Inviting | Jazzthing N... - Karoline Weidt Quartet - Audio CD (Arrives in 50 days)

The music of Karoline Weidt and her band sounds inviting indeed, which is why “Inviting” is also a fitting title for Karoline Weidt Quartet's debut album.

The songs on “Inviting” almost all come from the pen of the singer – not only the music, but also many lyrics. "I need peace and quiet for songwriting," Weidt said. “In the beginning I found it particularly difficult to compose lyrics, but now I love to play with words.” This interest has also led Weidt to become enthusiastic about the poems of Emily Dickinson and therefore set three of them to music. “I like how Emily Dickinson putts words together and creates a complete world,” the singer said, who now lives in Munich and has already won several prizes with her quartet: the New Generation #jazzlab at the Festival da Jazz in St. Moritz, the Junge Münchner Jazzpreis and the Blue Note Jazz Competition in Poznán, Poland.

The only cover version that made it onto the album is "Speak Low" by Kurt Weill; the interpretation has an interesting history. “Shortly before the lockdown, I taught myself to play vibraphone,” the singer stated. "Speak Low was just going around in my head back then and that's why I completely rearranged and reharmonized the song and then rewrote this arrangement for the band. We take up the message of the song, but the harmonies are quite different."

"Inviting" also has two prominent guests. The title song is refined by the Berlin vibraphonist Christopher Dell, and trumpeter Sebastian Studnitzky is guest on the restrained "Revery". “Sebastian Studnitzky plays so beautifully and so spherically that I really wanted to have him on 'Revery',” the singer stated enthusiastically.

Composers: Karoline Weidt, Kurt Weill.

Tracklist

1. Inviting (02:45)
2. At First (04:21)
3. Revery (04:11)
4. Speak Low (03:47)
5. The Novel Song (05:58)
6. I'm Nobody (03:01)
7. Wild Nights (02:49)
8. Hiatus (04:17)

Label: Double Moon Records | Origin: Holland

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