During her West Coast concerts Barbara visited the great Pete Fallico in his Doodlin Lounge — the best spot on the web for jazz organ.
Click on the above link to see visit him, and click on the photo to hear Pete’s other interviews.
Here’s Barbara & Pete:
Barbara shared a few photos from her recent concert ins São Paulo, Brazil. Good news for fans in Brazil, the promoters are already working on new dates for 2011, this time she will also be preforming in Rio.
Just click on the photos below to enlarge them.
If you’re in Germany you might not be able to watch this clip. There is a copyright dispute that Barbara is trying to get resolved, until then please go to Barbara’s homepage to see the clip.
| Barbara’s new CD “Bebabaloo” will be available from May 14th on. As a special service for Barbara’s fans it is possible to purchase and/or download the CD through Barbara’s homepage already by now:
http://www.barbaradennerlein.com/en/bebabrecords/ This fascinating live CD was recorded at a highly celebrated concert in May 2009 at the Lokschuppen hall in Heidenheim/Germany. The unique atmosphere of this landmarked hall, the irrepressible spirit of the musicians and the enthusiastic audience made the concert evening a magic moment of Jazz. Welcome aboard! Please fasten your seatbelts and put your ears in an upright position! Captain Barbara Dennerlein and her Bebab Crew wish you an enjoyable roundtrip over the jazz organist and composer’s wide-ranging musical landscape. In the captain’s seat, Captain Barbara has the instruments under full control at all times, but her co-pilot, Peter Lehel (sax), may take over occasionally, while our navigator, Marcel Gustke (dr), charts a steady course and remains in close contact with ground control. |
With the 25th CD the artist is celebrating her thirty-fifth anniversary as jazz organist and composer. The intensive involvement of the organist with the entire recording process– she personally did all the editing and mixing in her own recording studio with the painstaking and meticulous care she is known for – resulted in a recording that is a special treasure in musical and technical sound aspects.
The interaction between the three musicians (sounding like a quartet with Barbara’s mastery of the foot-pedals) is inspired and confident …a musical dream-team. On her new CD the organist presents nine originals in a wide range of styles and takes the listener on a fascinating round-trip with her airline “Bebabaloo“. It is the ultimate concert experience in studio quality!
If you are impatient, then go to minute 26 – Wow!
St. Paul, Minn. — The organ is not unknown in the jazz world, but few jazz organists use their feet to play the bass line in addition to their hands on the keyboards. Barbara Dennerlein is one of a kind, in that she plays it all.
World-acclaimed German jazz organist Barbara Dennerlein began her career playing the classic Hammond B3 electronic.
Though she had always harbored a fascination and love for the pipe organ, as a youngster she was not allowed to touch one because she played jazz…
Check out the German postings page for a review of Barbara’s concert at London’s famous jazz club. Even if you can’t read German there are some great photos. This concert review has been published in English in All About Jazz, here’s the link.
Barbara’s video clips on YouTube have now been viewed more than one million times. To all the fans who helped to spread the word, thanks a million!
Here are two clips to celebrate hitting the one million mark.
BE SURE TO WATCH THE CLIP IN “HQ” High Quality
The clip “Purple” is the colorful wrapping paper.
PS If you have a slow internet connection, hit “play”, then hit “pause.” You will see the line beneath the video moving to the right. This means it is loading in your temporary memory. If you wait and let it load before hitting play again, you won’t have those annoying pauses during playback.
North American fans will also get a chance to catch Barbara live in 2009.
She’ll be appearing at the famous Green Mill Lounge:
Now in its 100th year, the Green Mill embodies the Golden Age, subsequent decay and present renaissance of the neighborhood that surrounds it, and serves a superb martini to boot. Long ago, one “Machinegun” McGurn ran the joint — the man behind the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre who was rumored to “coerce” the talent onto Green Mill’s stage. Today, you can sit in Al Capone’s booth (facing both the front and side doors), while listening to some world-class jazz until the wee hours for a cover charge less than an average order at Starbucks. You’ll enter the spotlight when you take a leak as the johns are located right next to the stage. “The Mill” also hosts the Uptown Poetry Slam every Sunday, where poets seek to avoid (literally) getting run off the stage. Esquire
Here are the dates announced so far:
02.08.2009 18.00 Kaslo/B.C. VOG 1MO, CANADA, Kaslo Jazzfest (Trio)
04.08.2009 20.00 Vancouver/B.C. V6B 2M6, CANADA, MusicFest Vancouver (Trio)
04.08.2009 20.00 Vancouver/B.C. V6B 2M6, CANADA, MusicFest Vancouver, Norman Rothstein Theatre (Trio)
21.08.2009 21.00 Chicago/IL 60640, USA, Green Mill Jazz Club (Trio) 22.08.2009
20.00 Chicago/IL 60640, USA, Green Mill Jazz Club (Trio) 25.08.2009 19.30
Portland/ME 04101, USA, Portland City Hall (Solo/church organ) 26.08.2009 19.00
Chicago/IL 60637, USA, Rockefeller Chapel, Universitiy of Chicago (Solo/church organ)
28.08.2009 19.00 Mahtomedi/MN 55115, USA, St. AndrewÕs Lutheran Church (Solo/church organ)
11.09.2009 19.00 Cleveland/OH 44118, USA, Fairmount Presbyterian Church (Solo/church organ)
12.09.2009 20.00 Cleveland/OH 44113, USA, The Cleveland Bop Stop (Trio)
13.09.2009 17.00 Akron/OH 44313, USA, Westminster Presbyterian Church (Solo & Trio/church organ)
After a year on tour, Barbara is home for Christmas and took time out for a chat.
In the spirit of Christmas Barbara’s father Hans shared the above photos with all of us. Of course the photo on the left is Barbara as an adolescent and the other is from Sep 2008 with Barbara sitting at Jimmy Smith’s favorite B3 (I’m guessing that Hans got it from Pete Fallico.)
This year I had the good fortune to see the recording studio that Hans set up for Barbara while she was still living at home, and he played several early tapes he recorded. With time he became a very skilled sound engineer and he has a wealth of high quality recordings of Barbara, going all the way back to the beginning. We fans can only hope that eventually Barbara will allow him to put together a CD Anthology box set – he even has some early club recordings. So keep your fingers crossed for that!
Because this has been such an eventful and busy year for Barbara, it seemed like it would be a good idea to ask her about some of the highlights. Normally I do print interviews, but I thought you fellow fans would enjoy hearing Barbara, so we decided to do a podcast interview. Please excuse the background noise on one of the telephones, if you have trouble understanding headphones will help. Also for any German speaking fans, I left a little bit of our post-interview conversation for you.
Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Or click right and download the MP3 file below.
2008 Year End Review Chat with Barbara Dennerlein
Finally, here is a WMA file you can down and or play with Windows Media Player
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Here at the Flickr Photo Pool for Barbara Dennerlein
Here you can review, listen to, and purchase these five CDs as MP3 files. Click on a color below.
