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“Coming up…. The Bitter and the Sweet is climbing the charts ” (Apr.06)
As you already know, the new CD will be released the 28th April. One week before, the CD, still not available on the market, has already started to climb up the charts.
In the www.amazon.de ranking the CD already went up to position 8620 (on the 21. April )
… and went on to 7414 (on the 22. April).
In the Jazzcharts of www.jpc.de the CD was on position 15 on April 18th.
… and went up to position 5 on April 22nd.
To follow this very exciting development just click on the links.
“Jazz-CD of the month in AUDIO” (Apr.06)
The magazin AUDIO chose “The Bitter and the Sweet” to be the “Jazz-CD of the Month” .
Five “ears” in music and five “ears” in sound…..
Thank you very much for appreciating our work!
“Petite Armoire – Now on sale!” (Apr.06)
Those who have seen the Cécile Verny Quartet on stage in the past two years maybe also had the occasion to listen to the atmospheric ballad “Petite Armoire” that Cécile dedicated to her small cabinet where she stores all the souvenirs she had brought from her journeys.
She likes to take them out from time to time and to think back to the times and places from where she had got them.
A studio version of the song is now available, but only as a music download on the internet at the following address:
An extra musical candy – not only for fans!
“Jazzpreis Baden Württemberg for Torsten Krill” (Feb 06)
Torsten Krill, the drummer of the Quartet receifes the award “Jazzpreis Baden-Württemberb” for the year 2006.
Bravo!!!!
“The Bitter and the Sweet” (Feb 06)
The latest CD of the CVQ is finished and left the factory on the 17.Feb.
The title is “The Bitter and the Sweet” and the CD will be released by the End of April 06.
“Jazz Festival Dubai” (Jan 06)
The Jazz Festival Dubai has been postponed until March 2006 (see dates-page).
“New Year Reception in the New Palace, Stuttgart” (Jan 06)
On January 13, 2006 the CVQ played at the Near Reception, traditionally held by the Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg in the New Palace, Stuttgart
“Underestimated” (Jan 06)
The magazine “JAZZTHETIK” presents Cécile in its January edition in the section “What happened in 2005″: She is listed in the category “underestimated” independently by two different journalists.
“Rencontres musicales” in Kampala (Dez 05)
for those who do not know where Uganda is ……
check the map!
At the beginning of December the CVQ was invited to travel to Uganda by the Alliance Française and the German Embassy in Kampala. The trip was sponsored by the “Ugandan German Cultural Society” in Kampala and the Belgian Airline SN. Thank you very much!
The week started with a workshop with Ugandan High School Students and students of the International School Kampala in the National Theatre.
Then the band met some Ugandan Musicians for a “rencontre musical” where they all played together the quartet’s music as well as some pieces written by their Ugandan colleagues. This was a great experience for all of them.
A concert in front of an audience of 600 people was the highlight of the trip to Uganda. The band played in a breathtaking African scenery together with the Ugandan “Baximba Waves” as their curtain raisers. When the Ugandan musicians returned on stage in order to play the last three pieces with the CVQ, the audience entered the stage, applauding and dancing.
After the concert the band went on safari for two days in the Queen Elizabeth National Park.
to see more pics of our Uganda – Tour
CLICK HERE
“Women’s Night in Leverkusen”
(Nov 05)
In October the ESB went on tour with the saxophone players Sébastien Jarousse and Matthias Erlewein and the trumpet player Lukas Fröhlich. Hamburg, Hannover, Kassel, Berlin and Ingolstadt were stages of the tour. The last concert when the ESB played at Women’s Night at the “Leverkusener Jazztage” together with Marianne Faithful, Rebecca Bakken and Anna-Maria Jopek was a great success.
“News from the “Klangküche”
(Sep 05)
In September the CVQ recorded their new CD “The Bitter and the Sweet” in the “Klangküche” in Stuttgart. The CD is going to be released at the end of April 2006. Another highlight in September was the concert at the “Gipfel du Jazz” on the Augustinerplatz in Freiburg when the band played one more time with the saxophone player
Sébastien Jarousse.
