Over the Rainbow

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Label
Gramola Records
Release Date
September 7, 2018
Format
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    Featuring
    • COMPOSER
      VARIOUS
    • PERFORMER
      Rudi Wilfer
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 07, 2018
    • UPC
      9003643991668
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      GRAM99166
    • LABEL
      Gramola Records
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
    Works
    1. Li'l Darlin'

      Composer: Neal Hefti

      Performer: Rudi Wilfer

    2. The Sandpiper: The Shadow of Your Smile

      Composer: Johnny Mandel

      Performer: Rudi Wilfer

    3. The Two Lonely People

      Composer: Bill Evans

      Performer: Rudi Wilfer

    4. Orbit (Unless It's You)

      Composer: Bill Evans

      Performer: Rudi Wilfer

    5. Basin Street Blues

      Composer: Spencer Williams

      Performer: Rudi Wilfer

    6. Jumbo: My Romance

      Composer: Richard Rodgers

      Performer: Rudi Wilfer

    7. Baby Steps

      Composer: John Coltrane, Rudi Wilfer

      Performer: Rudi Wilfer

    8. The Wizard of Oz: Over the Rainbow

      Composer: Harold Arlen

      Performer: Rudi Wilfer


Austrian jazz pianist Rudi Wilfer is one of the great jazz minds of our time, who has had the privilege of playing with many of the greatest international jazz legends. With "Over the Rainbow", Wilfer now releases the logical sequel to his previous recording "Somewhere". Featuring new and very personal interpretations of standards like Basin Street Blues, The Shadow of Your Smile, Orbit, Baby Steps as a witty arrangement of John Coltrane's Giant Steps, or My Romance, Wilfer teaches his audience the meaning of silence and the space between the sounds. This album is a meditative, almost Buddhist statement from this extraordinary Austrian musician, and, focusing on his lyrical, romantic playing style, also a homage to Bill Evans, one of the most important and influential pianists of modern jazz, whom Wilfer got to know in the popular jazz club Village Vanguard in New York in 1979.