# CD review: Barbara Dennerlein – Best Of Blues: Through The Years 2019: Video, CD cover

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2019/03/12/cd-review-barbara-dennerlein-best-of-blues-through-the-years-2019-video-cd-cover/
- Published: 2019-03-12T15:47:22+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**As the title of the new CD “Best Of Blues: Through The Years” by Barbara Dennerlein
already reveals, it is all about “Blues” in the widest sense. Thus, the CD assembles
a fine selection of blues titles, which Barbara has composed during her career and
recorded solo as well as accompanied with different instrumentations. **

This new CD, therefore, is Barbara’s answer to her concert audience’s frequently
expressed desire, to dedicate an entire album specifically to her “Blüser”.

“Blues,” says Barbara, “is incredibly diverse and can be played in so many different
ways. Ever since I first sat down at the organ, the Blues has been, and to this 
day remains, my companion. No matter what I play, the Blues feeling is perceptible
in every moment in my music. The Blues is a source of inspiration and expression
of my deepest feelings.”

In listening to Barbara perform, it is obvious that she has the blues in her blood.
She masterfully coaxes Blue Notes from her beloved Hammond-B3, whether in wonderfully
sensitive slow blues or in uptempo bebop blues. Her intense blues feeling and her
versatility come to the fore in this compilation, where she celebrates the most 
different kinds of blues. Barbara, embraces blues styles, from traditional down-
to-earth blues, boogie, swing, bebop and funky blues, to the experimental processing
of the blues, as in the intro of “Frog Dance”, where she conjures fascinating, ethereal
sounds as she plays with the drawbars of her Hammond organ.

And then there’s Barbara’s virtuoso pedal technique, a technique so impressive that
all recordings on this CD, many having complex bass passages, feature only Barbara’s
pedal bass. She creates a kind of rhythmic triptych, playing melody, accompaniment
and bass, completely independently to create her own groove. Under Barbara’s magic
fingers, the legendary Hammond B3 comes alive.

This CD contains nine recordings from the period 1985 to 2014 in different instrumentations
from solo to quintet. The album contains both studio and live recordings.

 1.  Organ Boogie (Live) ( 6:44)
 2.  Stormy Weather Blues (Live) ( 9:28)
 3.  Tribute To Charlie (Live) ( 7:14)
 4.  Rankett Blues (Live) ( 9:02)
 5.  Frog Dance (Live) (10:05)
 6.  Bebabaloo (Live) ( 7:30)
 7.  Black And White (Live) ( 5:09)
 8.  Funkish ( 4:10)
 9.  This Old Fairy-Tale ( 4:11)

**Barbara Dennerlein – Hammond B3 organ, footpedals**
 **Hermann Breuer – trombone****
Marcel Gustke – drums** **Peter Lehel – saxophones** **Daniel Messina – drums** **
Joe Nay – drums** **Alan Praskin – alto saxophone** **Jürgen Seefelder – tenor saxophone****
Christoph Widmoser – guitar** **Andreas Witte – drums**

![Картинки по запросу Barbara Dennerlein - Best Of Blues: Through
The Years](https://i.scdn.co/image/03aeac95d74726d2dc04c4190ea70e813b323888)

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