Bill Evans

Dream Band Live in Concert


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**2LP RELEASED 24/06/2022** 

Stars, drive, and heart: Brecker, Landgren, Evans and more - the ‘Dream Band’ of
drummer Wolfgang Haffner on a live double album. 

One can hear it within the first few seconds: this music project has been done for the sheer love of it. Bandleader Wolfgang Haffner gets the programme under way on the drums by building intensity step by step. He plays with attitude and propulsive power, and never a trace of just showing off. This was how Haffner began the autumn 2021 concerts by his Dream Band, so it is also what we hear at the start of this double album of recordings from the tour.

Known as the go-to rhythm anchor for all kinds of jazz, funk and pop units since the
1980s, he chose to indulge himself in some luxury casting, gathered together “my
favourite musicians,” and toured, with shows in thirteen German towns and cities.

Alongside Haffner’s trio with keyboardist Simon Oslender and bassist Thomas Stieger - a group freshly played-in from numerous summer concerts together - we find trumpeter Randy Brecker, saxophonist Bill Evans, trombonist Nils Landgren, plus the uniquely lively mind of vibraphonist / academic polymath Christopher Dell. In these recordings, the different band members each take turns to occupy centre-stage,
buoyed by Haffner’s artistry at the drums.

Tracklist

CD1
Drums Ahead (Wolfgang
Haffner)
Soulbop (Bill Evans)
New Life (Wolfgang Haffner)
Walk Tall (Nat Adderley)
Bones from the Ground
(Brooks Ritter)
Dando Vueltas (Wolfgang
Haffner)
Tubes (Wolfgang Haffner)
Star (Wolfgang Haffner)
Sweet Emma (Nat Adderley)
The Dipshit (Randy Brecker)
You Dig (Landgren / Jansson /
Price)
CD2
Get Here (Brenda Russell)
Tres Hermanos (Wolfgang
Haffner)
Q (Wolfgang Haffner)
Leo (Wolfgang Haffner)
Keep Going (Wolfgang
Haffner)
Simple Life (Wolfgang Haffner)
The Real Thing (Wolfgang
Haffner)
Jean Pierre (Miles Davis)
Silent Way (Wolfgang Haffner)

Soundwave

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6xebICwgVw