The Knut Kiesewetter Train – Stop! Watch! and Listen! (1970/2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

The Knut Kiesewetter Train – Stop! Watch! and Listen! (1970/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 39:11 minutes | 747 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © MPS

Singer Knut Kiesewetter has garnered his fair share of fame and fortune; over more than three decades Knut successfully sang his way through everything from pop to German Lieder, blues, and trad jazz on through to bebop, continually topping European polls as best jazz singer. Great Jazz-Groove album, “Stop! Watch! And Listen!” was released in 1970 by MPS Records and featuring Knut Kiesewetter on vocals and Dieter Reith at the Hammond Organ.

Knut’s “dream band” of one American and six European all-stars graces the cuts on S!W!&L!. Knut chose the songs as much for their stories as for the hip melodies. There’s the Golson classic Whisper Not with iconic jazz singer Jon Hendrick’s lyrics and a smoldering tenor solo, the romance of Blood Sweat and Tears’ Sometimes in Winter, the rock of Roll On The Left Side with its hip organ solo, and Nat Adderley’s Work Song featuring alto saxophonist Leo Wright of Dizzy Gillespie fame. Knut’s at his funky best on his Morning and Evening Blues, and he delivers a sensitive portrait of the Beatles’ Fool on the Hill. Knut treats Nina Simone’s lyrics on I Wish I Knew with the appropriate gospel tinge, and the classic standard Body and Soul lights up with the great Ack Van Rooyen’s bright, warm trumpet. Knut Kiesewetter grew up on the edge of the Baltic Sea, but sounds as if he would be more at home on Chicago’s South side or singing at Harlem’s Apollo Theater!

Tracklist:
1. The Knut Kiesewetter Train – Whisper Not (03:48)
2. The Knut Kiesewetter Train – Sometimes in Winter (04:13)
3. The Knut Kiesewetter Train – Roll on the Left Side (04:56)
4. The Knut Kiesewetter Train – Work Song (07:47)
5. The Knut Kiesewetter Train – Morning and Evening Blues (04:27)
6. The Knut Kiesewetter Train – Fool on the Hill (04:23)
7. The Knut Kiesewetter Train – I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free (05:04)
8. The Knut Kiesewetter Train – Body and Soul (04:31)

Personnel:
Knut Kiesewetter – vocals
Ack Van Rooyen – trumpet, flugelhorn
Leo Wright – alto saxophone, flute
Gerd Dudek – tenor saxophone
Dieter Reith – organ
Heinz Kitschenberg – guitar
Eberhard Weber – bass
Kenny Clare – drums

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