WOLFGANG HAFFNER – Dream Band Live in Concert – 2LP – Vinyl

2LP – Black Vinyl

Stars, drive, and heart: Brecker, Landgren, Evans and more the Dream Band of drummer Wolfgang Haffner on a live double album. One can hear it within the first few seconds: this music project has been done for the sheer love of it. Bandleader Wolfgang Haffner gets the programme under way on the drums by building intensity step by step. He plays with attitude and propulsive power, and never a trace of just showing off.

This was how Haffner (b.1965) began the autumn 2021 concerts by his Dream Band, so it is also what we hear at the start of this double album of recordings from the tour. Known as the go-to rhythm anchor for all kinds of jazz, funk and pop units since the 1980s, he chose to indulge himself in some luxury casting, gathered together my favourite musicians, and did a tour with shows in thirteen German towns and cities.

Tracklist:

1. Drums Ahead (Live) (1:29)
2. Soulbop (Live) (6:43)
3. New Life (Live) (7:17)
4. Walk Tall (Live) (5:26)
5. Bones from the Ground (Live) (5:26)
6. Dando Vueltas (Live) (8:15)
7. Tubes (Live) (2:41)
8. Star (Live) (7:01)
9. Sweet Emma (Live) (6:06)
10. The Dipshit (Live) (4:07)
11. You Dig (Live) (5:01)
12. Get Here (Live) (5:33)
13. Tres Hermanos (Live) (5:52)
14. Q (Live) (4:33)
15. Leo (Live) (6:53)
16. Keep Going (Live) (4:26)
17. Simple Life (Live) (4:22)
18. The Real Thing (Live) (2:43)
19. Jean Pierre (Live) (3:42)
20. Silent Way (Live) (3:32)

line up:
Wolfgang Haffner / drums, table tubes & log drum
Randy Brecker / trumpet
Nils Landgren / trombone & vocals (Get Here)
Bill Evans / saxohone, vocals & piano (Bones from the Ground)
Christopher Dell / vibraphone
Simon Oslender / keyboards & piano
Thomas Stieger / bass