The Thilo Wolf Big Band
On the occasion of the publication of the Live-CD "SWING IT" - Vol. 2, Jazzpodium wrote about Thilo Wolf and his big Band: "A Wolf composition ("SWING IT") lets listeners anticipate what they are about to hear: A powerful and absolutely perfect brass section, a saxophone section playing equally as in one mould, not only during the primarily up tempo titles
one of the few Big Band CDs produced in Germany, which totally enraptures this reviewer and with which Thilo Wolf once more presents a top formation of our country."
Thilo Wolf formed his Big Band in 1992 on the occasion of the first recording of the concert series "SWING IT", a regular feature on Bavarian Television with the Thilo Wolf Big Band as host for international stars of film, radio and television. Currently the Thilo Wolf Big Band has the most TV time amongst German Big Bands, especially due to many Saturday evening Shows on ARD, (German Public Television) where Thilo Wolf is responsible for musical productions.
Thilo Wolf and his Big Band have thus far recorded more than 20 CDs, of which over 250 000 copies have been sold. This is a considerable success for a Big Band. It is shared by recording artists Randy Brecker, The New York Strings, Chuck Loeb, Etta Cameron, Bill Ramsey, Joan Faulkner and many others.
Thilo Wolf's concerts exude musical quality and joy of playing. Thus, the newspaper Aalener Nachrichten wrote after a concert at the "Oberkochener Jazzlights 2000" with the American Grammy award winner Diane Schuur and the Thilo Wolf Big Band: "Diane Schuur appeared to not only understand Thilo Wolf and his men extremely well in musical terms, but seemed to have lots of fun doing the concert with them".
Already in 1996, following the "Erdinger Jazztage", the newspaper Münchner Merkur named the Band European Top Class. After a TV recording at the 3SAT (Television) Festival in Mainz, the "FAZ" Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung wrote: "With his equally brilliant as well as enthusiastically intoning musicians, Thilo Wolf too builds on the resurging call for driving swing rhythm with its constant accelerating and slowing movements and its timely, often with, by slight delay, inserted brass arrangements and solo improvisations".
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