DESCRIPTION:
Alan Broadbent and NDR Bigband
America The Beautiful

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Compositions by Alan Broadbent -- except #9 Samuel A. Ward, Alan Broadbent
Arrangements by Alan Broadbent

Conductor: Jörg Achim Keller

Trumpets / Flugelhorns:
1. Thorsten Benkenstein
2. Ingolf Burkhardt
3. Claus Stötter, soloist on #7, #9 - except Felix Meyer #4
4. Reiner Winterschladen

Saxophones:
Fiete Felsch (1. as / ss / fl), soloist on #1
Peter Bolte (2. as, fl)
Christof Lauer (1. ts, cl), soloist on #3, #5 - except Gabriel Coburger #2 (ts, cl, ss)
Lutz Büchner (2. ts, ss, cl, fl), soloist on #7, #9
Frank Delle (bs, bcl, fl), soloist on #1 - except Edgar Herzog #4

Trombones:
1. Dan Gottshall, soloist on #1
2. Rainer Sell
3. Stefan Lottermann
Bass-Trombone
4. Ingo Lahme

Piano: Alan Broadbent, soloist on all tracks except #5

Double-Bass: Ingmar Heller, soloist on #4, #8

Drums: Marcel Serierse, soloist on #1, #7, #9 - except Martijn Vink #4

Recorded at NDR Studio 1, Hamburg, Germany (02-05/April/2013), except #4 (29/Oct/2013)

Executive Producer NDR: Axel Dürr, Stefan Gerdes
Producer: Alan Broadbent, Jan Matthies

Recording Producer NDR: Oliver Bergner
Recording Engineer NDR: Michael Plötz, Rudi Grosser (29/Oct/2013)
Recording Technician and Sequoia Operator: Martin Hansen, Stefan Thölen,
Wolfgang Dirks (29/Oct/2013)
Recording Assistants: Andrew Miller, Lasse Zacharias (29/Oct/2013)
Sequoia-Edits: Nico Raschke

Mixing Engineer: Oliver Bergner
Mixed at NDR Studio 1, Hamburg, Germany (12-13 and 21-22/Aug/2013; 10/Jan and 10-11/Feb/2014)
Mastering Engineers: Ralf Kemper & Veith Semrau
Mastered by Ralf Kemper, Veith Semrau and Michael Pagenstedt at Eden Riverside Mastering Lab / http://www.eden-riverside.com
Artwork: Penina S. Finger
Cover photo: Bruce Rolff/Shutterstock

Promotional Film by Vertical Film, http://www.verticalfilm.net

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http://www.ndr.de/bigband

http://www.janmatthiesrecords.com

Booking:
Jan Matthies Music Management, http://www.janmatthies.com

(c) 2014 Jan Matthies Music Management