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Martin Schmitt: Handful of Blues

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Label: Edition Soundmaster Musikproduktion
Released: 1993
Time:
 65:30
Category: Boogie-Woogie
Producer(s): Martin Schmitt
Rating: ********.. (8/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.martinschmitt.de
Appears with: Joja Wendt
Purchase date: 2000.04.14
Price in €: 16,99



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[1] The cat (J.Smith) - 4:42
[2] Let's go get stoned (V.Simpson/N.Ashford/J.Amstead) - 4:44
[3] 324 Blues (M.Schmitt) - 4:45
[4] Experience (M.Schmitt) - 4:34
[5] All i wanna ever do (M.Schmitt) - 5:08
[6] Come rain or come shine (H.Arlen/J.Mercer) - 5:34
[7] Big legged mommas (T.Mahal) - 5:32
[8] Lonely hours (M.Schmitt) - 5:37
[9] Keep your hands off her (H.Leadbetter) - 4:18
[10] Doodlin' (H.SIlver) - 4:45
[11] Too fat to boogie (M.Schmitt/M.Donegan) - 5:11
[12] She's not the one for me (M.Schmitt) - 4:35
[13] Ain't nobody's business (Grainger / Robbins/Prince /Williams) - 5:36

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MARTIN SCHMITT - Piano, Vocal

TITUS VOLLMER - Guitar on [9] and [13]
BODO MÄTZKEIT - Rub-board on [7]

PETER SCHMIDBAUER - Recording, Mixing
ORTWIN SCHNEIDER - Cover Photo
CLAUDIA KRÄNZLE - Liner photo
TOMMY WEISS - -Layout
FRANZ DE BYL - Liner Notes
MORITZ WESSEL - Translation

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CD 1993 ESM Recordings ESM9303

Recorded live at Bürgerhaus Gräfelfing, 28/29 July 1993.

Liner Notes:

While time stood still Martin Schmitt was born - a single man, a solist. He started off in Germany, even his parents are german, he has got a german name and he talks german - a single man, a german solist then? In my entire life I've only known very, very few people who - after being born - haven't just simply been there, but alive in the world, alive in the whole world. There he is - and time is fleeting. Suddenly things are only there to be seen, heard, felt... - or simply : to be understood. In Germany there are no Sitars, Djembes or Panderos, but in the surrounding of Martin's there are enough interesting things to be determed, espacially this big, black piece of furniture with all its strings that only opens itself up to you if you open it. Musicians call this incredible instrument "piano" - which surely is a tremendous mistake since the good old thing is not as quiet as its name may lead one to assume. Finally he decides to breath his new life into all that he found enriched with the love and the life of an endless number of different people he himself has never known - he plays the piano... and for his true love for all those and all the other unknown he sings - I love his own tunes best (even though we know each other). I appreciate more being told about life from a younger than from a older person, for, like Martin, I do prefere to believe in a positive future. Once you'ver heard this music you'll realize you're absolutely right there, too.

Franz de Byl, translated by Moritz Wessel



"He represents a very important part of jazz" wrote the Süddeutsche Zeitung. In an ingenious way Martin Schmitt combines his ideas with musical forms already existing in the standards of Boogie and Blues.  Instead of copying them, he reinterprets the old masters of the blues. "Five Feet & the Blues" is Martin Schmitt’s second album. Here he consequently continues what he started with his debut release "Handful of Blues".  His trade mark is his spontaneity and his excellent ways and means to combine various styles. And once more, he enchants and inspires his audience and makes sure that everybody feels that true blues comes from deep down inside.  This is what makes him so special among the young jazz artists. In his own compositions he lets us experience interesting modulations far beyond the "normal" "Blues Scales".  His dark and smoky voice full of intensity enchants us all.

from www.blackbird-music.com



Schon auf seiner ersten CD zeigt Martin Schmitt sein vielseitiges Spiel auf dem Piano. Klassiker wie 'Come Rain Or Come Shine' interpretiert er ebenso gefühlvoll wie die Eigenkomposition 'Experience', deren Titel wie ein Synonym für das gesamte Werk ist. 'Too Fat To Boogie', auch selbstgeschrieben, hat durchaus jenen Schwung, den man dieser Musik zuschreibt und widerlegt den Titel schon in den ersten Takten.

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