A NYC Tribute feat. Jimmy Cobb & Randy Brecker Monkey House

• 1Teo10:25
• 2Evidence06:19
• 3Green Chimneys09:36
• 4Scooter07:18
• 5Little Rootie Tootie07:14
• 6Ask Me Now09:49
• 7Balue Bolivar Blues07:36
• 8Criss Cross10:31
• Total Runtime01:08:48

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Not every 'grey' is also an Eminence - but this person here definitely is: August-Wilhelm Scheer, baritone saxophonist and a passionate jazz musician, and for many years through the „August-Wilhelm-Scheer-Foundation for Science and Art“ a sponsor of the jazz scene. He says, the jazz makes him „spiritually free - like a bird in the air“. If somebody like him who has earned his money as an enterpriser and university professor and impresses in more than one area, gets together with a legend of the jazz - or we better say, with another legend – something amazing can be expected. Especially, if the second legend is none less than Jimmy Cobb. Together one devotes himself to the work of a third, also a legend of jazz Thelonious Monk, to whom Scheer would like to raise a monument and give respect on „A NYC tributes “ (JAZZ'nA'RTS). He had experienced him personally: „Monk“, remembers Scheer, „was a strange and bizarre personality. I saw him beginning of the 60ies as a student live in Hamburg. Monk played, got up from the grand piano and bounced around like a bear. Then he turned around quickly as a flash in order to get back to his piano for continuing playing. This is my very personal remembrance of him!“ Moreover, Monk is for him, beside Duke Ellington, the most important jazz composer. „Pieces like ‚Round Midnight‘ will always have continuance existence“, thinks Scheer. In this he is united with John Coltrane who, as Martin Kunzler quotes in the rororo-jazz encyclopaedia, called Monk „a musical architect of the highest rank“.

At first sight, the partnership between Scheer and Cobb may seem unlikely - here the successful man from the economy, there the world-renowned jazz star who sat with Miles Davis 'Kind of Blue' at the drums and since then incessantly remained active. However, “Monk - A NYC tributes“ is not their first encounter - already in 2006 you could hear them both combined on the 'BEBOP, Process Excellence, Volume two' album. Scheer highly estimates Cobb - for what he is, and for his life work. Scheer is outraged that „by the way, Cobb was paid for his participating in ‚child of Blue', the probably most famous jazz album of all times, 30 dollars!“. „Cobbs career push came with Cannonball Adderly“, knows how to report Ralf Dombrowski in Reclams jazz encyclopaedia, „who engaged him in 1957 in his combo and after an intermezzo with Stan Getz and Dizzy Gillespie, mediated him in the quintet of Miles Davis.“

Randy Brecker, trumpet & flugelhorn
Gunnar Mossblad, tenor saxophone
August-Wilhelm Scheer, baritone saxophone
Jim Ridl, piano
Tony Marino, bass
Jimmy Cobb, drums

Monkey House (Don Breithaupt)
is perhaps best known for composing the music for the animated series 6teen with Anthony Vanderburgh. In 2009, the duo won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Song for their theme to this series. Since 2007, they've won three SOCAN Awards, two for Domestic Animated Television Series music and one for International Television Series music. They're currently working on the animated series Sidekick, which airs on YTV. Breithaupt has also composed original themes and/or scores for HGTV’s Home to Keep, Fresh TV’s Really Me!, CBC’s Disability Network and TVO’s Benjamin’s Farm.

Breithaupt also composes songs with his brother Jeff, which are featured in their revue, The Breithaupt Brothers Songbook, which has regular performances in New York. He's the current keyboard player for the Kim Mitchell Band, and he tours with Rik Emmett and Sass Jordan. In addition, Breithaupt leads his own group Monkey House, who have released two well-received albums with strong airplay, and have just finished recording a new one, Headquarters, to be released in early 2012. The band makes melodic pop with a sophisticated, jazzy twist, clearly influenced by Steely Dan.

In fact Breithaupt is the author of Steely Dan’s Aja, Vol. 46 of Continuum Publishing’s 33-1/3 series of books about albums. His previous books include Precious and Few: Pop Music in the Early '70s and Night Moves: Pop Music in the Late '70s. He received his musical education at Berklee College of Music in Boston, and his literary education at Queen's University in Kingston. He has written extensively on music and film, most often for The National Post.

As a songwriter, Breithaupt has had his work covered by such artists as Alfie Zappacosta, Marc Jordan, Dione Taylor, Sarah Slean, Denzal Sinclaire, Patricia O'Callaghan, and Chris Smith, and he's currently co-writing new material with Rik Emmett, Kim Mitchell and Wendy Lands.

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