Today there is a new feature on the blog "post from Weimar", since I for health reasons, the tour of Weimar-Big Band 18 Visit April does not, I could have Widolf Kreyer asked for a guest article, and here it is (text and photos Widolf Kreyer):
Matthias Bätzel on the Hammond organ The almost regular monthly on Sunday evening from 20:30 clock held concerts of the Weimar-Big-Band in the Weimar Kasseturm you can now call a legend without exaggeration.
from the enthusiastic audience and inspiring musicians around the guiding spirit Matthias "Matze" Eichhorn absolute quality of its musical and swinging is offered!
Matthias Eichhorn on bass doing so, the band prepares almost immediately before the concert - on each Sunday afternoon - on the evening concert in front, with some members traveling from, inter alia, Leipzig, Dresden, Eisenach and Halle. The cast, apart from occasional and temporary reassignments largely stable.
For me, every concert was a real experience and musical climax! However, what the last concert on 18 April has been offered, everything was far exceeded, the whole had a new, previously unknown side: open and modern. Matthias Bätzel, who otherwise regularly plays the piano in this band, took up with Hammond organ and choruses fantastic, wow!
also recorded as a soloist particularly Antonio Lucaciu (as), Michael Arnold and Nils Alf (ts), Oliver Witzel (tb), Christoph Bernewitz (guitar) and Matthias Eichhorn (b).
In any case, the "drummer" Jan Roth left unmentioned, the always fantastic returns "groove" and thus The band drives excellent. Widolf Kreyer, Weimar