Jazz on organ? HOT (Het Orgel Trio) proves it can be done! Together with the impassioned clarinet player Steven Kamperman and the versatile Dion Nijland on bass, Berry van Berkum makes the pipe organ thunder, groan and vibrate with HOT air. The trio takes the audience along on a journey throughout the church. Charlie ?Bird? Parker was arguably the biggest genius of 20th century jazz. His harmonic ideas also proved such a coherent and closed building that the next generation preferred to stay out of it entirely. In 2015, some sixty years after his death, HOT decided to look how much space they could still find in Bird?s music. And where better to do that than in the miraculous acoustics of the spacious 12th century Nicola? church in Utrecht, with six beautiful seconds of reverb. And of course on the instrument that has the strongest link to the building: the pipe organ, with its endless sound possibilities.
Tracks:
01 Stars & Eyes? Steven Kamperman, Charlie Parker, Gene de Paul, Don Raye
02 Yardbird Suite? Charlie Parker, arr. Steven Kamperman
03 Red Cross? Charlie Parker
04 Billy?s Billie?s Bounce? Dion Nijland, Charlie Parker
05 GoKoKo? Steven Kamperman, inspired by one phrase of Parker?s solo on KoKo
06 Scrapple from the Big Apple? Charlie Parker, arr. Steven Kamperman
07 Bird & Beast? Steven Kamperman, inspired by Parker?s solo on Kim by C. Parker
08 My little suede Shoes? Charlie Parker, arr. Steven Kamperman
09 Escape from Barbados? Steven Kamperman, Charlie Parker
10 Marmaduke? Charlie Parker
11 Otinro? Berry van Berkum
