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Re-Release
Let's Go Bowling
Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra
Release Date: 16. December 2011
Polydor # 278 648-2
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This CD release is sure to get the hearts of all Bert Kaempfert fans and collectors beating faster. First brought out on vinyl by Polydor in 1964, this album is a coupling featuring Kaempfert’s early recordings made between 1959 and 1964, four tracks of which have never before appeared on CD in Germany.
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LADI GEISLER
November 27, 1927 – November 19, 2011
Ladi Geisler performed alongside international stars and brought his considerable skills to bear as a studio musician at productions beyond number. He made his career as a soloist, was the recipient of many an award and gave of his time to several institutions. And, above all, it was his unforgettable “Knack-Bass”, that percussive bass sound, which played such a significant role in characterizing the Bert Kaempfert sound.
Until his passing, Ladi enjoyed life both offstage as well as onstage with his guitar – making music was, without a doubt, his very lifeblood!
In 2006 he celebrated his seventy-ninth birthday before a packed audience in Berlin’s Friedrichstadtpalast: “Other people of my age”, he said, “live out their days at a health spa; I prefer going on tour!” With his typical Knackbass and outstanding guitar solos, Ladi enriched the “Strangers In The Night – The Music Of Bert Kaempfert” concert tours of 2006 and 2008, with audiences applauding him as the man of the evening.
And yet, despite his busy schedule, he was always there for us when we needed him, generously offering help and advice.
Ladi, “Danke Schoen”!
Now
and Forever –
Secara meets Kaempfert
Release date: June 24, 2011
Order no: 1036001SSR
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As a connoisseur of Bert Kaempfert’s musical world, Marc Secara has chosen not to sing any of the maestro’s hits. Instead, this CD features songs from Kaempfert’s repertoire that are less well-known or to date have been heard "only" as instrumental versions.
The music has been so arranged as to lend it a rich and luxurious quality. Accompanied by a large band Secara swings and croons his way through twelve Kaempfert’s songs, songs that will rapidly become new evergreens.
The big band is made up of some of the best jazz musicians Europe has to offer – such as Ack van Rooyen, Lutz Büchner, Fiete Felsch, Ludwig Nuss, Frank Chastenier, Christian von Kaphengst and Lutz Häfner – and backed up by the Babelsberg film orchestra.
This album was produced by Robert Matt, with the arrangements written by Jörg Achim Keller, Wolf Kerschek and Michael Gibbs.
"Now And Forever" is the first production on Silver Spot Records, a brand-new label established by Bert Kaempfert’s youngest daughter Doris, a label that will be issuing exclusive productions of music ranging from jazz to pop.
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Re-Releases
Bert
Kaempfert & His Orchestra
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Free and Easy (1970)
CD # 276 125-2
The Kaempfert Touch (1970)
CD # 276 420-3
Orange Colored Sky (1971)
CD # 276 229-8
6 Plus 6 (1972)
CD # 276 126-1
Yesterday and Today (1973)
CD # 276 416-7
The Most Beautiful Girl (1974)
CD # 276 187-0
Forever my Love (1975)
CD # 276 288-3
Safari Swings Again (1977)
CD # 276 443-2
Tropical Sunrise (1977)
CD # 276 513-7
Swing (1978)
CD # 276 491-9
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Now
and Forever –
Secara meets Kaempfert
Two Gentlemen of Music
October 15, 2010
Theater Kehrwieder
Speicherstadt Hamburg
Kehrwieder 6
D-20457 Hamburg
Friday, 15 October, sees Marc Secara together with orchestra and guest star Pe Werner celebrating the opening night of his stage show. In honour of Bert Kaempfert. In the city where on 16 October the composer was born, and in remembrance of his death thirty years ago. Not only has Kaempfert’s music survived the intervening decades but, thirty years after his passing, he is still providing new hits! Marc Secara presents well-known compositions from Kaempfert’s songbook as well as “hidden treasures in new guise”.
Discover and enjoy the music of a masterly production that started out from a dream...
For more information: www.now-and-forever.info
Tickets: www.eventim.de
Bert
Kaempfert
Vinyl-Single-Selection
(1958-1969)
Polydor # 272 819-9
Release Date: Sept. 17, 2010
Contained in this Box of high quality finish are Bert Kaempfert and his Orchestra’s most successful 20 singles released on the Polydor label between 1958 and 1969.
Mitternachts-Blues, Ducky, Patricia or Catalania being earworms in those days and Afrikaan Beat, Danke Schoen, Blue Midnight, L.O.V.E., Moon Over Naples (Spanisch Eyes), Strangers In The Night or Wonderland By Night stormed the international charts as singles.
For vinyl collectors and lovers of this orchestral music a long-held wish has now doubtless come true!
