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Spiritual Standards - Songs Inspired by Martin Luther

Markus Burger / Jan von Klewitz

Spiritual Standards - Songs Inspired by Martin Luther

Price: € 19.95
Format: CD
Label: Challenge Records
UPC: 0608917341720
Catnr: CR 73417
Release date: 10 February 2017
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Challenge Records
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0608917341720
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CR 73417
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10 February 2017
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Critically acclaimed German jazz performers Markus Burger and Jan von Klewitz blend modern improvisation with the art of interpreting faith based Baroque music while preserving its integrity. Staying very near to the original melodies and canti firmi, the artists improvise in a linear manner returning to one of the root principles of jazz. For the past four years Burger and von Klewitz have been traveling the US and Europe as musical Ambassadors of the Luther Decade. For these tours Burger has arranged most of Martin Luther’s hymns into his signature sounding arrangements for saxophone and piano. Luther has written captivating melodies that withstood the test of time and have inspired the worlds greatest composer Johann Sebastian Bach to arrange them in some of the most beautiful four voice chorales known to mankind.
Der viel gelobte deutsche Jazzkünstler Markus Burger und Jan von Klewitz verbinden moderne Improvisation mit der Kunst glaubensbegründeter Barockmusik und erhalten dabei deren Integrität. Sie bleiben sehr nah an den originalen Melodien und Canti firmi, improvisieren linear und kehren dadurch zu den Wurzeln des Jazz zurück.

In den letzten vier Jahren haben Burger und Klewitz die USA und Europa als musikalische Botschafter des Lutherischen Jahrzehnts bereist. Für diese Touren hat Burger einen Großteil von Martin Luthers Hymnen charakteristisch für Saxophon und Klavier arrangiert.

Luther hat packende Melodien verfasst, die die Jahrhunderte überdauert und den weltgrößten Komponisten Johann Sebastian Bach dazu inspiriert haben, sie in einigen der schönsten vierstimmigen Choräle zu arrangieren, die wir kennen.

Artist(s)

Markus Burger (piano)

Markus Burger (born September 30, 1966) is a German pianist, composer and music educator currently residing in Santa Monica, California, who teaches at Los Angeles City College and Fullerton College in Los Angeles. He works in a variety of genres, including jazz, New Age, chamber and film. His music has been performed in Europe, the former Soviet Union, Africa, and most recently in the United States. He began studying piano at age six and later earned his Diplom in Performing Arts from the Essen Folkwang Hochschule in Germany, a B.A. in piano and Composition from the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands and a Certification in Popular Music from the University of Hamburg, Germany. He studied with Peter Walter, John Taylor,...
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Markus Burger (born September 30, 1966) is a German pianist, composer and music educator currently residing in Santa Monica, California, who teaches at Los Angeles City College and Fullerton College in Los Angeles. He works in a variety of genres, including jazz, New Age, chamber and film.
His music has been performed in Europe, the former Soviet Union, Africa, and most recently in the United States. He began studying piano at age six and later earned his Diplom in Performing Arts from the Essen Folkwang Hochschule in Germany, a B.A. in piano and Composition from the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands and a Certification in Popular Music from the University of Hamburg, Germany. He studied with Peter Walter, John Taylor, Kenny Wheeler and Kenny Werner.
He has released eight albums, featuring his own compositions and arrangements, among them, his two most recent releases, Genesis and Tertia. His CD Genesis, an avant-garde jazz collaboration with renowned drummer Matt Marucci, has received raving reviews from jazz critics in the United States while his latest Spiritual Standards project Tertia, with Berlin-based saxophonist Jan Von Klewitz, made its debut during a nationally televised performance in Germany on New Year's Day, 2005. His second album, The Smile of the Honeycake Horse, with his quartet Septer Bourbon, received wide acclaim from the European press and Down Beat Magazine in the United States and achieved something of a “cult following” in Germany. His Spiritual Standards project, a collection of contemporary jazz improvisations of Johann Sebastian Bach’s greatest chorals and masterpieces, was performed at sold out venues in Germany, Poland, Italy and the United States, later moving to the top 20 in the German Jazz charts in 1999.
In developing his signature sound over the years, Burger drew his influences from a wide range of musical styles including J.S. Bach, Claude Debussy, Keith Jarrett, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Pat Metheny, Elton John, Stevie Wonder and Sting.

