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

• 1Tubbes03:02
• 2El Mo03:52
• 3Mosquito´s Nightmare04:24
• 4Snap It03:39
• 5K_JD 48502:59
• 6Fatsination03:08
• 7I Remember Clifford03:47
• 8Blues for Bohemia04:21
• 9Save Your Love for Me04:44
• 10Till03:29
• 11Sweet Georgia Brown03:04
• 12Sumphin05:30
• 13Black Velvet05:52
• 14Bohemia After Dark06:06
• 15Flookey Pootsey02:57
• 16KE07:30
• 17Yah-Yah-Blues06:54
• 18Sabbath Message03:08
• 19Chinatown, My Chinatown05:14
• 20Blues Fifteen11:22
• 21Shaw´Nuff05:39
• 22Beach04:27
• 23A Cool Day05:51
• 24Russian Roulette06:09
• 25Oliver Haydn Whigham III03:43
• 264 for Berlin04:49
• 27Work Song03:35
• 28In the Night05:47
• 29I Will Give You05:42
• 30Our Delight05:34
• 31Ole08:42
• 32Mo`Jo04:10
• 33The Sentence08:39
• 344+303:25
• 35Mc Arthur Park02:58
• 36Oni Puladi09:39
• 37No Later Now04:51
• 38Triple Adventure07:04
• 39Black Eyed07:08
• 40Ow Dallab07:36
• Total Runtime03:30:30

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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