hr-Bigband – Frankfurt Radio Big Band
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4LDP8Ee097zy6WOMuxI6Ag

Rebekka Bakken sings Tom Waits? Yes!

BROKEN BICYCLES is a composition by Tom Waits
arranged by Jörg Achim Keller

AMERICANA
Rebekka Bakken sings Tom Waits
Rebekka Bakken | vocals
Jörg Achim Keller | conductor
Soloist: Nils van Haften, bari

Live-Recording at hr-Sendesaal, Frankfurt, February 07th 2013

A woman who sings Tom Waits? You can't do that! Yes, you can. The Norwegian singer Rebekka Bakken proved it in 2013 in an impressive way with this unique project with the Frankfurt Radio Big Band. The arrangements by conductor Jörg Achim Keller do not try to copy Tom Waits. They have their own touch and yet he knows exactly where this music belongs and how it should sound when played by a big band. "Americana" was a very successful project by Rebekka Bakken with the Frankfurt Radio Big Band, which the singer subsequently released as an album. We are happy to be able to present the live recordings again in single tracks!

www.hr-bigband.de

hr-Bigband:
trumpets: Frank Wellert, Thomas Vogel, Martin Auer, Axel Schlösser
saxophones: Heinz-Dieter Sauerborn, Oliver Leicht, Tony Lakatos, Steffen Weber, Nils van Haften
trombones: Günter Bollmann, Peter Feil, Christian Jaksjö, Achim Hartmann
piano: Peter Reiter
guitar: Martin Scales
bass: Thomas Heidepriem
drums: Jean Paul Höchstädter
percussion: Eddy Koopmann

Credits:
Olaf Stötzler, manager Frankfurt Radio Bigband
Stefan Kuhnert, executive producer
Axel Gutzler, sound-engineer
Thomas Eschler, sound-engineer

camera: Joelle Schichtel, Udo Stärz, Maximilian Blum, Miriam Monteux
technical production: Kurt Georg Fröhlich, Matthias Hohn, Mathias Hundt, Ulrich Peters
live-streaming: Walter Rade
recording management: Kurz Georg Fröhlich
production manager: Hartmuth Niemczik
producer: Manuel Meyer (hr), Oliver Diers (arte)
editorial office arte live web: Paul Gengenbach, Thomas Martin Salb, Thomas Weiss

A production of Hessischer Rundfunk with ARTE Deutschland 2013


Broken bicycles
Old busted chains
With rusted handlebars
Out in the rain
Somebody must have
An orphanage for
All these things that
Nobody wants any more

September is reminding July
It's time to be saying goodbye
Summer is gone
But our love will remain
Like old broken bicycles
Out in the rain

Broken bicycles
Don't tell my folks
There's all those playing cards
Pinned to the spokes
Laid down like skeletons
Out on the lawn
The wheels won't turn
When the other has gone

The seasons can turn on a dime
Somehow I forget every time
For all the things that
You've given me
Will always stay
Broken but I'll never throw them away

https://genius.com/Tom-waits-broken-bicycles-lyrics


Rebekka Bakken & Modern Art Orchestra | 2021. november 02., kedd, 20:00–22:00, MüPa
Tom Waits-számok, és blues:
https://www.mupa.hu/program/vilagzene-jazz-konnyuzene/rebekka-bakken-modern-art-orchestra-2021-11-02_20-00-bbnh
https://www.facebook.com/events/937679103494139/