SWING, WALTZ, SWING

This Big German Band without Germans, have sold their records so far mainly in the United States. But now amongst other things it is being released to the German market with this album. The following are the musicians who were gathered in the Cologne studio: Kenny Clarke, from Paris, one of the founders of the Modern Jazz quartet, Bebop-father and together with Art Blakey and Max Roach one of the most significant jazz-drummers ever. Francis Boland, the sensitive pianist and Arrangeur from Namur, who worked one after the other for Aim� Barelli, Count Basie, Woody Hermann, Kurt Edelhagen and Werner M�ller, who also became well-known over the Belgian border. From Stockholm came the trombonist Ake Persson and the bariton-saxophonist Sahib Shihab, who this time produced together with Sadi from Belgium the incredible introduction for the "springvoices Waltz"on the flute. Trumpeter Benny Bailey left Munich and met here with Jimmy Deuchar, Great Britain, Dusko Gojkovic, Jugoslavia, Shake Keane