Strangers in the Night - The Music of Bert Kaempfert

Strangers in the Night - The Music of Bert Kaempfert is the Berlin Jazz Orchestra's first home video, released on DVD September 21, 2012 by Polydor/Universal Entertainment.[1] The DVD is a live recording from the Alte Oper on February 12, 2008 in Frankfurt, Germany.

Strangers in the Night - The Music of Bert Kaempfert
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ReleasedSeptember 12, 2012
Recordedrecorded live February 12, 2008 at Alte Oper in Frankfurt, Germany
GenreJazz, Pop Music
Length65 Minutes
LabelPolydor/Universal
Berlin Jazz Orchestra chronology
You're Everything
(2008)
Strangers in the Night - The Music of Bert Kaempfert
(2012)
Songs of Berlin
(2021)

History

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Strangers in the Night - The Music of Bert Kaempfert is the Berlin Jazz Orchestra's first home video, released on DVD September 21, 2012. This was produced using a big band, strings and choir, playing the music of Kaempfert's and conducted by former alumni, trombonist Jiggs Whigham. The DVD documents and is an edited production of one of four concerts the Berlin Jazz Orchestra performed in early 2008. The particular concert documented/presented on the DVD is a live recording and video from Frankfurt, Germany at the Alte Oper on February 12, 2008.[2]

On DVD the recording includes Kaempfert’s well known songs such as Spanish Eyes, Wonderland By Night, You Turned My World Around and Strangers In The Night. Soloists included Ack van Rooyen (flugelhorn, trumpet), Herb Geller (saxophone, flute), Jiggs Whigham (trombone) and Ladi Geisler (bass) together with several of Bert Kaempfert’s past musicians from his orchestras. This concert and DVD includes jazz singers Sylvia Vrethammar, Marc Secara as well as pianist and entertainer Joja Wendt.

Promotion

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The live recording for Polydor Records originated from the concert of February 12, 2008 at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, Germany. The concert/DVD was toured in four different German cities to Include Berlin, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf and Hamburg.[3] Follow up to this CD is Now and Forever - Secara meets Kaempfert released by Silver Spot Records in 2011.

Reception/Professional ratings

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Jazzthetic
 
Highly favorable[4]

A whirring sound carpet is laid down by the Berlin Jazz Orchestra (sic)...
made impressive for provoking a renewable generation of Jazz.

Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten

The young singer Marc Secara would actually stand where Roger Cicero is today, because he has it (to make it short).

Jazzthetic

Track listing

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Disc 1
No.TitleLength
1."Intro: Strangers In The Night"00:43
2."Wonderland By Night"03:04
3."Medley: Afrikaan Beat / A Swingin' Safari / Red Roses For A Blue Lady / Three O'Clock In The Morning"05:52
4."For Bert"04:40
5."The Sunny Side Of Life"04:10
6."The World We Knew"03:07
7."Spanish Eyes (Moon Over Naples)"05:08
8."L.O.V.E"04:03
9."It Makes No Difference"03:32
10."Lonely Is The Name"04:37
11."Bye Bye Blues"03:08
12."I Love You So"02:50
13."A Song For Satch"02:40
14."Strangers In The Night"04:22
15."You Turned My World Around"02:51
16."(You Are) My Way Of Life"03:00
17."The Times Will Change"02:54
18."Danke Schoen"04:50

Personnel

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Release history

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Region Date Label Format
Europe September 21, 2012 Universal Polydor DVD
Canada

References

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  • Sound carrier of Strangers in the Night - The Music of Bert Kaempfert in the German National Library catalogue
  • Berlin Jazz Orchestra – Strangers In The Night - The Music Of Bert Kaempfert at Discogs
  • OCLC 865108122
  • Berlin Jazz Orchestra – Marc Secara - The Music Of Bert Kaempfert on YouTube