Thilo Wolf Big Band - Satt (2-Disc Set)

CD 1 - Thilo Wolf Big Band - Latin Grooves: feat. Wolfgang Haffner, José Cortijo, Doug Bickel, Norbert Nagel ... Komp. und Arr.: Thomas Zoller und Thilo Wolf. CD 2 - Thilo Wolf & the RIAS Big Band - Swinging Originals: Die RIAS Big Band spielt die Musik von Thilo Wolf feat. Jeff Hamilton, Gregoire Peters, Dan Gottshall, Torsten Maaß ... Arr.: Jörg Achim Keller, Thilo Wolf, Thomas Zoller

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.

Album: Satt (Disc 1)
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:24
Size: 113.1 MB
Styles: Big band
Year: 2012

[3:27] 1. Huevo Duro
[2:44] 2. Coco Loco
[3:47] 3. Guajira In My Soul
[4:00] 4. Pepe Cortisona
[2:47] 5. Sambalo Lek
[4:04] 6. Guantanamera
[4:08] 7. Bird's
[4:45] 8. Veracruz
[3:25] 9. Recitando
[3:26] 10. La Paloma
[4:00] 11. Jajita
[4:21] 12. Blue Cha Cha
[4:25] 13. Reflections On Masacote

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Album: Satt (Disc 2)
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 53:38
Size: 122.8 MB
Styles: Big band
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[4:27] 1. Melange Au Jazz
[3:19] 2. Hot Struck
[5:31] 3. A Little Jazzy Tune For Toots
[4:36] 4. The Quarrymen
[4:56] 5. January Moments
[5:37] 6. No No Blues
[3:17] 7. Riffifi
[5:09] 8. Les Sacristians
[4:08] 9. The Butler
[4:17] 10. Serenade For Romance
[5:34] 11. Another Sunburn
[2:42] 12. Klarinettenmuckl Blues

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Thilo Wolf Big Band - Big Band Shout

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 59:16
Size: 135.7 MB
Styles: Big band
Year: 2006
Art: Front

[5:26] 1. Loosen Your Grip
[3:22] 2. Easy To Love
[5:19] 3. Nice Toys
[3:05] 4. Tickle Toe
[2:08] 5. The Man With A Horn
[3:45] 6. All Of Me
[2:30] 7. Tenderly
[3:22] 8. It Had To Be You
[3:43] 9. Mr. Anthony´s Boogie
[4:55] 10. Can You Hear These Dirty Horns
[3:26] 11. He´s Got The Whole World
[4:45] 12. Ain´t Misbehavin`
[3:29] 13. Let The Good Times Roll
[5:58] 14. Amazing Grace
[3:58] 15. One O´clock Jump

Thilo Wolf's Big Band Shout, we are informed in the booklet, was "recorded live . . . on the occasion of taping the television production SWING IT, the only plausible response to which is "wow! One simply can't imagine a television program of this caliber on any outlet—network, cable or public—here in the States. This is for the most part the sort of uncompromising big-band jazz that hasn't graced TV screens in these parts for too many years (read: decades). And judging from the response, the German audience is clearly elated, even before Wolf welcomes his special guests: trumpeter Ray Anthony and blues/gospel singer Joan Faulkner and her backup group, the Expressions.

After four instrumentals including Cole Porter's "Easy To Love and Lester Young's "Tickletoe, Anthony, an octogenarian who has been making beautiful music for more than seventy years (and still has decent chops), enters with his signature theme, "Man With A Horn. He's front and center again on "All Of Me, "Tenderly, "It Had To Be You, "Mr. Anthony's Boogie and the strapping finale, Count Basie's venerable "One O'Clock Jump. Faulkner's showpieces include "He's Got The Whole World, "Ain't Misbehavin', "Let The Good Times Roll and "Amazing Grace. The power-laden band is beyond reproach, as are soloists Wolf, Axel Kühn, Lennart Axelsson, Norbert Nagel, Otto Staniloi, Werner Tauber and Thomas Zoller. It's a shame one has to be in Germany to see and hear music as admirable as this on television, but at least the CD is here to offer some solace. ~Jack Bowers

Big Band Shout

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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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Thilo Wolf Trio Feat. Chuck Loeb, Randy Brecker - A Swinging Hour In New York

Styles: Jazz, Big Band
Year: 1997
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 62:16
Size: 143,1 MB
Art: Front

(2:41)  1. The Last Blues
(4:46)  2. Late Summernight
(3:03)  3. Fascinating Rhythm
(4:39)  4. When I Fall In Love
(4:05)  5. Another Sunburn
(4:18)  6. Teach Me Tonight
(2:47)  7. Riffifi
(4:00)  8. The First Step
(3:36)  9. Sizzle Whizzle
(4:42) 10. Days In Paris
(4:45) 11. They Can't Take Away
(4:42) 12. Nice Toys
(3:27) 13. Little White Lies
(3:46) 14. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
(6:50) 15. Sing Sing Sing

