 Исполнитель: Oscar Klein Название альбома: Oscar Klein's Jazz Show Featuring Romano Mussolini Год выпуска: 1994 Формат файлов: Mp3, 320 Размер архива: 123 Mb Скачать с: rusfolder
Klein died Tuesday in Germany, the Austria Press Agency quoted a sister as saying. He had lived with his wife in the southwestern German state
of Baden-Wuerttemberg.
Born Jan. 5, 1930, to a Jewish family in the southern Austrian city of Graz, Klein and his family fled the country after the Nazi regime annexed Austria just before World War II and settled in Switzerland. He had planned to celebrate his 77th birthday next month with a concert
in Innsbruck, APA said.
Best known for his aggressive and expressive Chicago-style trumpeting, which made him a fixture on the European club and festival scene, Klein also played clarinet, guitar and harmonica and began his career when jazz was just taking hold in Vienna in the 1950s.
He teamed up with Joe Zawinul in the band Fatty George, later moved to the Tremble Kids and the Dutch Swing College Orchestra, and went on to play with Hampton, Wild Bill Davison, Bill Coleman, Dexter Gordon and other jazz greats.
Klein, who was self-taught, never learned to read music, but he made nearly 200 recordings in his 40-year career, specializing in "old" jazz, Dixieland, swing and blues.
Trained as a graphic artist, he spoke seven languages and worked as an art teacher in Florence, Italy, when he was 18.
In 1996, the late Austrian President Thomas Klestil presented Klein with the nation's silver Medal of Honor, one of Austria's highest decorations.
The music on this CD has been produced by artists from different backgrounds - Oscar Klein, a Jew who was interned in fascist Italy during World War II; Romano Mussolini, the youngest son of the former fascist dictator of Italy; Jan Jankeje, a Slovak, and Gregor Beck, a German.
Klein performs technically well and expressively on all of his trumpet solos, he blows a gutsy clarinet on his “Blues for Peter Schilperoort,” he is best on guitar on “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore,” and his harmonica is truly jazzy on his “The New Harmonica Shuffle.” Mussolini has
brought together elements of the blues, stride and swing into a unique style of his own. Mussolini’s stylistic modernity is displayed on his solo rendition of “To My Mother,” which he composed, and Jankeje takes a long, interesting bass solo on his “Bratislava Fantasy”. The best
rendition is “The Sheik of Araby,” with splendid solos from Klein, on trumpet, Mussolini and Beck, a swing drummer who also displays his outstanding technique on” Bye, Bye, Blackbird.” These excellent musicians, coming from diverse backgrounds, have given us some very enjoyable
jazz on this CD.
Cadence/George Borgmann
01. You Are My Sunshine (Davis/Mitchell) 4.50
02. Blues For Peter Schilperoort (Klein) 4.12
03. O Sole Mio (DeCapua) 4.21
04. A Tribute To Wild Bill (Klein) 4.15
05. Bratislava Fantasy (Jankeje) 4.29
06. To My Mother (Mussolini) 3.25
07. Bye Bye Blackbird (Dixon/Henderson) 4.17
08. Me And My Guitar (Klein) 5.36
09. The Roman Swing Of Mrs. Stone (Mussolini) 4.30
10. Don't Get Around Anymore (Ellington) 6.20
11. The Sheik Of Araby (Smith/Snyder/Wheeler) 5.10
12. The New Harmonica Shuffle (Klein) 2.48
Recorded at Daylight Tonstudios, Stutgart, Aptil 27, 1994
Label: Jazzpoint Records, 1994
Personnel:
Oscar Klein, trumpet, clarinet, guitar, harmonica
Romano Mussolini, piano
Jan Jankeje, bass
Gregor Beck, drums
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