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Echoes of Swing & Rebecca Kilgore – Winter Days at Schloss Elmau (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:39 minutes | 986 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ACT Music
For over 20 years, Echoes of Swing have been an essential go-to band for lovers of classic jazz. They show quite how many sides there are to it, and do so in a way that is always consummately fresh. The quartet of Bernd Lhotzky (piano), Colin T. Dawson (trumpet), Chris Hopkins (alto saxophone) and Oliver Mewes (drums) breathe new life into the canon of the Jazz Age with their skill as players, their fine arrangements – and with a lot of humour. The band play their own compositions too. And each of their albums is built around a theme: after “Blue Pepper”, “Dancing”, “Travelin'” and the “Tribute to Bix Beiderbecke”, their new album “Winter Days at Schloss Elmau” is a winter walk, but with a swing to it. The new album continues in the line of superb recordings that ACT has made in the large concert hall at Schloss Elmau. Indeed, where would one find more inspiration for a winter album than in this unique location with its breathtaking views of the Bavarian Alps?
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Echoes of Swing – Travelin’ (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:38 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ACT Music
Most jazz musicians are also travellers. Their places of work are the clubs and festivals of the world, so they are always on the go. Echoes of Swing, however, has another dimension: This quartet is also on a journey through time, going back to classic jazz from the 20’s to the 50’s, bringing it into the present day and shaping it for the future. This “tour de force” has been going on for 20 years. A reason then to celebrate, which is perhaps best done by re-tracing the journey, reviving memories of things experienced, and looking at all that travelling involves.
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Echoes of Swing – Dancing (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:43 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ACT Music
Early Jazz was first and foremost Dance music, a fact which is all too easily forgotten these days. As each new Dance craze arrived on the scene, from Charleston and Ragtime, through Foxtrot and Lindy Hop, and then on to Jive, the development of Jazz music moved along with it, and it was only later that Jazz was established in the concert hall. The quartet Echoes Of Swing have put a clear marker down with their latest album ‘Dancing’.
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Echoes of Swing – Blue Pepper (2013/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:53 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ACT Music
On Blue Pepper, modern swing band Echoes Of Swing open a new chapter, a quantum leap forward from their last award winning release, with even more impressive arrangements and some outstanding original pieces. A concept album of sorts, all the tracks have the word “blue” in their titles or concern themselves with the colour. The legacy of the swing era is safe in the hands of these fine musicians.
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Echoes of Swing – BIX (A Tribute to Bix Beiderbecke) (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:01:09 minutes | 654 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ACT Music
Our perceptions of major figures in music from previous epochs tend to change over the course of time. There may indeed be something of a paradox here, because the innovators of the past are often only truly recognized and appreciated by later generations. The more energetically and decisively a pioneer has broken with the past, the more he (or she) will have been mistrusted and cast aside in their life-times, and the more is required from the rear-view mirror of posterity before they can start to be treated with respect, let alone with honour.
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