MontagsTipp: Bournemouth 1995 and 1619 Broadway 2012
Hörprobe: On Broadway
Kurt Elling - voice
John McLean - guitar
Laurence Hobgood - piano
Clark Sommers - bass
Kendrick Scott - drums, congas
Christian McBride - voice (7)
Ernie Watts - tenor saxophone (5, 8)
Joel Frahm - tenor saxophone (4, 7)
Tom Luer - alto saxophone (11), tenor saxophone (2, 4, 11)
Kye Palmer - trumpet (11), flugelhorn (2, 4, 11)
Kurt Elling | 1619 Broadway: The Brill Building Project
A honeycomb of offices and claustrophobic studios at 1619 Broadway, in the heart of midtown Manhattan, the fabled Brill Building at its peak served as the creative home for more than 160 tenants associated with the pop-music industry. Of these, the vast majority were composers and lyricists. From the mid-1930s through the early 1970's the architects of the "Brill Building Sound" churned out a preponderance of the popular songs that three generations of America grew up hearing and singing.
The term "Brill Building Sound" describes the string of rock-and-roll masterpieces that defined the genre and signaled its first maturing. These instantly recognizable songs came from such songwriting teams as Lieber and Stoller ("Stand By Me"), Goffen and King ("Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?"), Mann and Weil ("You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling"), and Bacharach and David ("Walk On By"). Such teams crafted hit after hit while working in a physical environment with paper-thin walls that allowed the writing teams to hear and learn (or steal) from each other. It became a fertile and competitive hothouse of cross-influence and collaboration. Kurt Elling
gebattmer - 2012/12/10 18:15
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