CLICK
HERE to see pictures from the studio-Session
“Vienna Art” (May05)
An overwhelming open air atmosphere welcomed the CVQ at the Vienna Art Festival where the band shared the stage with the exceptional singer Erika Stucky from Switzerland.
CLICK HERE for pictures from the gig
“Afternoon in Paris” (Apr 05)
Cécile’s European Songbook was presented in the Jazzhaus Freiburg in January 2005 with Simon Finch (trpt.), Finn Peters (as./fl.) and Sébastien Jarousse, then the band went on tour through southern Germany.The Stadttheater Heidelberg and the Unterfahrt in Munich were stages of the tour.The highlight of the tour was the concert for Radio France in the legendary studio “Charles Trenet”.
“Jazz Award Baden-Württemberg”(Feb 04)
In Spring 04 Cécile Verny was nominated on second position for the Jazz Award Baden-Württemberg 2004. The CVQ went on tour with the award winner Jo Amros (guitar) through soutern Germany and Switzerland at the end of December 2004.
New Project:
“Cécile Verny – European Songbook” (July/04)
Here is a brief outline of this current project:
Cecile, the other quartet members and a brass/woodwind section are playing jazz standards which have been composed by European musicians and arranged by 4 internationally renowned arrangers.
The CD has been recorded in 2004 and will be released in January 2005 on “Minor Music Records” located in Hamburg.
…..more information to come.
“www.cecile-verny.com” (July/04)
Finally, Cécile has launched her own personal web site. At the moment, it is available in German only. Please feel free to visit and check out the site. We will be happy to hear your comments.
However, you should better not touch anything as the paint might still be wet ;-)
“Cecile Verny Quartet live in Antibes” on DVD (July/04)
On July 16th the CVQ performed at the oldest Jazzfestival in Europa, the “Jazz a Juan” in Antibes, Juan les Pins. This magic evening on which also jazz-legend Herbi Hancock performed on the same stage, was filmed by Zycopolis, a company specialised on live-videos. The director was Patrick Savey (see article below at “broadcasting of the Videofilm”..). The video was already broadcasted five times with very big resonance in France.
Due to the extraordenary artistical and technical quality of the material the CVQ and Double-Moon (the lable) decided to release this dokument as DVD.
The DVD “Cecile Verny Quartet live in Antibes” will be released in September 04 !
Cécile & Herbie in Antibes – Juan les Pins
WDR – Broadcast – recording
(Feb 04)
Our gig at the Jazzschmiede in Düsseldorf will be filmed by the German TV-Station WDR, “West Deutscher Rundfunk” and this material will be broadcasted later.
We will keep you updated about that. See tourdates for the broadcast-dates.
there will be some ….
“broadcasting of the Videofilm” (Feb 04) …..
that was made about the concert in Antibes/Juan les Pins-festival last July.
Patric Savey, the director who had filmed nearly all the big names in Jazz and Pop, from Dizzy Gillespie and Abbey Lincoln up to Red Hot Chili Peppers and Jamiroquai caught extraordinary shots form our performance and has put together a great 52 minute live-video.
Maybe some of you can get the french channel “Mezzo” via satellit. The broadcasting will be on the 24. February at 22.50 and will be repeated on the 1st, 4th and on the 8th. May
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Cécile Verny awarded twice in newcomer competition” (Apr 03)
Cécile Verny has been hailed as one of the great European jazz divas for quite a long time. Now she is really entering the spotlight after receiving two awards in the newcomer competition of “Jazz à Juan”, Antibes. The international festival in southern France is a summit of today’s jazz scene with one newcomer artist joining the stars on the central stage in Juan-les-Pins. Cécile Verny and her quartet, who were awarded best group of the category “vocal jazz” and were awarded the jury’s “Grand Prize”, will perform in a double concert with jazz legend Herbie Hancock on July 16th.
For many years, Cécile and the band have been working on a repertoire of originals and a few select jazz standards, creating a unique style and a strong musical identity. As a consequence of this work and an endless number of concerts in countries around the world, Cécile Verny (vocals), Andreas Erchinger (piano), Bernd Heitzler (bass) and Torsten Krill (drums) now seem to be making their breakthrough on the international jazz scene.
