High Spirits - You Are Here - blue w/ white & red splatterHigh Roller Records, reissue 2023, blue w white & red splatter vinyl, ltd 150, lyric sheet 1. When the Lights Go Down 2. I Need Your Love 3. One Thousand Nights 4. Reminding You of Me 5. The Last Night 6. Can You Hear Me 7. Gone to Pieces 8. I Will Run 9. High Spirits

It's a feast of classic jazz

Sophisticated Lady

who had himself been a student of Brahms

And who better to conduct the Orchestre de l'Opéra National Bordeaux Aquitaine than the accomplished Rossinian Marc Minkowski

Influenced by everything from punk/rock to electronic music

by Japanese director Nagisa Oshima

these hymns were sung during Lutheran services

Jack Teagarden and Sidney Bechet play too as you hear I Got Rhythm

The monumental composition for orchestra and choir that would become Ein deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem) lies far from that intimate beginning

On this new journey

strove to bring his own musical visions to life

Benny Carter and others too numerous to mention