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Henning Sieverts Symmetry

Title: Blackbird - with Chris Speed

Label: Pirouet Records

Cat No:PIT3040
Format:CD

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• Born in 1966 in Berlin, musician and journalist Henning Sieverts has been playing cello since he was five. Sieverts has been moderating jazz programs as a freelancer for Bavarian Radio since 2003. Composing has always held a special significance for Henning Sieverts; he has hundreds of jazz (and classical) compositions to his credit and has received numerous awards and honours for his endeavours.

• Sieverts has played with many of the major figures in jazz, including Benny Bailey, Jim Black, Marc Copland, Marc Ducret, Paulo Fresu, Slide Hampton, Bireli Lagrene, Michael Moore, and Phil Woods. Henning Sieverts can be heard playing bass and/or cello on over 75 CD productions, including 10 under his own name. "Blackbird" is Sieverts' second album for Pirouet Records, and this sextet features Chris Speed, on tenor sax and clarinet.

• "Blackbird ... demonstrates that smartly conceived compositions can have a captivating atmosphere and be a lot of fun at the same time ... Henning Sieverts draws on the immense possibilities of the systematic and masterfully exploits these possibilities." (Arnaldo Desouteiro, Jazzstation.com)

Track Listing for Blackbird - with Chris Speed
1. Wingswing
2. Dribs and Drabs
3. Ubaramarabu
4. Penguin Promenade
5. Rebird
6. Twittering Machine
7. Blackbird/Wenn Ich Ein Voglein War
8. Low Owl
9. Gale In Night, Nightingale
10. E bird
11. Half-Brain Dream
12. Blues for Alice
13. O.M’s Birdsday

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Henning Sieverts Symmetry

Blackbird - with Chris Speed