Randy Brecker and guitarist Chuck Loeb join pianist Wolf for A Swinging Hour in New York, a collection of lively trio recordings which succeeds in spite of a lack of truly inspired material the performances alone make it a keeper. ~ Jason Ankeny  http://www.allmusic.com/album/swinging-hour-in-new-york-mw0000033780

Personnel: Thilo Wolf (piano);  Christian Diener (Bass);  Wolfgang Haffner (Drums); Chuck Loeb  (Guitar);  Randy Brecker (Trumpet); New York Strings (Orchestra)

A Swinging Hour In New York

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Thilo Wolf Big Band - Love Me Gershwin

Styles: Jazz, Big Band
Year: 2011
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 53:33
Size: 122,8 MB
Art: Front

(3:37)  1. Nice Work If You Can Get It
(2:37)  2. They Can't Take That Away from Me
(5:00)  3. The Man I Love
(3:33)  4. S'wonderful
(3:42)  5. I Was Doin' Alright
(4:03)  6. I've Got a Crush On You
(2:48)  7. Somebody Loves Me
(2:58)  8. Delishious
(4:20)  9. Embraceable You
(3:37) 10. Our Love Is Here to Stay
(3:04) 11. Strike Up the Band
(5:07) 12. But Not for Me
(1:36) 13. Walkin' The Dog
(5:06) 14. Do What You Do
(2:16) 15. I Got Rhythm

Always keep open eyes and ears a credo that accompanies the Big Band of the Fürthers Thilo Wolf for 20 years now. Variability seems to move through the everyday life of 45-year-olds in all respects: As a leader of a big band who engages on Latin arrangements as well as playing cameos in musical atmosphere or as a musical composer and arranger Thilo Wolf received his musical accomplishments versatile. But this is just a large constant of his daily life, its own advertising and marketing operation leads the graduate businessman as well. As a young accordionist come through a spontaneous note purchase his father with the music Gershwin in contact, drum lessons with Charly Antolini, first big-band arrangements in adolescence a guide for Thilo Wolf's musical career in the direction of symphonic jazz already distinguished themselves from a young age. 1992 follows a big step: setting up your own Big Band and line the same as Television Orchestra in BR format "Swing It" a childhood dream of now at the piano, the band conducting wolf is realized. The possibility, some with well-known names of the scene to present their music in the context of the ongoing television coverage, Wolf is still one of the biggest success and key experiences of his career. 

The cooperation also in the anniversary year levels, the BR devoted to the band in 2012 numerous formats. Performances at the Bavarian Film and Television Award, the records of the anniversary concerts and a portrait of the big band could be seen in the current year in the program, the latter will be broadcast again on July 22. Even beyond the television stage rests the band in the anniversary year not: In June, the double-CD "Big Band fed up" with Latin grooves and original, the musical "Love me Gershwin" comes to reissue, connected to the same CD. In addition, Thilo Wolf has again operated in the role of composer and arranger for the musical stage, "Death in the Tower" celebrated this May as part of the International Hansa Lüneburg in Premiere. A "cross-over" by the genre, the Thilo Wolf not want to miss. One must "go with open eyes through the scene and also pay attention to things that do not seem typical." To scenic As musical director of "Love Me Gershwin," the seasoned instrumentalists or to make singing performers of musical theater to design as an arranger and composer, musical-compatible pop music, the big band repertoire to expand a rock band or a solo bassoonist: These things accompany Thilo Wolf this year, and just for that one must be always awake and spontaneously. So is 2013 a cooperation with the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra at the detailed planning, such cooperation outside the studio still lacks in the "Collection". 

To targeted implement their own projects, Thilo Wolf is since last year, also owner of the specially founded Wave House Studios. But a studio exclusively for its own use, it should not be, but also a focal point for musicians with good ideas, a way to professionally produce good music - not fear associated with the willingness of the owner, in budget issues the call. In short, another major project of the CEO and big band leader  in this case, in the role of promoter - who wants to look at this multiple taxation not counterproductive. As radio big bands the fixed budgeting, so he had the opportunity, to a certain extent to sponsor themselves and enjoy the freedom in the artistic sense of not having to consider any concerns regarding the financial and existential component. Probably a good position to "easy to make" sometimes. ~ Benjamin Burkhart   http://www.jazzzeitung.de/jazz/2012/03/portrait-thilo-wolf.shtml  (translate by google)

Love Me Gershwin

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