Wolfgang Ahlers Discography of CDs

Wolfgang Ahlers CD discography Leading the German NDR Big Band, saxophonist Pee Wee Ellis turns in a competent, occasionally stilted collection of soul-jazz and classic funk. The production and the playing is a bit too mannered for the music to actually catch fire, but there are moments -- such as Fred Wesley's cameo on "Tune with a View" ...

Wolfgang Ahlers discography Recording information: NDR Studio One, Hamburg, Germany (05/22/1995-05/31/1995). Arrangers: Jörg Achim Keller; Rob Pronk; Bill Holman. Personnel: Klaus Weiss (drums); Klaus Weiss; Fiete Felsch (soprano saxophone, alto saxophone); Peter Bolte (alto saxophone); Christof Lauer, Lutz Büchner, Ralph Reichert (tenor saxophone); Stephan Pfeifer-Galilea (baritone saxophone); Johannes Faber, Ingolf Burkhardt, Lennart Axelsson, Reiner Winterschladen (trumpet); Lucas Schmid, Wolfgang ...

Wolfgang Ahlers albums Veteran trombonist Phil Wilson arranged seven pieces from the film The Wizard of Oz and turned them into an engaging suite, accompanied by several great soloists and the NDR Big Band. "Over the Rainbow" is an obvious choice, since it has long since become a jazz standard; he gives it a loping treatment over ...

Wolfgang Ahlers CD discography 2009 reissue of the German easy listening legend's 1976 album. 12 tracks. Recording information: Studio Rahlstedt, Hamburg, Germany (1976). Personnel: Jurgen Schroder, Helmut Franke (guitar); Ferdinand Povel, Emil Wurster, James Towsey, Herb Geller, Harald Ende, Karl Hermann Luer (flute, clarinet, saxophone); Ack Van Rooyen (trumpet, flugelhorn); Werner Gutterer, Bob Lanese, Leif Uvemark, Heinz Habermann, Tony Fisher ...

Wolfgang Ahlers music CDs Recorded between 1969 and 1980. Personnel: Rolf Kühn (clarinet); Stu Martin (vocals, drums, bells); Toto Blanke (guitar, electric guitar); Philip Catherine, Peter Weihe (guitar); Naná Vasconcelos (berimbau, percussion); Herb Geller (flute, reeds, saxophone); Charlie Mariano (reeds, saxophone); Phil Woods (saxophone, alto saxophone); Gerd Dudek (soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone); Larry Elam, Paul Kubatsch, Randy Brecker, Terumasa ...

Wolfgang Ahlers songs Recorded in Hamburg, Germany on April 23-27, 1990 and February 17-21, 1992. Includes liner notes by Mike Hennessey and Kurt Giese. Joe Pass was without peer as a jazz guitarist during the last two decades of his life; this is one of many expected posthumous releases to emerge since his death. Because Pass concentrated primarily on solo and ...