2004
Big Band Poesie
1. We take pride in being able to play the shit out
2. Everything has its own time
3. Music is music, that’s it
4. The music is like a journey
5. Writing for Big bands is like going home
6. Insecurity is the secret of eternal youth
7. Music is a very personal thing, strictly individual
8. If the Blues was Whiskey, I would stay drunk all the time
9. We get our kicks from playing
10. There is nothing to me it’s just the band
11. I sincerely believe in Jazz
12. I helped to kill the dance business
all compositions & arrangements by mathias rüegg,
except #12, composed & arranged by Martin Koller.
Lyrics #6 by Anna Lauvergnac
The titels are quotations from: Don Ellis (1), Quincy Jones (2),
Duke Ellington (3), Sun Ra (4), Vince Mendoza (5),
Gil Evans (6), Thad Jones (7), Lionel Hampton (8), Count Basie (9),
Harry James (10), Artie Shaw (11) & Stan Kenton (12).
produced for Emarcy/Universal by mathias rüegg.
executive producer: Harry Gruber/Universal.
recorded at Porgy & Bess Vienna, August 2004 by Jürg Peterhans.
recording assistance by Heinrich v. Kalnein, Bernd Unterweger,
Martin Vetters, Ronald Matky & Eva Salfellner.
mixed by Jürg Peterhans, Heinrich von Kalnein & mathias rüegg at Studio Hafner, Ebreichsdorf.
mastered at Studio Powerplay (Maur/Zürich) by Jürg Peterhans.
Thanks to Klaus Schulz for his collection of quotes.
Insecurity is the secret of eternal youth
lyrics by Anna Lauvergnac:
Sometimes I wonder where I’m going
I wonder if I’ll ever know
if the half of what I’m doing
makes some sense
or no sense at all...
I’m not really sure.
