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Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra - The Most Beautiful Girl (1974)

2015-11-22T16:53:18Z

Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra - The Most Beautiful Girl (1974)


1.    The Most Beautiful Girl
2.    Why Can't You and I Add Up to Love
3.    Touch the Wind
4.    Jumpin' Blues
5.    Opus One
6.    I Found My Love
7.    Let Me Be There
8.    Easy Glider
9.    Tuxedo Junction
10.    Moon Over Baja
11.    I Cover the Waterfront
12.    In The Everglades

Bert Kaempfert was born on October 16, 1923 in Hamburg, Germany. He composed “Stranger In The Night” and “Spanish Eyes”. He also produced first Beatles recording session in Hamburg. He unfortunately died suddenly on a stroke on June 21, 1980 (age 56).

Bert Kaempfert has a total of 53 domestic album releases. Fortunately almost all his albums are now available on CDs.

“The Most Beautiful Girl” was Bert’s 42nd domestic album release. The entire set was totally enjoyable with great sound, and is a welcome addition to complete my Bert Kaempfert library. --- Dr. Joseph Lee, amazon.com

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Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra ‎– Famous Swing Classics (1990)

2018-07-01T14:26:28Z

Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra ‎– Famous Swing Classics (1990)


1 	Woodchopper's Ball 	3:15
2 	Little Brown Jug 	2:52
3 	One O'Clock Jump 	2:53
4 	Lullaby Of Birdland 	3:16
5 	Two O'Clock Jump 	3:12
6 	Airmail Special 	2:48
7 	Apple Honey 	3:19
8 	Intermission Riff 	3:24
9 	Jumpin' At The Woodside 	3:41
10 	Marie 	3:20
11 	It's Only A Paper Moon 	3:18
12 	In The Mood 	3:18
13 	Opus 1 	3:56
14 	Tuxedo Junction 	3:09
15 	Night Train 	2:55
16 	Perdido 	2:49
17 	Take The "A" Train 	3:13
18 	Skyliner 	3:12
19 	Honeysuckle Rose 	3:18

In October 1977 Bert Kaempfert fulfilled a long-cherished wish and recorded a complete album with 12 titles taken from the repertoire of the most famous swing bands. He breathed new life into these old favorites without detracting from their typical and highly unique original sound.

Renowned soloists, all of whom were regular members of his orchestra as of the 1970s, performed the solos in this production: Ack van Rooyen (trumpet and cornet), Herb Geller (flute and alto saxophone), Ferdinand Powel (tenor saxophone), James Towsey (baritone saxophone) and Jiggs Whigham (trombone).

Although Bert Kaempfert preserves the original tempo in his arrangement of Woody Herman’s Woodchopper’s Ball (original recording: 12 April 1939), his personal stroke of the pen is discernible in every other respect. Herman’s clarinet solo is played here by Ack van Rooyen. Trombone, baritone sax and further trumpet solos follow before the well-known riffs are heard to conclude the piece.

Glenn Miller’s version of the American children’s song Little Brown Jug (original recording: 10 April 1939) was a great hit. In his arrangement, Kaempfert allots the main theme to Herb Geller’s flute, thus lending the work a charmingly carefree character.

Count Basie’s One O’Clock Jump (original recording: 7 July 1937) sold millions; hard on its heels followed Harry James’s Two O’Clock Jump (original recording: 6 March 1939). The two works enjoy a similar structure. Conversation passes back and forth between the tenor sax, muted trumpet and trom-bone, while the continual build-up of the final choruses enhances the quality of this number.

Lullaby Of Birdland was originally conceived as a quintet (original recording: 17 July 1952 by the George Shearing Quintet). In Kaempfert’s masterly big band arrangement, none of the original atmosphere is lost: he merely replaces Shearing’s typical combination of piano, vibraphone and guitar with that of flutes and vibraphone, thus imparting an even lighter touch to the piece.

With the composition of the swing standard Air Mail Special (original recording: 13 March 1941 by the Benny Goodman Sextet), whose fame was partly due to the scat singing of Ella Fitzgerald, one is already aware of the bebop era yet to come – and it goes without saying that this was apparent in Kaempfert’s arrangement.

Woody Herman, the “wild man” of the big band era, made his most remarkable recording, Apple Honey (original recording: 19 February 1945), at the zenith of his creative period. In his arrangement, Bert Kaempfert dispenses with the aggressiveness of the original recording and incorporates several relaxed and loosely connected solo passages.

