Trumpet Tales
Klaus Wienerroither & Barbara Bruckmüller Big Band
Trumpet Tales is the collaborative project of Austrian guitarist, composer, and radio producer Klaus Wienerroither and the Barbara Bruckmüller Big Band, released November 28, 2025 on Quinton Records. Recorded in August 2023 at the ORF RadioKulturhaus in Vienna — an original broadcast for Austrian cultural radio station Ö1 — the album functions as a deeply personal portrait of nine jazz trumpet legends: Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Chet Baker, Clifford Brown, Kenny Wheeler, Don Cherry, Freddie Hubbard, and Woody Shaw, spanning roughly a century of the instrument's history in jazz. Wienerroither, who has described the album as a lifelong dream project, composed all ten tracks as tributes to these figures, with arrangements divided among Bruckmüller, saxophonist Tobias Hoffmann, and Wienerroither himself.
Each composition draws on the character and legacy of its subject rather than simply quoting their recordings. "Slow Motion Pops" opens the record with a Louis Armstrong portrait inspired by slow-motion footage of the trumpeter, shifting from stately swing into double time; "Cliffhanger" incorporates melodic motives from Clifford Brown's celebrated "Joy Spring"; "Cherry Bluesome" ventures into African and Indian rhythmic influences reflecting Don Cherry's eclectic practice; and "So, Dizzy?" recounts, through a 5/4 rock groove, the notorious knife confrontation between a young Gillespie and his employer Cab Calloway. The solo voices across the album are provided by a rotating ensemble of Austrian and international trumpet players — Marc Osterer, Martin Ohrwalder, Lorenz Widauer, Daniel Nösig, and Manfred Holzhacker — with Serbian vocalist Marija Miletić contributing to the Baker-dedicated "Chet," for which Wienerroither wrote an original lyric.
Trumpet Tales
Klaus Wienerroither & Barbara Bruckmüller Big Band
Trumpet Tales is the collaborative project of Austrian guitarist, composer, and radio producer Klaus Wienerroither and the Barbara Bruckmüller Big Band, released November 28, 2025 on Quinton Records. Recorded in August 2023 at the ORF RadioKulturhaus in Vienna — an original broadcast for Austrian cultural radio station Ö1 — the album functions as a deeply personal portrait of nine jazz trumpet legends: Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Chet Baker, Clifford Brown, Kenny Wheeler, Don Cherry, Freddie Hubbard, and Woody Shaw, spanning roughly a century of the instrument's history in jazz. Wienerroither, who has described the album as a lifelong dream project, composed all ten tracks as tributes to these figures, with arrangements divided among Bruckmüller, saxophonist Tobias Hoffmann, and Wienerroither himself.
Each composition draws on the character and legacy of its subject rather than simply quoting their recordings. "Slow Motion Pops" opens the record with a Louis Armstrong portrait inspired by slow-motion footage of the trumpeter, shifting from stately swing into double time; "Cliffhanger" incorporates melodic motives from Clifford Brown's celebrated "Joy Spring"; "Cherry Bluesome" ventures into African and Indian rhythmic influences reflecting Don Cherry's eclectic practice; and "So, Dizzy?" recounts, through a 5/4 rock groove, the notorious knife confrontation between a young Gillespie and his employer Cab Calloway. The solo voices across the album are provided by a rotating ensemble of Austrian and international trumpet players — Marc Osterer, Martin Ohrwalder, Lorenz Widauer, Daniel Nösig, and Manfred Holzhacker — with Serbian vocalist Marija Miletić contributing to the Baker-dedicated "Chet," for which Wienerroither wrote an original lyric.