Jazz a Juan, revelation 2003
“
Tour in the indian ocean”
(Dez 02)
The island Reunion is located in the indian ocean, north of Madagascar and beside Mauritius. This island has a community of jazz-fans gathered in an association named Jazzami which organizes jazz-activities through the year.
For the season 2003 Jazzami has choosen Cécile Verny as godmother….
So for the end of the season 2003, Jazzami invited the CVQ to perform on Reunion for one week from the 9.th June on for.
“Nancy Jazz Pulsations” (April 02)
After beeing sucessful with the CVQ in the year 2000 the Nancy Jazz Pulsations (NJP) asked the CVQ again to join the festival in the year 2002.
So at the beginning of October ’02 the CVQ will be touring the east of france for the festival.
“Deutschlandfunk – interview and music” (April 02)
The day the CD was released in Cologne Cécile and Bernd gave an interview to Anja Buchmann from Deutlandfunk/WDR. This interview, and of course music from the CVQ will be broadcasted on may 03. 2002 at 22.05 on Deutschlandfunk. For those who cannot be at the CVQ’s concert in Pforzheim at that day this broadcasting will be a good way of getting the daily dose of CVQ you need.
“Something got lost on the way” (March 02)
Those of you who have been reading exactly might have found out that the quartet lost something ….. we lost the second (so to say the third;.) “t ” in quartett and since Kekeli (2002) it is the Cécile Verny Quartet instead of the former Cécile Verny Quartett.
Why???
We and our record company found out that people that speak English and French are always iconfused about the second “t ” which is only used in German.
Originaly we used the German form of quartet(t) because we also wanted to point out the undeniable German part (2/3rd) of the band. Now we followed a more overall and international spirit. Thats it!
“KEKELI coming” (Feb 02)
The new CD is finished and will be released in Germany, France, Italy and Japan, starting in April. The “hometown-pre-release” will be in Freiburg/Germany on March 17th in the theater “Kurbel”. The PA system for this special concert will be provided by the German brand AER and its distribution Procon. The official German release-concert will take place April 6th in Cologne.
“KEKELI recorded” (Nov 01)
From October 29th until November 1st the CVQ recorded 60 minutes of MUSIC and two guests were invited to share this with the band.
Ekkehard Rössle on soprano-sax and Frank Kuruc on acoustic guitar.
To peek into the studio and see pictures just click
“New CD in preparation” (Sept 01)
With very intensive composing, arranging and rehearsals the Quartet is preparing the next CD. This CD will be recorded in the end of oktober in the “Klangküche” studio in Stuttgart.
As, nearly traditional, the repertoir that will be recorded is consisting mainly of originals composed by Andreas Erchinger and Bernd Bernd Heitzler with lyriks in english and french language.
What is already decicid is the title of the CD:
KEKELI
Kekeli is ewe, a togolais (west-african) language, and has the meaning “light”
More details soon.
“Métisse reaches over 2300 prints” (Mar 01)
About 1,25 years after the releaseconcert in Nov ’99 the CD Métisse has reached the remarkable number of prints of 2300 CD’s.
“Change is anounced” (Dez. 00)
In January ’01, the CVQ will play its last concert with the drummer Matthias Daneck. Matthias and the band will stop their working together that lasted for about four years and led to ” uncountable ” gigs, tours, three CD’s and several TV and Radio-productions.
The place in the Quartett will be first be taken by Stuttgart based 29 year old Torsten Krill. No concerts or other activity of the band will be influenced in a negative way by this change…. Even more, the Band is in preparation for the next CD and one of the tunes was already performed at the last concert with Matthias on drums in Freiburg (the 23.12.00).
“Three countrys – one airport ” (May 00)
The CVQ will be playing live for a TV-report, produced by the french FR3 and the german SWR.
The title of the report will be “Three countries – one airport” and it will be filmed at the euro-airport Basel-Mulhouse. The show will be broadcasted in france (FR3 27.05. from 17.00 on) and in germany ( SWR 01.06. from 18.05 on). The band was choosen because of the similarity between the CVQ and the euro-airport: international but also “regional”.
