Round Midnight
Reiner Witzel / Richie Beirach
Tracklist
- You don’t know what love is (G. de Paul)
- Requiem for Chris (R. Beirach)
- Blues for Belfast (R. Witzel)
- Round Midnight (T. Monk)
- Footprints (W. Shorter)
- Peace Piece (B. Evans)
produced by
Reiner Witzel & Richie Beirach
Executive producer
Philipp van Endert & André Nendza
Musicians
Reiner Witzel (Germany): Soprano-, Alto- & Tenor-Saxophone, Flute
Richie Beirach (USA): Piano
About the album
Richie Beirach, born in 1947 a true legend and one of the most influential pianists in jazz history (and sideman of Stan Getz, Wayne Shorter and Freddie Hubbard among many others ) and German saxophonist Reiner Witzel have been linked by an intense musical collaboration and friendship for many years. After two releases in quartet – and quintet formats this is their first release as a duo. It was recorded live in concert, the athmospere is breath-taking . Richie says : „This duo recording of Reiner and myself is an example of the kind of creative musical magic that can happen with a live recording: Reiner’s soulful powerful playing inspired me to play things I never played before, we were playing as if we had one mind but two spirits, the music that we created is very intense and also extremely warm and expressive, an interesting balance between fire, energy and meditative calm.“
