin, the TV-Station of West Berlin, part of ARD. He was the conductor of the German entry in the 1972 Eurovision Song Contest. Kuhn was born a the son of a croupier in Wiesbaden. In 1936, at the age of 8, he had a public gig at the 'Funkausstellung' in Berlin, playing the accordion. Some years later, he discovered jazz music (which was frowned upon during the nazi time (1933-1945)). In 1944, he was in Paris and had some gigs to entertain soldiers of the Wehrmacht, who still occupied Paris.After V-Day (8 May 1945), the USA formed an occupation zone in parts of Germany, amongst them the region around Frankfurt. Kuhn was hired by AFN (American Forces Network), he was live on radio almost every day, alone or with his band. 

He adopted the style and sound of Glenn Miller (1904-1944). In the 1950s, he arranged and composed entertainment music. Around 1955, he increasingly launched pop songs, sung and played by himself. During the sixties, more and more west German households bought a TV; music shows, big bands and singers were very successful. In 1968, Kuhn was named head of the entertainment orchestra of Sender Freies Berlin. In 1980, this band was dissolved and Kuhn moved to Cologne and founded his own orchestra. Starting in 2000, he toured with Max Greger, Hugo Strasser and the Big Band of SWR (Südwestdeutscher Rundfunk). At the end of 2011, Kuhn travelled to San Francisco to record a CD (The L.A. Session, with John Clayton and Jeff Hamilton). The album was released in 2013. His most known hits were Der Mann am Klavier (1954), Es gibt kein Bier auf Hawaii (1963) and Die Farbe der Liebe (1958 in the charts). ~ Bio  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kuhn_%28band_leader%29

Swingtime: The Original Arrangements 2

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Paul Kuhn Big Band - Looking Back

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 59:00
Size: 135.1 MB
Styles: Big band, Swing
Year: 2000
Art: Front

[2:54] 1. Something To Start With
[3:46] 2. South Rampart Street Parade
[3:50] 3. How Deep Is The Ocean
[2:33] 4. For Dancers Only
[2:55] 5. 720 In The Books
[3:51] 6. Come Rain Or Come Shine
[3:11] 7. Woodchopper's Ball
[4:05] 8. I Got Rhythm
[6:01] 9. Over The Rainbow
[2:59] 10. As Time Goes By
[3:17] 11. On The Sunny Side Of The Street
[4:18] 12. From This Moment On
[6:21] 13. Caravan
[4:20] 14. The King
[4:31] 15. Get Happy

When it comes to looking back, Paul Kuhn has an illustrious 60-year career in music to reflect upon. This album, with his Big Band, was recorded at the Philharmonie in Cologne, where he has given a concert every year since 1986. And it features some of the great popular standards and jazz instrumentals of all time. And, it goes without saying that it swings from start to finish.

Looking Back

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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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Paul Kuhn Trio - Blame It On My Youth

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 48:12
Size: 110.4 MB
Styles: Easy Listening
Year: 2001
Art: Front

[2:58] 1. I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face
[3:50] 2. Blame It On My Youth
[3:25] 3. On A Clear Day You Can See Forever
[5:09] 4. Blues Again
[3:33] 5. I've Got The World On A String
[2:59] 6. Lulu's Back In Town
[3:31] 7. The Very Thought Of You
[2:52] 8. The Surrey With The Fringe On Top
[5:05] 9. With A Song In My Heart
[3:04] 10. My Romance
[4:54] 11. Willow Weep For Me
[4:15] 12. But Not For Me
[2:31] 13. Broadway

Recorded in the SFB Studios in Berlin, this album by the Paul Kuhn Trio - Paul (piano, vocals), Paul G. Ulrich (bass) and Kurt Bong (drums) - features some of the great American popular songs which have made a lasting impression on Paul Kuhn in the course of a career spanning more than 50 years, songs such as Rodgers & Hart's 'My Romance', Gershwin's 'But Not For Me', Ray Noble's 'The Very Thought Of You' and Harold Arlen's 'I've Got The World On A String' performed with style and affection.

