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artist · till broenner
release · blue eyed soul
year · 2002
genre · jazz+funk
label · universal jazz
catalogue · 016 879-2
website · www.jazzecho.de
date · 29-mar-2004
quality · 140kbps/44,1khz
source · compact disc
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01 intro 0:29
02 track one 3:02
03 diavolo 4:41
04 blue eyed soul 3:59
05 no fusion generation 5:06
06 42nd and 6th 5:23
07 tub of love 5:07
08 just the way you are 5:03
09 love somebody 6:04
10 trash 0:36
11 jazz musician 3:29
12 oscar said 4:55
13 reverand henry 0:51
14 dim the lights 6:53
15 banizm 1:32
playtime · 00h 57m 10s
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funky, sexy, relaxed, and mature. that's what till bronner's
"blue-eyed soul" sounds like. the 30-year-old, who spent already
half of his life as a musician, distilled nine months of studio
work into this album: "blue-eyed soul" is it's essence, the
reduction to the fundamental. a hard piece of work which
nonetheless sounds relaxed and impassioned. from the start to the
very end, this music is imbued by a passion you can feel in every
single note. the sounds are warm and the melodies so catchy that
you might feel tempted to sing them along. the tunes are suitable
for all occasions: you can listen to them in a lounge bar, on the
beach, or in your private bedroom; you can appreciate them before
breakfast as much as after a candlelight dinner; you can enjoy
them in the cosy company of your sweetheart or together with your
buddies. "blue-eyed soul" is the soundtrack for your inner
feelings.
till bronner took his time in making his eighth album. after all,
it was conceived to leave a lasting impression and not to serve
some fleeting musical zeitgeist. the trumpeter, producer,
composer, and singer is germany's most famous contemporary jazz
musician. and he is one of the best, that's for sure. however,
popularity did never mean that much to him. ever since his first
appearance as a soloist on the german jazz scene, he received rave
reviews for his performances and recordings. first he played hard
bop arrangements of popular german tunes (rather than american
jazz standards), then he made some real fusion (instead of
elevator music). more recently, he recorded a trumpet duet with
the sampled chet baker (released on the album "chattin' with chet"
/ verve 157 534?2) and wrote the soundtrack for the celebrated
documentary film "jazz seen" (verve 556 937-2). now the
30-year-old presents us with "blue-eyed soul", an album on which
he makes some surprising stylistic twists. "i make my music, and i
don't care how anybody labels it," he says. "the only thing that
counts for me is that the music i make does neither get on my own
nor on my listeners' nerves. what's the point in buying a record
which puts you under stress?"
joining up forces with japanese dj samon kawamura, a stylish
co-pro ducer,bronner strikes a happy medium between improvised
instrumental music and programmed soul and hiphop beats. "as soon
as we were noodling around too much, samon rolled his eyes,"
remembers the trumpeter. "and whenever he came up with some 'real
hiphop', i brought out my jazz chords." till knows that you don't
have to use much words to really say something. the right tone at
the right moment can say more than a thousand of triplets. bronner
plays trumpet, the instrument that is considered to be most
similar to the human voice. so he sings on his instrument. samon's
scratches, on the other hand, sound sometimes like background
vocals. even in billy joel's "just the way you are" bronner
'sings' the well-known melody on his horn. however, his rendition
does not imitate joel's original version, nor the one barry white
did - it's purely bronner. in one song, the elegantly flowing "tub
of love", till even sings without using his trumpet, though his
soft vocals blend extremely well with his soulful trumpet
phrasings. bronner, the trumpeter, accompanies bronner, the
singer. in "dim the lights", probably the most groovy track of
this set, us cult singer mark murphy's voice is being backed up by
bronner's horn. but in what a marvellous way.
there's a saying that the eyes are the mirror of the soul. and in
that respect "blue-eyed soul" is very revealing. you've got to
know the rules to break them, goes another saying. and the best
musicians establish, of course, their own rules. that's what you
call artistic freedom, or getting grown-up. till bronner already
played with legendary acoustic bassist ray brown and german
bandleader peter herbolzheimer, he performed with chaka khan and
dee dee bridgewater, and he produced albums for the outstanding
german film and tv stars hildegard knef and manfred krug. but till
has also listened a lot to the completely different music of soul,
rhythm'n'blues, and hiphop artists likes d'angelo, erykah badu,
and the roots. on "blue-eyed soul", he (finally!) wanted to
reflect these listening experiences in his own style. "we worked
until the music sounded like i heard it in my head for quite some
time," notes bronner. "it costed a lot of time and energy. but i
think the result speaks for itself." fifteen tracks, fifteen
different shades of the trumpeter's "blues-eyed soul". the music
is never blue-eyed, though, but always soulful.
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