Duets - The Music Of Cole Porter

Mitch Winehouse meets Thilo Wolf Big Band

In duets with Johanna Iser, Bettina Meske, Karolin Konert and Caroline Kiesewetter

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Swing singer Mitch Winehouse and big band leader Thilo Wolf present a new edition of their joint swing album. 14 Porter classics appear in a new, contemporary sound, sung for the first time in duets by Mitch Winehouse with the German singers Johanna Iser, Bettina Meske, Karolin Konert and Caroline Kiesewetter.

British singer Mitch Winehouse and German pianist and big band leader Thilo Wolf have been working together for many years. Their album ‘Swinging Cole Porter’, released in 2021, received rave reviews and was nominated for the German Record Critics' Choice Award. The NDR praised the work with the words: ‘... an album that couldn't sound more timeless and fresh.’

The remastered version of the album once again brings out the timeless elegance and incomparable style of Cole Porter. Mitch Winehouse inspires in new duets with the German singers Johanna Iser, Bettina Meske, Karolin Konert and Caroline Kiesewetter. They are accompanied by the outstanding Thilo Wolf Big Band. Sometimes seductive, sometimes full of energy and charm, they bring the timeless elegance and incomparable style of Cole Porter to life. Swing masters Wolf and Winehouse show once again how fresh and contemporary this timeless music can sound.

14 songs from the pen of the American jazz composer and lyricist Cole Porter are presented in a new guise. Thilo Wolf himself and some of Germany's best arrangers have written new arrangements that allow these classics to shine in a new light.

Line Up

Mitch Winehouse (Vocals)
Guest (Vocals): Johanna Iser, Caroline Kiesewetter, Karolin Konert, Bettina Meske

Thilo Wolf Big Band
Reeds: Norbert Nagel, Julian Bossert (Altosax, Flute, Clarinet), Axel Kühn, Uli Wangenheim (Tenorsax, Flute, Clarinet), Norbert Emminger (Baritonesax, Bass Clarinet)
Trumpets/ Flugelhorns: Felice Civitareale, Florian Menzel, Sebastian Strempel, Omar Kabir
Trombones: Jürgen Neudert, Christoph Müller, Alistair Duncan, Hans-Heiner Bettinger
Piano, Leader: Thilo Wolf
Hammond-Organ: Béatrice Kahl
Guitar: Andreas Blüml
Bass: Markus Schieferdecker
Drums: Matthias Meusel
Percussion: Thomas Hammer (4,7,8)

*Thilo Wolf Swing Selection
Piano, Leader: Thilo Wolf
Tenorsax: Norbert Nagel
Hammond-Organ: Béatrice Kahl
Guitar: Andreas Blüml
Bass: Markus Schieferdecker
Drums: Paul Höchstädter

CREDITS

All compositions & lyrics by Cole Porter
Publishers: Warner Bros Inc (7,8,11,13,14)
Chappell Co Inc (1,2,3,5,6,9,12)
Loews Inc (4,10)

Arrangements: Michael Flügel, Ralf Hesse, Lutz Krajenski, Christoph Müller, Thilo Wolf 

Big Band and Swing Selection recorded at Wavehouse-Studios Fürth by Tom Appl
All Singers recorded at Wavehouse Studios Fürth by Tom Appl
Mixed at Wavehouse-Studios Fürth by Tom Appl & Thilo Wolf
Mastered at Wavehouse-Studios Fürth by Tom Appl
Producer: Thilo Wolf
Cover illustration/ Artwork: Jürgen Held
Fotocredit: Thomas Leidig, Steffi Henn, BM Records, Sascha Pöltl, Silvia Wawarta

Production: Thilo Wolf & Mitch Winehouse for Wavehouse Entertainment GmbH & MW Records