It was Stan Kenton who brought about the break with the tradition of swing and ushered in the era of orchestral jazz. Those who never really felt comfortable with Kenton’s recording of Intermission Riff (original recording: July 1946) will very probably enjoy Bert Kaempfert’s milder version.

Jumpin’ At The Woodside is a further number by Count Basie (original recording: 22 August 1938) which has always been a great favorite with the public thanks to its hypnotic riffs. Kaempfert takes the pace more slowly in his arrangement, while the solo flute, muted trumpet and trombone provide for plenty of variety.

Like numerous other numbers by Tommy Dorsey, Marie also landed in the charts in the early 1940s (original recording: 17 October 1940). Kaempfert takes the tempo somewhat more slowly and gives prominence to the trombone – clearly a tribute to the great trombonist Dorsey and his velvety sound.

In It’s Only A Paper Moon (original recording: December 1943 by the Nat “King” Cole Trio), Bert Kaempfert does not base his arrangement on any one particular version but concerns himself more with the title itself, which was a tremendous hit in the post-war years.

If ever a research poll were carried out to determine the most popular post-war number, Glenn Miller’s recording of In The Mood (original recording: 1 August 1939) would surely come out on top. Realizing that nothing could possibly improve this classic work, Kaempfert arranged the piece in a traditional manner. ---kaempfert.de

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Bert Kaempfert and His Orchestra - Dreaming The Blues (1970)

2017-12-30T14:14:30Z

Bert Kaempfert and His Orchestra - Dreaming The Blues (1970)


1    Answer Me My Love
2    April in Portugal
3    The Bass Walks
4    Blue Moon
5    Catalania
6    Cherokee
7    Dreaming the Blues
8    Explorer
9    Flutter's Holiday
10    Happy Trumpeter

As the '50s moved into the '60s, Bert Kaempfert was one of the most successful conductors, arrangers and recording artists and through his great talent and ability he forged a distinctive sound of his own.

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Bert Kaempfert and His Orchestra - Wonderland By Night (1960)

2015-02-03T16:33:57Z

Bert Kaempfert and His Orchestra - Wonderland By Night (1960)


1.    Wonderland by Night (Wunderland Bei Nacht)
2.    La Vie en Rose
3.    Happiness Never Comes Too Late (Das Gluck Kommt Nie Zu Spat)
4.    On the Alamo
5.    As I Love You
6.    Dreaming the Blues
7.    Tammy
8.    The Aim of My Desires (Das Ziel Meiner Wunscase)
9.    This Song Is Yours Alone (Diesses Lied Gehort Nur Dir)
10.    Drifting and Dreaming (Sweet Paradise)
11.    Stay with Me
12.    Lullaby for Lovers

Trumpet Solo – Charly Tabor

Wonderland by Night was Bert Kaempfert's first big international success -- propelled by the presence of the number one charting title track, a moody, wistful instrumental authored by Klaus Gunter-Neumann that recalled the late big band era, it also reached the top spot on the American charts and became a favorite of middle-brow listeners just getting into the new innovations of hi-fi and stereo. Today it all seems tame, mostly because it was safe retro-pop-instrumental music executed with a great deal of elegance, which overcomes the sappiness of material such as "Tammy." The title track is the most recognizable piece here, but all of the album will sound familiar, pieces like "The Aim of My Desires" and "This Song Is Your Alone" having become the stuff of "respectable" pop-instrumental music -- the American big band sound recycled by its German admirers -- until the mid-'60s. It all sounds like stuff that you've heard, probably because, if you were born before 1956, you likely did, in those moments when your parents settled down after dinner (assuming that you lived in someplace like the Cleaver household on Leave It to Beaver). But seriously, this is nicely executed, safe, uncompelling but appealing pop music wallpaper from that period when the 1950s were ending but the 1960s hadn't really begun. ---Bruce Eder, Rovi

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Bert Kaempfert Orchestra - Bye Bye Blues & To The Good Life (1999)

2014-03-20T16:55:14Z

Bert Kaempfert Orchestra - Bye Bye Blues & To The Good Life (1999)


