The Swing legends are in April and May as a guest at the Philharmonie in MünchenAm 08.04. and exactly one month later, on 08.05.2012, the three swing legends Max Greger, Paul Kuhn Hugo Strasser and come together with the SWR Big Band at the Munich Philharmonie am Gasteig. Swing is for these three men a way of life that keeps going literally - because they are proud aggregated 257 Lenze. Speaking of age: Max Greger 2011, celebrated with friends and fans of his 85th Birthday is on stage, of course. And 2012 is already the next big birthday is on the tour schedule of the "Swing Legends" because Hugo Strasser with his nearly 90 years the oldest of the trio with Max Greger and Paul Kuhn. After Peter Kraus in last year's concert tour stepped in for him, the 'piano man' returns now after four years.
Together Greger, Strasser and Kuhn are the ambassadors of music that they have all discovered early in life for themselves. As the swing namely in the 1920s was in Chicago and New Orleans in the cradle of jazz in Germany, the three future big band leader saw the light of day.
It should be after the war, when Hugo Strasser first played jazz clubs inamerikanischen in Munich and other Bavarian cities. It was the culmination of an era, the U.S. had in the big bands in Germany made the style popular. Above all, Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller exercised a great influence on the clarinet.
With his current bandmates Max Greger Strasser played their music for the first time in 1949 at the Max Greger sextet. 2005 finally did the two together with Paul Kuhn to as "Swing Legends" under the motto "A Tribute to Glenn Miller" a whole tour of the great American big band leader to devote.
The Swing legends are in April and May as a guest at the Philharmonie in MünchenAuf the current tour celebrating Paul Kuhn, Max Greger not only the Ninetieth her bandmates, but just that era, with which they combine their musical roots. So may the concert-goers look forward to the great successes of the Big Band Glenn Miller-hero, Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Benny Goodman. With undiminished force, the three swing legends such hits as "In the Mood," "Moonlight Serenade" and "Chattanooga Choo Choo". "The power of the old master is still impressive," attested journalist Jacob Biazza bandleader Max Greger.
Hugo Strasser still convinced with the velvety sound he elicits from his clarinet. For his 85th Birthday gave him the Sueddeutsche Zeitung with the attribute of the "born clarinetist." Five years later he gives Erroll Garner ballad "Misty" still creeps the factor that brings the audience to indulge. But not only the solierenden blowers are masters of their craft.
"The man at the piano", Paul Kuhn, also assumes the position as a singer in the swinging trio. If he "Unforgettable" and "Mack The Knife" intones, is more than just a hint of Broadway in the air. As an instrumentalist, the youngest member of the band still pulls all registers of a first-class ragtime and jazz pianist. After four years of abstinence, it itched a doyen in the fingers of his colleagues to cheer on the keys. Paul Kuhn, who was in the role of guest conductors often the opportunity to lead the SWR Big Band is delighted about his return, when he einheizen not only the orchestra and his bandmates will sondenr.
Let us show you live from the "Swing Legends" - at 08.04. and 08.05.2012 at the Philharmonie am Gasteig in Munich. The team from Munich Blog wishes much fun.
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