Ruud Breuls, Simon Rigter, Karel Boehlee, Jos Machtel and Marcel Serierse can play. No doubt about it. They belong to the absolute top of European Jazz. They have played with everybody who is somebody in the world of Jazz.
What really makes this album special is the love and dedication they bring to Louis Armstrong’s music. Listening to the 8 compositions presented here one realizes that genre is completely irrelevant. The 8 pieces of music were performed Live In The Studio in front of an audience of 80 people. The musicians were placed in front of a stereo pair of microphones with additional spot microphones on each instrument.
The musicians were playing without headphones, the reason being that we believe that when we get the musicians to play together in the same room, without headphones, it creates a number of musical and technical benefits. As they are not ‘separated’ by the headphones, the musicians, in order to hear each other are forced to create a natural and musical balance. A balance which is then easily captured by the main stereo pair of microphones.
Because of this natural and musical balance the need for compression to control levels is no longer necessary. Since everybody is in the same room, the boxed sound which is so common in many modern recordings is absent as the sound of the room helps ‘glue’ the sound of the recording.
The recording took place in the now legendary Studio 2, situated in the the building of the Dutch Music Centre of Broadcasters (MCO). It is the oldest recording studio in the Netherlands and has hosted a wealth of prominent artists; Django Reinhardt, was there in 1937, Jazz at the Philharmonic featuring Ella Fitzgerald in 1953, and in the 1960’ Wes Montgomery, Clark Terry and Eric Dolphy all recorded in the studio.
Ruud Breuls – Trumpet and Flugelhorn
Simon Rigter – Tenor Saxophone
Karel Boehlee – Piano
Jos Machtel – Double Bass
Marcel Serierse – Drums
Tracklist
Total time: 00:52:54
Additional information
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SKU | SL1027A |
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Artists | Jos Machtel, Karel Boehlee, Marcel Serierse, Ruud Breuls, Simon Rigter |
Composers | Bob Thiele / George David Weiss, Clarence Muse, Jelly Roll Morton, Jimmy McHugh / Dorothy Fields, Leon Rene and Otis Rene, Lil Armstrong, Percy Venable, Spencer Williams, W.C. Handy |
Genres | |
Amplifier | Moon 760A |
Cables | AudioQuest |
Digital Converters | Horus, Merging Technologies |
Editing Software | Pyramix, Merging Technologies |
Mastering Engineer | Frans de Rond and Peter Bjørnild |
Microphone Preamps | Horus, Merging Technologies |
Microphones | Main system: Schoeps MK5 (AB) – Ruud: Josephson C700 – Simon: Josephson C716 – Karel: Josephson C617 (2x) – Jos: Josephson C700 – Marcel: Schoeps MK2 (overheads) – Audix D6 (basdrum), Micpre's: Merging Horus |
Mixing Headphones | Sennheiser HD800, AKG 702 |
Original Recording Format | |
Producer | Sound Liaison and Ruud Breuls |
Recording Engineer | Frans de Rond for Sound Liaison |
Recording Location | MCO, Studio 2, Hilversum, The Netherlands in 2016 |
Recording Software | Pyramix, Merging Technologies |
Recording Type & Bit Rate | DXD |
Speakers | TAD CE-1 |
Release Date | August 24, 2018 |
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Jazzenzo
The repertoire of the legendary Louis Armstrong is central to ‘Wild Man Blues’ by the Ruud Breuls / Simon Rigter Quintet.
Classics such as On The Sunny Side Of The Street, Basin Street Blues, Wild Man Blues, St. Louis Blues, and What A Wonderful World are featured on this live tribute concert.
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