Bop-Explosion live

[Gheorghe]

Dear friends.

I think there are some who know a bit about my musical activities, for those who don´t know: I am an Austrian jazz pianist and composer and currently lead a band of some of the best players on the scene here. 

We had our debut album last year and meanwhile I continue composing new stuff for our next album, we go to the record studio in 2 months and the new CD/Vinyl will be out early next year.

Here I wanna bring you a youtube video of one of our latest concerts. 

We played a mix of standards, some stuff from the first album and .....what the audience, my fellow musicians and me liked most of all, some taste about what will be on the upcoming record: 

Please listen: 

Track list: 

First tune: Sweet Love of Mine (Woody Shaw)

at 9.44: Bebop Airlines (original from 1st album)

at 18.31: My Ideal: THIS has symbolic caracter for me since the nice lyrics became truth for me 2 days after that gig. I met that stunning  wonderful girl "Miss RA", she has the name of the Egyptian God of the Sun, and of course Sun RA, and what can I wish more. Since then, that ballad is kinda torch song for just us two.........

at 26.27: I like New York (how about you?)
at 33.25 "Simmering" (THIS will be the title track of our new album) Listen to this, it´s really the stuff I´m focussed on now !!!!!!

At 39.18 "Sir Uli" (THIS will be on our upcoming album:  my dedication to our bass player. It´s a bass feature, based on the chords of "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams". That´s a more old fashioned tune, but nice.....

At 45:00 "Tune for Pharoah"...(THIS will also be on the upcoming album: My whole credo is in that composition, what I feel, what I think, and being very aware of the Master who made me think and feel that way: Pharoah Sanders, my idol ! 

at 54:00 "Evidence": Everybody has a lotta fun with this, we really romp on it I think......

at 100: Actually the encore: My trumpet player called it, it´s also from the first album from last year

the second encore is just a slow "Blue Monk", also called by my trumpet player......

 

ENJOY IT !