SWR Big Band plays the music of Sammy Nestico - More Than Ju

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SWR
Release Date
May 9, 2025
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Harold Arlen, Ben Bernie, Jack Brooks, Sonny Burke, Bob Carleton, Kenneth Casey, Al Dubin, Victor He
    • PERFORMER
      SWR Big Band
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 09, 2025
    • UPC
      747313916580
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SWR19165CD
    • LABEL
      SWR
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Big Band
    Works ⌄

    1. Ill Wind

      Composer: Harold Arlen

      Ensemble: SWR Big Band

      Performer: Tutu Puoane

      Conductor: Marc Godfroid

    2. Ja-Da

      Composer: Bob Carleton

      Ensemble: SWR Big Band

      Performer: Bastian Stein, Jürgen Neudert

      Conductor: Marc Godfroid

    3. Frankie and Johnny

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: SWR Big Band

      Performer: Andreas Maile, Ernst Hutter

      Conductor: Marc Godfroid

    4. A Pair of Aces

      Composer: Sammy Nestico

      Ensemble: SWR Big Band

      Performer: Christian Mehler, Jakob Manz

      Conductor: Marc Godfroid

    5. Just Friends

      Composer: John Klenner

      Ensemble: SWR Big Band

      Performer: Tutu Puoane, Matthias Erlewein

      Conductor: Marc Godfroid

    6. D'Ann

      Composer: Sammy Nestico

      Ensemble: SWR Big Band

      Performer: Christian Mehler, Frank Kuruc

      Conductor: Marc Godfroid

    7. The Sound of Music: My Favorite Things

      Composer: Richard Rodgers

      Ensemble: SWR Big Band

      Performer: Axel Kühn

      Conductor: Marc Godfroid

    8. Shirley

      Composer: Sammy Nestico

      Ensemble: SWR Big Band

      Performer: Klaus Wagenleiter, Loreen Sima

      Conductor: Marc Godfroid

    9. Sweet Georgia Brown

      Composer: Ben Bernie, Maceo Pinkard

      Ensemble: SWR Big Band

      Performer: Bastian Stein, Frank Kuruc

      Conductor: Marc Godfroid

    10. Indian Summer

      Composer: Victor Herbert

      Ensemble: SWR Big Band

      Performer: Tutu Puoane

      Conductor: Marc Godfroid

    11. That's Amore

      Composer: Harry Warren

      Ensemble: SWR Big Band

      Performer: Andreas Maile, Marc Godfroid

      Conductor: Marc Godfroid

    12. Close Enough for Love

      Composer: Johnny Mandel

      Ensemble: SWR Big Band

      Performer: Jakob Manz

      Conductor: Marc Godfroid

    13. King Porter Stomp

      Composer: Jelly Roll Morton

      Ensemble: SWR Big Band

      Performer: Martin Auer, Bastian Stein, Klaus Graf, Matthias Erlewein

      Conductor: Marc Godfroid

    14. Out of the Night

      Composer: Sammy Nestico

      Ensemble: SWR Big Band

      Performer: Axel Kühn, Frank Kuruc, Decebal Badila, Guido Jöris

      Conductor: Marc Godfroid


Founded in 1951 by Erwin Lehn, The SWR Big Band has been nominated for a Grammy several times and received the German Jazz Award (Gold) in 2015. Over the course of the years, it collaborated with artists like Quincy Jones, Pat Metheny, George Benson, Gary Burton, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Curtis Stigers, Jacob Collier, Patti Austin, Roy Hargrove, Sammy Nestico, Ivan Lins, Paula Morelenbaum, Joo Kraus, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Bob Florence, Rob McConnell, Slide Hampton, Maria Schneider, Frank Foster, Bill Holman and Bob Mintzer. The album SWR Big Band live at the Elbphilharmonie from 2018 is one of the longest running bestsellers of the label. The collaboration between Sammy Nestico and The SWR Big Band began 2004, when the composer was already 80 years old. Soon it developed into a real friendship. No less than five albums have been released in the years until his death, all of them bestsellers of the SWRmusic catalogue. They additionaly made a key contribution to raising international awareness of Nestico's late creative phase. The music he wrote for The SWR Big Band sports both funky sounds and elements of fusion, combining swing, a pinch of soul and an emotional orchestral expression. The music moves artfully between reduced combo sounds and opulent textures. This sense of mutual understanding was created during the decade-plus period of collaboration between the composer and the orchestra, a collaboration built not only on notes, but also on intuition.