"Black is the Color "(Arr. for Btrb, Piano & Tenorsax)

Live recording of the award ceremony of the annual Ritter Prize, sponsored by the Oskar and Vera Ritter Foundation Hamburg, on 8 November 2022 at the Laeiszhalle Hamburg.
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"Black is the colour (of my true love's hair)" is a traditional ballad folk song, best known in the USA, but thought to have roots in Scotland.
Perhaps its most influential recording was released in 1959 by the incomparable singer and pianist Nina Simone, but the song has also found its way into contemporary music compositions, when the Italian composer Luciano Berio wrote his song cycle 'Folk Songs' in 1964, of which 'Black is the colour' is the first song.
A great rendition of this arrangement was recorded on church organ by British pianist Kit Downes in 2015 on his album 'Obsidian', which has been a significant influence on me.


Maxine Troglauer - Basstrombone
Florian Weber - Piano
Alexander Prill - Tenorsaxophone
Sound - Kian Jiazdi
Video - Leon Ohmenzetter

"Classical music, jazz, contemporary music - for Maxine Troglauer these are not genres that can be meticulously separated. They are organically interconnected resonance spaces that give the bass trombonist, who was born in Wiesbaden in 1995, the opportunity to engage in a self-confident dialogue with the past. Troglauer does not think in clichés, but recognises possibilities. Her declared aim is to free her instrument from its niche and help it to develop its own repertoire."
(Josef Engels, "WELT," "Jazz thing", "Rondo")



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