Jesse van Ruller: "Morandi"

#volkerkriegel #guitar #jazz
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MORANDI is a composition by Volker Kriegel
arranged by Jim McNeely
MILD MANIAC - Hommage to Volker Kriegel
Jesse van Ruller, Martin Scales, John Schröder | guitar
Jim McNeely | conductor
Soloists: Jesse van Ruller, g; Steffen Weber, ts
Live-Recording at hr-Sendesaal, Frankfurt, November 23rd 2018
Like no other German musician before him, Volker Kriegel has opened jazz to rock and fusion, first in the legendary “Dave Pike Set”, later in his own “Mild Maniac Orchestra” and not to forget in the “United Jazz + Rock Ensemble”.
On the 15th anniversary of his death and 75th birthday in 2018, the Frankfurt Radio Big Band remembered the brilliant guitarist, who as a musician developed his own unique handwriting, just as he was known to have done as an author and illustrator. Since it would be pointless to try to copy such an individualist anyway, three outstanding guitarists of the post-Kriegel generation will appear here to interpret his compositions in their own different ways. The Frankfurt Radio Big Band with an obituary of the Darmstadt born and avowed Wiesbadener, who spent his musically formative years as a sociology student in Frankfurt.
deutsch:
Wie kein anderer deutscher Musiker zuvor hat Volker Kriegel den Jazz hin zu Rock und Fusion geöffnet, zunächst im legendären Dave Pike Set, später in seinem eigenen Mild Maniac Orchestra und natürlich im United Jazz + Rock Ensemble.
Zum 15. Todes- und 75. Geburtstag in 2018 hat sich die hr-Bigband an den genialischen Gitarristen erinnert, der als Musiker eine ganz eigene Handschrift entwickelte, so wie ihm das bekanntlich auch als Autor und Zeichner gelang. Weil es ohnehin müßig wäre, einen solchen Individualisten kopieren zu wollen, treten hier gleich drei herausragende Gitarristen der Generation nach Kriegel an, um seine Kompositionen auf ihre je unterschiedliche Weise zu interpretieren. Die hr-Bigband mit einem Nachruf auf den gebürtigen Darmstädter und bekennenden Wiesbadener, der seine musikalisch prägenden Jahre als Soziologie-Student in Frankfurt verbrachte.
www.hr-bigband.de
hr-Bigband:
trumpets: Marko Mebus, Thomas Vogel, Martin Auer, Axel Schlösser
saxophones: Heinz-Dieter Sauerborn, Oliver Leicht, Tony Lakatos, Steffen Weber, Rainer Heute
trombones: Günter Bollmann, Shannon Barnett, Christian Jaksjö, Manfred Honetschläger
rhodes: Peter Reiter
bass: Hans Glawischnig
drums: Jean Paul Höchstädter
Credits:
Olaf Stötzler, manager Frankfurt Radio Bigband
Lucia Rosu, executive producer
Axel Gutzler, sound-engineer
Rainer Schwarz, sound-engineer
camera: Johannes Monteux, Jens Meffert, Jens Benner, David Elias Kar
technical production: Eric Kirchheim
live-streaming: Jürgen Hanssum
recording management: Matthias Hohn
production manager: Hartmuth Niemczik
producer: Manuel Meyer
A production of Hessischer Rundfunk © 2018

[@arianluna4548]

Bittersweet ! Just how I like it. Thank you.

[@mariateresacantonbetancour2868]

Amenzingly beautiful

[@antoniotosques]

yesss

[@seanconstantine34]

Maestro!!

[@hrbigband]

Thanks for saying it, Sean Constantine. It's a beautiful tone. So true!

[@alexandrepalet9601]

That’s an amazing tone... anyone knows the amp he is using?

[@tehjohnsonite]

No idea specifically, but some googling brings up a boutique version of a Fender Bassman that was used at least at some point for album recording.

[@pallhe]

There are three guitar amps on the stage. Jesse seems to be playing the Fender silverface. Can't see which type it is.