Blame It On My Youth

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Paul Kuhn - I Wish You Love

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2005
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 59:41
Size: 138,1 MB
Art: Front

(4:52)  1. Sister Sadie
(7:48)  2. Take The A-Train
(4:55)  3. I Wish You Love
(6:40)  4. Stitt's Tune
(8:12)  5. Polka Dots & Moonbeams
(7:38)  6. Broadway
(5:27)  7. Soon
(5:42)  8. With A Song In My Heart
(8:23)  9. Flying Home

Paul Kuhn (12 March 1928 – 23 September 2013) was a German jazz musician, band leader, singer and pianist. He was the band leader of the SFB Big Band, the orchestra of the Sender Freies Berlin, the TV-Station of West Berlin, part of ARD. He was the conductor of the German entry in the 1972 Eurovision Song Contest. Kuhn was born a the son of a croupier in Wiesbaden. In 1936, at the age of 8, he had a public gig at the 'Funkausstellung' in Berlin, playing the accordion. Some years later, he discovered jazz music (which was frowned upon during the nazi time (1933-1945)). In 1944, he was in Paris and had some gigs to entertain soldiers of the Wehrmacht, who still occupied Paris. After V-Day (8 May 1945), the USA formed an occupation zone in parts of Germany, amongst them the region around Frankfurt. Kuhn was hired by AFN (American Forces Network), he was live on radio almost every day, alone or with his band. 

He adopted the style and sound of Glenn Miller (1904-1944). In the 1950s, he arranged and composed entertainment music. Around 1955, he increasingly launched pop songs, sung and played by himself. During the sixties, more and more west German households bought a TV; music shows, big bands and singers were very successful. In 1968, Kuhn was named head of the entertainment orchestra of Sender Freies Berlin. In 1980, this band was dissolved and Kuhn moved to Cologne and founded his own orchestra. Starting in 2000, he toured with Max Greger, Hugo Strasser and the Big Band of SWR (Südwestdeutscher Rundfunk). At the end of 2011, Kuhn travelled to San Francisco to record a CD (The L.A. Session, with John Clayton and Jeff Hamilton). The album was released in 2013. His most known hits were Der Mann am Klavier (1954), Es gibt kein Bier auf Hawaii (1963) and Die Farbe der Liebe (1958 in the charts).Bio ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kuhn_%28band_leader%29

Personnel:  Bass – Paul G. Ulrich; Clarinet, Alto Saxophone – Georg Mayr; Drums – Willy Ketzer; Piano – Paul Kuhn;  Trombone – Ludwig Nuss; Trumpet – Till Brönner

I Wish You Love

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Paul Kuhn - The L.A. Session

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 48:34
Size: 111.2 MB
Styles: Jazz piano
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[4:27] 1. Almost The Blues
[2:31] 2. Just In Time
[3:12] 3. Close Your Eyes
[3:04] 4. You've Changed
[6:24] 5. On A Clear Day You Can See Forever
[4:44] 6. Griff
[2:57] 7. Dinah
[3:10] 8. Speak Low
[4:21] 9. Emily
[2:57] 10. There Will Never Be Another You
[2:40] 11. My Heart Stood Still
[2:51] 12. Ornithology
[2:32] 13. People
[2:37] 14. As Time Goes By

'The L.A. Session' by the veteran German jazz pianist and vocalist Paul Kuhn was recorded at the legendary Capitol Studios in Los Angeles. Backed by an A-list rhythm section - drummer Jeff Hamilton and bassist John Clayton - he performs a set of classic jazz standards as well as two of his own compositions. With his unmistakable sense of rhythm and melody, Kuhn appears to absorb each individual note and transforms it into a very special art of timeless swing.

Recording information: Capitol Studios, Los Angeles (11/08/2011/11/09/2011).

Paul Kuhn (piano, vocals), John Clayton (bass), Jeff Hamilton (drums)

The L.A. Session

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