Strangers In Night - The Music Of Bert Kaempfert
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| Video by Berlin Jazz Orchestra | ||||
| Released | September 12, 2012 | |||
| Recorded | recorded live February 12, 2008 at Alte Oper in Frankfurt, Germany | |||
| Genre | Jazz, Pop Music | |||
| Length | 65 Minutes | |||
| Label | Polydor/Universal | |||
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Strangers In Night - The Music Of Bert Kaempfert is the Berlin Jazz Orchestra's first home video, released on DVD September 21, 2012 by Polydor/Universal Entertainment. The DVD is a live recording from the Alte Oper on February 12, 2008 in Frankfurt, Germany.
Strangers In Night - The Music Of Bert Kaempfert is the Berlin Jazz Orchestra's first home video, released on DVD September 21, 2012. This was produced using a big band, strings and choir, playing the music of Kaempfert's and conducted by former alumni, trombonist Jiggs Whigham. The DVD documents and is an edited production of one of four concerts the Berlin Jazz Orchestra performed in early 2008. The particular concert documented/presented on the DVD is a live recording and video from Frankfurt, Germany at the Alte Oper on February 12, 2008.
On DVD the recording includes Kaempfert’s well known songs such as Spanish Eyes, Wonderland By Night, You Turned My World Around and Strangers In The Night. Soloists included Ack van Rooyen (flugelhorn, trumpet), Herb Geller (saxophone, flute), Jiggs Whigham (trombone) and Ladi Geisler (bass) together with several of Bert Kaempfert’s past musicians from his orchestras. This concert and DVD includes jazz singers Sylvia Vrethammar, Marc Secara as well as pianist and entertainer Joja Wendt.
The live recording for Polydor Records originated from the concert of February 12, 2008 at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, Germany. The concert/DVD was toured in four different German cities to Include Berlin, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf and Hamburg. Follow up to this CD is Now and Forever - Secara meets Kaempfert released by Silver Spot Records in 2011.
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