From Barbara Dennerlein....jul 2011

Hammond firework for 20th anniversary

The International Jazz Festival in Mülheim an der Ruhr celebrated itself with a musical firework. The opening "Night of Jazz" was dedicated to the Hammond organ with three bands on stage. Barbara Dennerlein and her Bebab band - now enlarged to a quintet - set the final point of this night and elated the audience with grooving and bluesy organ jazz. The windy and rainy weather prevented people from visiting the open air event at the Broich Castle courtyard but those who came there saw a firework of music.
The newspaper "Der Westen" wrote (translated): "Even the castle ghost swings! Great music at the 20th international jazz festival in the courtyard of Brioch Castle.
Unfortunately also the rain god loves wonderful sound of the old Hammond B3. The visitors of the festival's opening night covered under their umbrellas. But this was more than outweighed by the mighty grooves of an organ inferno of hard bop and fusion jazz that can rarely be heard elsewhere at so-called jazz festivals that are weakened with any sort of world music. (...) In the highly expected concert of Barbara Dennerlein and her "Bebab" band alert arrangements like "Go for it" or "Cleo" proved that the Hammond organ sounds timeless and fresh even though the instrument appears like a dinosaur in the era of computer music. Huge applause for the congenial band from Munich that would have deserved a much larger audience. "