Woodstock Jazz, by Sting Operation

Woodstock Jazz

by Sting Operation

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1.	See Me, Feel Me 04:51	info	buy track
2.	Purple Haze 03:34	info	buy track
3.	Watching Birds Fly 04:51	info	buy track
4.	Somebody To Love 04:30	info	buy track
5.	One Day At A Time 05:13	info	buy track
6.	Watch Those Towers 04:05	info	buy track
7.	Summertime 04:21	info	buy track
8.	What Would You Think 04:43	info	buy track
9.	The Day After 01:21	info	buy track
10.	Food For Love 04:54	info	buy track
11.	The Woodstock Couple 00:54	info	buy track
12.	White Lake 04:03	info	buy track
13.	Festival Figures 00:43	info	buy track

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An estimated half million people experienced the legendary Woodstock music festival in August 1969. The film documentary shown in movie theaters a year later shaped an entire generation around the globe.
Yet despite, or maybe because of the huge number of witnesses, descriptions of the “3 days of peace & music” are fraught with many contradictions. Richie Havens’s opening set, for example, lasted either a heroic three hours or a mere 45 minutes, depending on the source. Then there are the three legendary Woodstock babies, of whom nobody seems to have heard anything further in the 50 years since passed.
The haziness surrounding the actual events calls for the myth to be acknowledged here musically with equally hazy strokes and a perspective rooted in jazz. Is there any reason not to harmonically and rhythmically expand on songs like “Purple Haze” (Jimi Hendrix), “See Me, Feel Me” (The Who) or “Somebody to Love” (performed by Jefferson Airplane)? Why not convert the urgent storm warnings in John Morris's pleas to the audience into music (“Watch Those Towers”)?
Many who took to the stage at Woodstock drew extensively on what had come before, such as Janis Joplin performing the Gershwin classic “Summertime”, Joan Baez singing the country song “One Day at a Time”, and Joe Cocker presenting the Beatles hit “With a Little Help from My Friends”, which served here as the template for “What Would You Think”. “Watching Birds Fly”, on the other hand, is a tribute to all those festival visitors who let their minds wander while lying in the grass. To this day, Woodstock still inspires.

credits

released June 1, 2019

Devi Reith (vocals), Felix Straumann (sax, composition), Matthias Siegrist (guitar), Peter Leuzinger (bass) and Peter Preibisch (drums)
Produced by Felix Straumann and Peter Bürli (Swiss Public Radio SRF Kultur)

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Sting Operation Switzerland

There are countless pieces of music that practically everyone recognises – often without knowing where from. The jazz project STING OPERATION has been poaching in this realm for some years, using songs that everybody knows as a starting point for unconventional interpretations.

Felix Straumann sax
Devi Reith voc
Matthias Siegrist git
Peter Leuzinger b
Peter Preibisch dm ... more