Frankfurt Radio Big Band - Kriegel Today!

For some time now there has been a strong initiative to keep the oeuvre of guitarist, author and illustrator Volker Kriegel (1943 - 2003) alive. Together with the company MIG Music, six albums with extensive material/bonus material from the private archive of Volker Kriegel have been published/re-released so far. Even previously unknown material - carefully restored and remastered � was thus made available to interested listeners, with the support of Ev Kriegel (wife of Volker Kriegel). In 2018 we were very pleased to find out that the Frankfurt Radio Big Band was going to celebrate Kriegel's work with two homage evenings in the hr-Sendesaal in Frankfurt. These two wonderful concerts were given on November 22 and 23. Ev Kriegel suggested a release on CD and an agreement was soon reached with the management of the band to combine the best of the two evenings on one album. A bridge from Kriegel's original recordings to the present was successfully constructed. The previous recordings are now perfectly complemented by today's brilliant live interpretation by Jim McNeely and his much larger line-up. And so the importance of Kriegel as an essential pioneer of Jazz-Rock was demonstrated in a very impressive way.