bebop-orientet Tune for alto from the CD "Jazz vibration"
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Two Tunes for flute, also from the CD "Jazz vibration"
The Beckie Becker Quartett (BBQ) was founded in 1964. It became well-known at Mönchengladbach with numerous gigs in the clubs of the British RAF Germany (Royal Air Force) an other jazzclubs in North Rhine-Wesphalia germany and by playing at the 1967-Jazzfestival of Beek en Donk in the Netherlands.
A reunion of members of the former jazzgroup Karl-Heinz "Beckie" Becker and Reinhard Schmitz took place in 2007, joined with new musicians: Peter Schleußer on bass and Christian Hülsmann, an extraordinary young drummer (now life at cologne)
During the last years the group became more and more appreciated by jazz lovers of the region. The new CD "Jazz Vibration" offers a broad stylistic range from the styles of Lionel Hampton to the sounds of Dave Pike Set or Herbie Mann. All compositions are written by Reinhard Schmitz in different Styles form mainstream to modern tunes.Look on channel "klarinette06" at youtube.com , you will find some nice clips there.
Swing Affair, a septett with as, tp and tb in front-formation. One of the early compositions.
After training of the chromatic-scale as shown in "symmetry. Here is a spontanoues Blues with the use of the scale.
transfer this solo in "anytune", make it slow. Here the timing of J. Noone and try to make it possible for your own staccato.
It's a lot of fun to reduce a komplex composition like "die Moldau" from smetana as a five minute "Miniatur" for soloclarinet.
three little motives works together. The idea comes to me while I heard the "cigales" in france.
Rena Janßen were our Vocalist with Septett the " Swing Affair" and with Trio "Tri Jazz" over many years. the picture is from Altstadtfest 1995 in Dinslaken NRW. Rena is unforgotten , we are very thankfull playing with her.
Her last session with Scala Band was 2019 iin Weseler Kulturhaus Scala. Listen at mp3 below