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Jan von Klewitz (saxophone)

Jan von Klewitz ( born March 7, 1964 in Zagreb ) is a German jazz saxophonist. From Klewitz spent part of his childhood in Copenhagen, where he received his first piano lessons. From 1972, he lived with his family in Berlin, where he only got clarinet and later saxophone lessons from 1976th After high school studied at the Cologne University of Music and was a member of Youth Jazz Orchestra Rheinland-Pfalz, with whom he went on several tours abroad (USA, Malta). During his studies he worked with Gene Mighty Flea Connors, Ulla Oster Beyond Janis, the band Heinz, Georg Ruby, Dieter Manderscheid and Reinhard Kobialka. He was also involved in several albums of productions JazzHausMusik. In 1991 he moved back to...
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Jan von Klewitz ( born March 7, 1964 in Zagreb ) is a German jazz saxophonist.
From Klewitz spent part of his childhood in Copenhagen, where he received his first piano lessons. From 1972, he lived with his family in Berlin, where he only got clarinet and later saxophone lessons from 1976th After high school studied at the Cologne University of Music and was a member of Youth Jazz Orchestra Rheinland-Pfalz, with whom he went on several tours abroad (USA, Malta). During his studies he worked with Gene Mighty Flea Connors, Ulla Oster Beyond Janis, the band Heinz, Georg Ruby, Dieter Manderscheid and Reinhard Kobialka. He was also involved in several albums of productions JazzHausMusik. In 1991 he moved back to Berlin, where he founded his own quartet with Wolfgang Köhler, Henning Sieverts and Bill Elgart. He became a member of the German-French Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Albert Mangelsdorff and Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra with Alexander von Schlippenbach, Evan Parker, Aki Takase and Ernst Ludwig Petrowsky. He also played in a double quartet Double Dose with Conny and Matthias Bauer and the quartet Gossip and Heinz Sauer. At this time played Klewitz addition to numerous film music productions with Wolfgang Dauner, Stefan Lotter man, John Schroeder, Steve Argüelles, Rudi Neuwirth, Michel Godard, Bob Degen and Christopher Dell. He went on numerous national and international festivals such as the North Sea Jazz Festival, the Jazz Baltica or the International Burghausen Jazz Week and was for the Goethe-Institut with the band Yakou Tribe on Africa tour. In 2007 he played with Christian von Kaphengsts Quartet Cafe Du Sport in India and Pakistan. For the existing since 1999 Quartet Yakou Tribe [1] (with Kai Brückner (g), Johannes Gunkel (b), and Rainer Winch (d)), he also composes his own pieces. Together with pianist Markus Burger he has presented a series of now four CDs with spiritual standards, which make use of both and European hymns. He also plays in the Wülker Group in Jazz Indeed with Michael Schiefel as a singer and with Thärichens Tentett headed by Nicolai Thärichen. Jan von Klewitz is the brother of Anti von Klewitz.

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He enriched established German styles through his skill in counterpoint, harmonic and motivic organisation, and the adaptation of rhythms, forms, and textures from abroad, particularly from Italy and France. Bach's compositions include the Brandenburg Concertos, the Goldberg Variations, the Mass in B minor, two Passions, and hundreds of cantatas. His music is revered for its technical command, artistic beauty, and intellectual depth.  Bach's abilities as an organist were highly respected during his lifetime, although he was not widely recognised as a great composer until a revival of interest in and performances of his music in the first half of the 19th century. He is now generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time.  
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Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He enriched established German styles through his skill in counterpoint, harmonic and motivic organisation, and the adaptation of rhythms, forms, and textures from abroad, particularly from Italy and France. Bach's compositions include the Brandenburg Concertos, the Goldberg Variations, the Mass in B minor, two Passions, and hundreds of cantatas. His music is revered for its technical command, artistic beauty, and intellectual depth.

Bach's abilities as an organist were highly respected during his lifetime, although he was not widely recognised as a great composer until a revival of interest in and performances of his music in the first half of the 19th century. He is now generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time.


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