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High Quality video of Barbara & Rhoda Scott in France
August 20, 2009
If you are impatient, then go to minute 26 – Wow!
Nice Radio Profile on National Public Radio (USA)
August 16, 2009
Barbara Dennerlein pulls out all stops for jazz
August 12, 2009
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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…
Ronnie Scott’s Concert Review
June 25, 2009Check 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 passes one million views on YouTube
May 3, 2009Barbara’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.
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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.
Barbara Dennerlein’s 2009 North American Tour
March 3, 2009North 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)
Podcast – 2008 Year in Review Chat with Barbara Dennerlein
December 18, 2008
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
Barbara at the Monterey Jazz Festival
September 23, 2008The Jazz Observer included Barbara in thier list of the top 5 acts at this year’s festival:
Having thus established her total mastery of organ-jazz conventions, Dennerlein then proceeds to shatter the mold. Without ever sacrificing the almighty groove, she calmly guides her trio into dense thickets, modernist harmonies and odd meters. Dennerlein possesses awesome technique and a prodigious feel for the dynamic range of her instrument, varying the feel throughout each tune from a whisper to a scream. read the entire review here
Barbara also shared this with us the morning after the festival:
It was a huge success. There were standing ovations in the middle of the set and a totally full house. People were standing wherever they found space. So everyone over here is totally happy about this huge success. I’m looking forward to Yoshis tonight!
Chico Freeman & Barbara
August 11, 2008Chico Freeman & Barbara Dennerlein played to 5,000 people at the 14th international Jazz at The Old Town Square Festival on August 9th, 2008 in Warsaw, Poland.
Photo by Nikita Asimov
photo by Nikita Asimov
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