Toots Thielemans
European Quartet LIVE
- Type CD
- Label Challenge Jazz
- UPC 0608917016024
- Catalog number CHR 70160
- Release date 03 January 2011
About the album
Toots Thielemans: harmonica
Karel Boehlee: piano and synthesizer
Hein Van de Geyn: double bass
Hans van Oosterhout: drums
The band with Toots, Karel Boehlee, Hans van Oosterhout and Hein Van de Geyn, exists for many years now and there are concerts in many places. Then there was the tour in Holland in 2006. Many theaters, many great audiences that always embraced us with so much warmth. Chris Weeda, the sound engineer, was the fifth member of the band. Always making the music sound warm, full, generous - and recording many of the performances. The music was strong, confident, full of life and vibrancy. Toots played so well, everyone played well. There were more concerts the years after and Chris and Hein Van de Geyn found themselves with a wealth of recorded material.
This is an album so representative of Toots' live performances, an album that captured the joy, the risks and interaction; an album that captivates the majestic melodies, the singing of a man that lived such a life filled with music and emotion.
The wise old man, with the spirit of a teenager. The delicate balance between the introspective and the exuberant - always giving, always with the desire to communicate - communicate to the fellow musicians, communicate to the listener. In Toots words: “Between a smile and a tear...” these sublime live-recordings taken from concerts of Toots Thielemans with his quartet.
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11I Loves You Porgy03:27
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12Summertime05:39
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13Começar De Novo06:58
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14The Days Of Wine And Roses05:47
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15Circle Of Smile (theme from: Baantjer)03:16
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16Round Midnight03:07
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17Les Feuilles Mortes05:54
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18Theme from Midnight Cowboy04:27
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19On Green Dolphin Street06:01
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110Ne Me Quitte Pas03:55
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111Bluesette04:40
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112For My Lady03:05
Review by Scott Yanow: Kenny Werner | Hein van de Geyn | Hans van Oosterhout - Collaboration
04-09-2013
Collaboration has a dozen fascinating and mostly free improvisations by the great pianist Kenny Werner in a trio.
Pianist Kenny Werner, bassist Hein Van De Geyn and drummer Hans Van Oosterhout have worked together on an occasional basis in the past including taking a short tour and functioning as Toots Thielemans’ quartet for a few concerts. But while the musicians are familiar with each other, they have not performed together all ...
Ward Hessels