100 – The Unreleased WDR Jazz Recordings 1957 - 1974 (Remastered) Kurt Edelhagen & His Orchestra

• 1 Tubbes 03:02
• 2 El Mo 03:52
• 3 Mosquito´s Nightmare 04:24
• 4 Snap It 03:39
• 5 K_JD 485 02:59
• 6 Fatsination 03:08
• 7 I Remember Clifford 03:47
• 8 Blues for Bohemia 04:21
• 9 Save Your Love for Me 04:44
• 10 Till 03:29
• 11 Sweet Georgia Brown 03:04
• 12 Sumphin 05:30
• 13 Black Velvet 05:52
• 14 Bohemia After Dark 06:06
• 15 Flookey Pootsey 02:57
• 16 KE 07:30
• 17 Yah-Yah-Blues 06:54
• 18 Sabbath Message 03:08
• 19 Chinatown, My Chinatown 05:14
• 20 Blues Fifteen 11:22
• 21 Shaw´Nuff 05:39
• 22 Beach 04:27
• 23 A Cool Day 05:51
• 24 Russian Roulette 06:09
• 25 Oliver Haydn Whigham III 03:43
• 26 4 for Berlin 04:49
• 27 Work Song 03:35
• 28 In the Night 05:47
• 29 I Will Give You 05:42
• 30 Our Delight 05:34
• 31 Ole 08:42
• 32 Mo`Jo 04:10
• 33 The Sentence 08:39
• 34 4+3 03:25
• 35 Mc Arthur Park 02:58
• 36 Oni Puladi 09:39
• 37 No Later Now 04:51
• 38 Triple Adventure 07:04
• 39 Black Eyed 07:08
• 40 Ow Dallab 07:36
• Total Runtime 03:30:30

Info for 100 – The Unreleased WDR Jazz Recordings 1957 - 1974 (Remastered)

For the first time, the previously unreleased jazz recordings of the legendary German bandleader Kurt Edelhagen and his orchestra, which were recorded between 1957 and 1974 in the studios of the WDR, are presented here to the inclined audience sound-technically prepared in a 3-album set. Edelhagen, who was also responsible for many commercial recordings up to Schlager productions, shows here with his orchestra that these recordings are seamlessly in a row with the releases of the "big" jazz big bands of that time. The development of the orchestra is generously shown on this recordings from the swinging 1957 ensemble to the experimental band of 1974. The names of the contributing soloists speak for themselves: Maynard Ferguson, Mark Murphy, Philly Joe Jones, Toots Thielemans, Albert Mangelsdorff, Benny Bailey, Jiggs Whigham, to name just a few. A MUST HAVE!!!

Kurt Edelhagen & his Orchestra 1957
Kurt Edelhagen & his Orchestra 1964

Digitally remastered

Kurt Edelhagen
A well-respected bandleader whose orchestras tended to emphasize swinging dance music but were open to boppish solos, Kurt Edelhagen was a major name in Germany for quite a few years. He studied piano and conducting, and then in 1946 formed his first big band. Edelhagen was a natural bandleader and he headed ensembles for the radio station in Frankfurt, in Nuremberg (1949-1952) and most notably the orchestra of Sudwestfunk (1952-1957) which sometimes looked towards Stan Kenton. In 1957 he joined Westdeustcher Rundfunk in Cologne which in time included such players as trumpeters Dusko Goykovich and Jimmy Deuchar, altoist Derek Humble, and trombonist Jiggs Whigham. He headed that band until it broke up in 1973 and remained semi-active up until near his death. Kurt Edelhagen recorded fairly often in Germany during 1949-1972 although few of his records (other than one put out by Golden Era) have been made available in the U.S.

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