Premier Swingtett

Global Gypsy Swing: BERLIN.PARIS.MOSKAU.HOLLYWOOD
Original Berliner Uli Hoffmeier (guitar, vocals and curious instruments), nimble-fingered Brad Brose from L.A. (guitar, banjo), Vladimir Miller (clarinet and accordion), a graduate of the Soviet School of Music in Moscow, and Edouard Pennes (bass), the shooting star of Parisian gypsy jazz, have developed a new program in which American swing meets French chanson, Russian soul meets Berlin heart and soul. The international flair of the band is emphasized by the fact that Ulrich Hoffmeier and Vladimir Miller are joined on stage by Italian guitarist Thomas Dekas and Berit Jung and Anders Grop from Sweden on bass. The group sings and swings German sound film hits from the 1920s and 1930s, French musette waltzes, Russian gypsy romances and songs from the “Great American Songbook” with ease. The group's irrepressible joy of playing is expressed in fresh arrangements and subtly interspersed original compositions, as well as in the pointed conférencen that lead through the evening.