“CVQ in Assisi” (Jan 00)
Paul Winters Missa Gaia will be played this september in Assisi and the whole CVQ will be with. Cécile Verny will be the lead-vocalist/solist and Bernd Heitzler, Andreas Erchinger and Matthias Daneck will pe part of the orchestra.
Ther are plans for having also the quartett performing one night his recent programm…..
“First two months” (Jan 00)
Coming out in November the new CD already sold 900 copys in the last two months of 1999. Not a bad part of that was also in Japan…..
“Métisse is out” (Nov 99)
On November 5.& 6.th the new CD was presented to the public at the Theatercafe Freiburg. Now the band will slowly start again touring Germany, France and whole Europe to promote the new CD and programm. For the first half of 00 concerts will be ranging from in Zürich, Paris, Bruessel up to Hellsinki.
” Métisse ” (Jun 99)
More work was done on the new CD… that will come out under the name ” Métisse ” on 1st November 1999.
Here a preview on the track list: (texter/cotexter – composer/cocomposer)
1 What If ? (Samuel Coleridge/Cécile Verny – Andreas Erchinger)
2 A Cradle Song (William Blake – Andreas Erchinger)
3 Métisse (Cécile Verny – Andreas Erchinger)
4 Running After Dreams (Cécile Verny – Andreas Erchinger)
5 What Without The Beauty Within (Matthias Daneck)
6 Lines In The Sky (Bernd Heitzler)
7 Tout Passe (Cécile Verny – Matthias Daneck)
8 Badobe ya (Cécile Verny – Andreas Erchinger)
9 All Is Gone (Dave Westgate – Bernd Heitzler / Cécile Verny)
10 Il Est Trop Tard (Georges Moustaki – G. Moustaki / Cécile Verny / Andreas Erchinger )
11 I’ve Got You Under My Skin (Cole Porter arr. Bernd Heitzler)
” Concours National de la Defense “
Out of 100 bands the Quartett and 14 other groups were selected to perform on the 19.06.99 in the Concours National de la Defense in Paris.
” The new CD is in production “
In the middle of may the quartett will go to the recording-studios and begin with the production of the next CD. The concept of the record will be similar to the one of Got A Ticket- lots of own compositions and some Standards and adopted tunes.
Release of the record is planned for autumn 99. The titel is not decided yet……
” Got A Ticket hits the 3000 “
One year after the official release (in Feb.98) the CD ” Got A Ticket ” was distributed 2500 times. Now the 4th edition with 500 copies was done and there are now 3000 copies of the CD on earth.
” Feiburger Künstler spielen für Wiwlil “
Am 29.11.findet im Freiburger Stadttheater eine Matinee unter dem Motto: ” Freiburger Künstler spielen für Wiwlil.” statt. Der Erlös der Veranstaltung kommt der Nicaruganischen Partnerstadt Freiburgs zugute. Das CVQ, der Jazzchor Freiburg und viele andere sind mit dabei. Presse beachten!!
“Die Entwicklung von Got A Ticket “
Am Freitag den 13. Februar 1998 stellte das CVQ im Freiburger Waldsee seine neue CD der Öffentlichkeit vor. Im gleichen Monat wurde die CD beim Label Double-Moon (LC: 1221) mit einer Erstauflage von 1000 Stück veröffentlicht und fand sehr schnell Resonanz in den verschiedensten Medien. Nachdem die Erstauflage schon im März vergriffen war wurde nochmal 1000 Stück nachgepresst. “Got A Ticket” erreichte also schon im März 98 die Auflage von 2000.
Ende August war auch die zweite Pressung vergriffen und “Got A Ticket” ging mit weiteren 500 Stück in die dritte Auflage. Sieben Monate nach der Erstveröffentlichung erreicht die CD im September 98 also eine Gesamtauflage von 2500 Stück.
Somit ist die CD die bestverkaufteste CD ihres Lables Double-Moon im Jahr 98.
” Cécile Verny Quartett beim MadaJazzcar-Festival in Tananarive, Madagascar “
Am 23.10 wird das Quartett auf Einladung der cercle-germano-Malagasy für eine Woche nach Madagascar Reisen um dort beim diesjährigen MadaJazzcar Festival aufzutreten. Neben dem Festival-Auftritt steht ein Workshop mit madagassischen Musikern und ein Club-Konzert auf dem Reiseplan.
