Concert in Pitea - Barbara Dennerlein

Barbara Dennerlein has returned from her second concert in Pitea / Schweden at the Studio Acusticum. This time she not only played the huge concert organ with 9,000 pipes but also a Hammond C3. Barbara had carried her MIDI-fied pedal board with her to gain her distinctive bass pedal sound. The concert hall has been constructed for 600 visitors and has audio and video recording and transmission equipment that enabled even live transmission to co-operating cinemas and other environments.

Barbara Dennerlein began at the impressive concert organ, constucted by organ builder Gerald Woehl. She created an atmospheric mood with originals like "Blues In The Pipeline" and "Symphony In Minor" or with Count Basie's "Little Darling". The audience was fascinated by the increasing intense that culminated in a free improvisation where Barbara literally pulled all stops and even topped this by a wise use of the percussion registers that are a speciality of this instrument.

In the second part the artist changed to the Hammond organ. Here she performed a mixture of older and newer compositions. With blue notes here, sound cascades there Barbara played a broad variety in sounds and showcased the character of this instrument. She performed a. o. "The Elephant Blues", "Southern Funk" and, as an incredibly fast swinging number, "Black And White". In this concert, the audience immediately experienced the differences between pipe organ and the Hammond that originally had been designed to be an affordable alternative to a pipe organ for the many small congregations in America, but developed to a much valued discrete instrument for jazz, blues and popular music.

At the end Barbara Dennerlein again had completely enthused the audience like one and a half years ago.

The concert was recorded with a complex video system with several cameras. This material will be taken for a concert DVD that will also contain interviews in German and English as bonus tracks.