01. Bye Bye Blues [02:55]
02. Remember When [03:00]
03. When You're Smiling [02:47]
04. Tahitian Sunset [02:31]
05. Once In A While [03:11]
06. Steady Does It [03:12]
07. It Makes No Difference [03:14]
08. You Stepped Out Of A Dream [03:05]
09. Wiederseh'n [02:51]
10. I'm Beginnind To See The Light [03:05]
11. Melina [03:07]
12. Out Of Nowhere [03:12]
13. Take The A Train [03:13]
14. The Sunny Side Of Life [03:13]
15. My Melancholy Baby [02:54]
16. Time To Dream [02:48]
17. What Is This Thing Called Love [02:40]
18. Lover's Wonderland [03:38]
19. Wheeling Free [03:22]
20. The Good Life [02:19]
21. Berts Bossa No.2 [03:12]
22. Skyliner [03:13]
23. Manhatten Merengue [02:49]
24. Honeysuckle Rose [03:17]

Bert Kaempfert was coasting at the peak of his popularity when he released Bye Bye Blues in early 1966. Perhaps that's the reason why he decided not to change his formula at all on this breezy collection of standards, originals, and contemporary tunes. The title is no joke: this is a sunny album without a care in the world, lightly swinging to its own beat. Kaempfert's big, brassy arrangements are appealing but a little similar, which means that the entire record kind of blends together; there's no beginning or end, just 12 easy listening tunes that flow into the next. That means, naturally, that nothing -- not even hit singles like the title track -- stands out, which logically means that this isn't one of the more distinctive albums in his canon. Nevertheless, Bye Bye Blues is a pleasant album, ideal for background cocktail music, which is all that Kaempfert fans old or young will want anyway. [Ironically, the seven bonus tracks that were added to the end of the album on Taragon's 1999 reissue had a more distinctive sound than anything on the record itself, ranging from sharper swing to choral-laden, syrupy ballads. Among the bonus tracks were five previously unreleased cuts, including "Sweet Romance" (which was originally released on a single as "Love for Love"), and the original LP version of "Monte Carlo," which was originally on The Magic Music of Far Away Places. Taragon's CD reissue of that title includes a previously unreleased alternate take of "Monte Carlo." --- Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi

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The Very Best Of Bert Kaempfert (1995)

2014-12-29T17:11:08Z

The Very Best Of Bert Kaempfert (1995)


01. Wonderland By Night (3:17)
02. Tenderly (3:16)
03. Now And Forever (2:51)
04. Afrikaan Beat (2:28)
05. That Happy Feeling (2:55)
06. A Swingin' Safari (3:09)
07. Magic Trumpet (Happy Trumpeter) (2:40)
08. Danke Schoen (3:16)
09. L-O-V-E (Love) (2:07)
10. Red Roses For A Blue Lady (2:24)
11. Three O'Clock In The Morning (2:36)
12. Spanish Eyes (Moon Over Naples) (2:40)
13. Bye Bye Blues (2:57)
14. Strangers In The Night (3:23)
15. Lady (3:13)
16. The World We Knew (Over And Over) (3:30)

Bert Kaempfert may have signed and lost the Beatles, but this CD is a reminder that he never lacked for hit records of his own, and had his own influence on popular culture around the world. The Very Best of Bert Kaempfert isn't quite a comprehensive collection of Kaempfert's hits, but it will have special resonances to listeners of a certain age group, and it covers a few bases that would be missed by a strict adherence to chart placements. In addition to the expected hits such as "Wonderland by Night," "Three O'Clock in the Morning," "Spanish Eye (Moon Over Naples)," "Danke Schon," and "Red Roses for a Blue Lady," the producers have included several non-charting singles of high quality, such as "L-O-V-E (Love)" and a handful of key representative LP tracks, among them "Magic Trumpet (Happy Trumpeter)," to illustrate the breadth of Kaempfert's work. Also notable is trio of tracks whose main recognition came from their use as incidental music -- "Afrikaan Beat" was a hit in its own right but beyond that, for decades, it turned up as a piece of bridge music used by New York-area children's television host Sandy Becker as a lead-in for segments, and was used for years after as transition music to news items on New York radio; "That Happy Feeling," similarly, was used by Becker as background music for many of his crazier and more memorable dance sequences on his show, and turned up for years afterward on WNEW-TV as incidental background music; and "A Swingin' Safari," in a cover by Billy Vaughn, was adapted as the theme to NBC's The Match Game show. Also featured are Kaempfert's own versions of his two contributions to Frank Sinatra's repertory, "Strangers in the Night" and "The World We Knew (Over and Over)." The sound is excellent -- everything is crisp and clean, the trumpet sounds like it's about three feet from the listener -- and the annotation and discography information are also very thorough. ---Bruce Eder, Rovi

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