My Romance Wolfgang Mitschke & Jürgen Dietz

• 1There Is No Greater Love05:03
• 2Gospel Ballad01:49
• 3No More Blues03:13
• 4Sunday Morning01:11
• 5Waltz of Debbie05:09
• 6Summertime05:16
• 7Bayou03:00
• 8Another Nightbird04:27
• 9Cool Jazz Medley05:58
• 10Soul Bridge01:22
• 11On Green Dolphin Street03:34
• 12Back to the 80's08:38
• 13Sax Solo02:49
• 14My Romance04:25
• 15Blue Monk03:18
• 16An Evening in Texas01:53
• Total Runtime01:01:05

Info for My Romance

With his Album "My Romance", which has now been re-released by NAXOS, Wolfgang Mitschke continues on the path he has taken with the active support of Jürgen Dietz, the experienced and playful tenor saxophonist from Bonn. In addition to very independently presented standards from the Great American Songbook, the album is given a very personal touch by several original compositions by Wolfgang Mitschke. But to the beginning of the new Album: Which jazz title can express Wolfgang Mitschke’s love for the jazz genre more clearly than the first-class swinging title There is no greater love? This jazz title, which was first interpreted only as a ballad and later in medium tempo and in more recent times also frequently as an up tempo version, developed over time more and more into a classic jazz standard. Here Wolfgang Mitschke has recorded the title in up tempo and immediately pulled out all the stops of his skills. The “voicings” chosen for this title on the piano are simply a pleasure, so that one can listen to this title again and again. For the new Album the same holds true as for the previous NAXOS album The Berlin Nightbirds: Wolfgang Mitschke’s “piano lines” always seem charming and light-footed, which makes you want to listen.

Special mention should also be made of Wolfgang Mitschke’s penchant for the “Electric Jazz” of the 80s, that exciting and irretrievable time in jazz. This has also been reflected on the new album with a beautiful medley played on the Fender Rhodes piano, namely the Back to the 80’s Medley. And not to forget, of course, the lovingly orchestrated title My Romance, here also simultaneously the title track of the new album, on which a charmingly old-fashioned sounding electric piano creates a good and relaxed mood.

Jazz pianist and drummer Wolfgang Mitschke became known to a wider audience with the fusion jazz albums Night Over Berlin (in 2005) and Midnight Moods (in 2008) released on the jazz label SKIPRecords. On these albums Wolfgang Mitschke already knew how to use today’s technical possibilities “single-handedly” with perfectly sampled sounds, playing the piano and the electric piano, the bass, the rhythm guitar, the strings and the drums so organically that a round sound picture was created.

In 2020 Wolfgang Mitschke changed to the world-famous NAXOS label and, after a longer creative artistic break, presented with The Berlin Nightbirds again a new jazz album. Music journalist Stefan Sell wrote about this album in June 2020 in the wellknown music magazine Crescendo: “Laidback musicianship, completely relaxed and of great joy in playing is Wolfgang Mitschke’s new Album The Berlin Nightbirds. Courageous to venture once again into the standards of the Great American Songbook’s and to present them as cheerfully and effortlessly as the jazz pianist and drummer from Bonn does here (…) In his crossover between jazz, pop, fusion and bar music, Mitschke has managed to create an integral Berlin night scenery worthy of a movie. The soundtrack of the summer, extremely likeable and endearing!”

Wolfgang Mitschke, Klavier, Keyboards, Bass- und Drum-Programming
Jürgen Dietz, Tenorsaxophon

Wolfgang Mitschke
verkörpert so etwas wie den neuen Typ des deutschen Jazz-Musikers: Mit ausgeprägtem Sinn für Marketing-Strategien, sprachlich versiert, immer korrekt gekleidet, immer freundlich lächelnd, im Musikgeschmack immer stilsicher und nie stilistisch verengt. Der zwischen seinen Wohnsitzen in Köln/Bonn und Berlin pendelnde Musiker ist gleichzeitig ausgebildeter Schlagzeuger, autodidaktischer Keyboarder, ausgebuffter Musik-Programmierer und bekennender Entspannungsjazz-Fan, alles in allem ein leidenschaftlicher Freak, der von 1998 bis 2005 vier Jazz-Alben aufgenommen hat, die von diversen Radio-Stationen in Deutschland, in den USA und der Schweiz abgespielt werden. Mitschke's nunmehr bereits fünftes Jazz-Album "Midnight Moods" wurde Anfang 2008 in Köln zusammen mit Jürgen Dietz aufgenommen.

Jürgen Dietz
ist ein im Rheinland viel beschäftigter und geschätzter Saxofonist. Neben eigenen Musik-Projekten fungiert er auch als Leiter einer Big-Band und hat aufgrund seiner hohen Professionalität viel zum Gelingen des neuen Albums „Midnight Moods“ beigetragen.

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