Thomas Heberer / Dieter Manderscheid – What A Wonderful World

JHM 118
2002

Thomas Heberer - tp
Dieter Manderscheid - b

01. I'm Not Rough (0'30) / 02. Have The Stones Been There? (4'02) / 03. It's Always Some Kind Of A Freak (5'56) / 04. Gully Low Blues - West End Blues (6'51) / 05. From Dipper to Satchmo (2'20) / 06. Cornet Chop Suey (4'04) / 07. Okuka Lokole (3'29) / 08. Daddy Dig (2'31) / 09. Struttin' With Some Barbecue (5'11) / 10. Educating People - Blueberry Hill (3'12) / 11. Hello Dolly (6'52) / 12. New Orleans Functions/Saints (2'27) / 13. The Boon Companions (2'52) / 14. Kazue (3'53) / 15. Mack The Knife (4'01)

Not every artistic effort that has been made is important enough - concer­ning an elegantly arranged abstraction coming up to Louis Armstrong's works - to present a new perspective on "Pop's way of playing. But that's exactly what Dieter Manderscheid and Thomas Heberer impressively achieve: They literally play with the material and they are not afraid of using HipHop-alike samples, scratching and loops.