Studio Konzert for Headphones Barbara Dennerlein

• 1Gray May Blues (For Headphones)05:28
• 2Southern Funk (For Headphones)05:53
• 3Bluesy (For Headphones)08:53
• 4Under Construction (For Headphones)06:00
• Total Runtime26:14

Info for Studio Konzert for Headphones

Die Musik des Duos beruht auf großer musikalischer Freiheit, die von der wechselseitigen Inspiration der Duopartner genährt wird und gelegentlich wie ein großes Orchester klingt. Barbara Dennerlein weiß mit zwei Manualen, mit dem Synthesizer und dem von ihr individuell zur Perfektion entwickelten Spiel auf den Fußpedalen melodische Linien, Akkorde, Sounds und raffinierte, der Flexibilität eines Kontrabassisten entsprechende Bassfiguren zu entwickeln. Ihr musikalischer Partner Marcel Gustke folgt dem Drive der Organistin, begleitet sie straight oder umspielt sie mit komplexen Rhythmusgeflechten, legt Klangteppiche aus oder schafft räumlich-perkussive Stimmungen. Immer neue Höhen werden erreicht, oder ein seelenvoller Blues taucht Musiker und Zuhörer in ein entspanntes Wohlfühl-Bad. Musik, die einfach glücklich macht und hier in hervorragend audiophiler Handarbeit liebevoll gebracht.

"Das Studiokonzert von Barbara Dennerlein ist eine besten Orgelaufnahmen, die ich jemals gehört habe." (Jazzthetik, Joachim Weis)

"Und wieder so ein Hammer aus der "Live Direct to Two Track"-Linie der Bauer Studios (...) Exzellenter Sound, Top-Pressung." (AUDIO, Lothar Brandt)

Barbara Dennerlein, Hammond organ, Synthesizer
Marcel Gustke, Schlagzeug

Barbara Dennerlein
It is an awe-inspiring experience to watch Barbara live on stage. As the most important and most successful German jazz export, she is familiar with large international festival stages and intimate clubs alike. A list of venues where she has wowed audiences is as varied as it is long: the "Blue Note" and the "Sweet Basil" in New York, "Ronnie Scott's Club" and the "Jazz Café" in London and the "Blue Note" in Tokyo; Philadelphia, Berkley, San Jose, San Diego; the Montreal, Vancouver, Toronto, Edmonton, and Victoria jazz festivals; European festivals in The Hague, the North Sea Jazz Festival in the Netherlands, the Pori Jazz Festival in Finland, the Molde Jazz in Norway, the Arhus Jazz Festival in Denmark, the Maastricht-Kortrijk Festival in Belgium, the Vitoria Festival de Jazz in Spain, and German festivals in Berlin, Frankfurt, Leverkusen, Nuremberg, Vilshofen, Burghausen, Freiburg, Hamburg, Hanover and many others. Besides her nearly endless live performances, Barbara has made numerous appearances on both domestic and international radio and TV.

Both with her own "Bebab" group and solo, Barbara is equally celebrated by critics and audiences alike on both sides of the Atlantic. The name "Bebab" is a play on "Bebop" and "Barbara" and indicates something unique for which there is no established term, no pigeonhole. She knows the value of tradition but is also at home in modern jazz, in the here and now. She is one of the few musicians who can make the connection between different styles and audiences, building bridges between the musical past and present. She is just as familiar with the grooves of youth culture as with the listening experiences of a generation that grew up with the Hammond organ boom of the fifties.

Swing, bebop, blues, soul, latin and funk - for Barbara there are no rigid boundaries, only fluid transitions. Audiences are captivated by her talent, her absolute mastery of the instrument, her taste, and not least, her warm personality. The B3, it would seem, is a seamless extension of herself. She understands better than anyone how to exploit her instrument to the full, creating a sound and a musical style that is unmistakably "Barbara Dennerlein". Her brilliant technique has breathed new life into the venerable Hammond organ, an instrument long neglected in modern jazz. She can rightfully claim to have paved the way for the organ's current renaissance in jazz.

Born in Munich in 1964, she fell in love with one sound at an early age. While others were practicing "Für Elise" or strumming "All You Need Is Love" on the guitar, Barbara was fascinated by the sound of the Hammond organ.

She was eleven when the first home organ became part of the Dennerlein household. Her father, himself an organ fan, was acting a little bit out of self-interest when he bought the Christmas present. If Barbara lost interest, he could always play it himself! But it all turned out quite differently. Barbara never took her hands off the instrument again. And things didn't stop there either. The fourth instrument on which Barbara indulged in her passion was the "Holy Grail" of organs: an original Hammond long since out of production - the legendary Hammond B3.....

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