Sam Burckhardt
Sam Burckhardt
Nominated for the 2016 Swiss Jazz Award, the Chicago-based tenor saxman Sam Burkhardt, originally from Basel, brings back the magic of R&B, swing, and of the big bands of former days.
In his album "Fly Over", tenor saxophonist Sam Burckhardt travels ‒ or rather flies ‒ back to the age of rhythm and blues, swing and the Count Basie and Duke Ellington big bands. He co-wrote three compositions with guitarist Joel Paterson, one of them the swinging title song "Fly Over" (probably an allusion to Illinois Jacquet's "Fly Home"), a truly inspired piece somewhere between jazz and 1940s R&B. "Bird Watching" and "Early Bird Blues" also show the extent to which rhythm and blues and traditional jazz are part of Sam's identity. A native of Basel, Sam has lived in Chicago for over 30 years, performing with such great bluesmen as Sunnyland Slim ‒ so to him the sound of those years isn't nostalgia, it's more like a second skin. Burckhardt's quintet ‒ with keyboard player Pete Benson, bass player Beau Sample, drummer Alex Hall and guitarist Joel Paterson ‒ teases out the incomparable beauty of the standards they play with respect, even understatement.
From: CH
Style: Swing, Mainstream Jazz
Dates: 26.6 – 30.6 2016
SWISS JAZZ AWARD 2016 FINALIST
Sam Burckhardt, tenor sax and vocals
Joel Paterson, guitar
Luca Leombruni, bass
Andreas Schmid, drums
Sam Burckhardt
Sam Burckhardt
Nominated for the 2016 Swiss Jazz Award, the Chicago-based tenor saxman Sam Burkhardt, originally from Basel, brings back the magic of R&B, swing, and of the big bands of former days.
In his album "Fly Over", tenor saxophonist Sam Burckhardt travels ‒ or rather flies ‒ back to the age of rhythm and blues, swing and the Count Basie and Duke Ellington big bands. He co-wrote three compositions with guitarist Joel Paterson, one of them the swinging title song "Fly Over" (probably an allusion to Illinois Jacquet's "Fly Home"), a truly inspired piece somewhere between jazz and 1940s R&B. "Bird Watching" and "Early Bird Blues" also show the extent to which rhythm and blues and traditional jazz are part of Sam's identity. A native of Basel, Sam has lived in Chicago for over 30 years, performing with such great bluesmen as Sunnyland Slim ‒ so to him the sound of those years isn't nostalgia, it's more like a second skin. Burckhardt's quintet ‒ with keyboard player Pete Benson, bass player Beau Sample, drummer Alex Hall and guitarist Joel Paterson ‒ teases out the incomparable beauty of the standards they play with respect, even understatement.
From: CH
Style: Swing, Mainstream Jazz
Dates: 26.6 – 30.6 2016
SWISS JAZZ AWARD 2016 FINALIST
Sam Burckhardt, tenor sax and vocals
Joel Paterson, guitar
Luca Leombruni, bass
Andreas Schmid, drums