Tip: Madagascar ist der ” Kleine Kontinent ” süd-östlich von Africa (vgl. Karte)
“Fête de la musique in Dar Es Salaam/Tanzania “
Einer Einladung der Allianz Francaise folgend wird das Cécile Verny Quartett am 19. und 21.06 in Dar Es Salaam, der Hauptstadt des ostafrikanischen Tanzanias, gastieren. Bei diesem Konzerten ist es auch geplant einen Teil der Stücke des Programms mit tanzanischen Musikern zusammenzuspielen.
“Keine Kunstwerke für die Ewigkeit “
Vom 17.05., an werden die “Sieben Akzente”, Werke Freiburger Künstler, im Stadtgarten zu sehen sein.
Keine Monumente wollten die Künstler errichten, sondern entsprechend dem Motiv der Vergänglichkeit zerbrechliche, verletzliche Objekte fast unscheinbar in die Parklandschaft integrieren. Diese Kunstwerke für den zweiten Blick sind auch dem Vandalismus ungeschützt ausgesetzt. Das Cécile Verny Quartett ist mit einem Kunstwerk von Wilhelm Morath dabei:
” Metamorphe Intervention oder Wohnungen für Ohrwürmer”
An dreißig Bäumen des Stadtgartens hängen Pflanztopfkapseln aus C-4 Chinaschilf. Ihr Innenleben besteht aus Kommunikationsprodukten zum Thema: “Freiburger Stadtgarten”. An der Aktion haben sich Künstler, Schriftsteller, Musiker, Wissenschaftler und Politiker beteiligt. Die Kapseln werden dem ökologischen Prozeß überantwortet und geben im Laufe der Zeit ihren Inhalt frei.
Berg, Gerber, Jung, Dr Kärn, Kimmig, Koberg, Krauss, Prof Dr. Krings, Morat, NAPAC AG, Neuer, Palm, Schelkes, Stoll, Suzuki, TASS, Utz, Cecile Verny Quartett, Yamanobe, Fitterer, Off, Ohlmer, Prof.Dr. Vogellehner, Wilke
Das CVQ gab eine Mindisc mit einer am 07.05.98 speziell dafür angefertigten Aufnahme von “What If ?”, (Colridge-Verny/Erchinger). Sozusagen als “Vorahnung” für seine nächste CD, gab das CVQ diesen Titel in die “Frucht-Kapsel” und hofft daß zum Zeitpunkt, an dem die Frucht ihren Inhalt freisetzen wird, die neue CD ebenfalls mit diesem Titel darauf erscheinen wird.
” Got A Ticket ” in Japan.
Ab März ist die CD in einem der grössten Vertriebe vor Ort in Japan im Handel erhältlich. Nachdem die erste Auflage von 1000 Stück Mitte Februar an Händler und ausländische Vertriebe ausgeliefert war, wurde nachgepresst. Die CD ist jetzt wieder uneingeschränkt lieferbar.
” Got A Ticket ” Jetzt auch in Frankreich und der Schweiz
Der Vertrieb der von ” Got A Ticket ” In Frankreich wird die neue CD bald durch
DAM distribution, DAM S.A. 17 Rue Paul Seramy, 77301 Fontaineblau,
und in der Schweiz durch Plainisphare, 1267 Vich, CH
” Got A Ticket ” schon ab 15. Dezember”
Noch vor dem offiziellen Erscheinen der CD im Januar (double-moon-lable) kann die neue CD bei mir direkt bestellt werden. Wer noch was zu Weihnachten braucht……
Der Titel: ” GOT A TICKET “. Darauf sind 7 Eigenkompositionen von Andreas Erchinger und Bernd Heitzler sowie drei “Standarts”….
” Coquelicot ” Auf einer CD zugunsten der französischen Krebshilfe hat das CVQ den Titel: ” Save Your Love for Me” aufgenommen. Titel der CD: ” Coquelicot “. Schirmherrschaft hat Patricia Kaas, Erscheinungstermin/offizielle Vorstellung: 13.12.97 Strassburg, Opera du Rhine