When Jazz Queen meets Blues Award Winners

The audience at the Kraichgau Jazzfestival experienced a thrilling concert a week ago by Barbara Dennerlein and the duo Ignaz Netzer / Thomas Scheytt. The Badische Neusten Nachrichten reported on the concert evening in the completely sold out Old Winepress House in Bahnbrücken with the motto: "Jazz Queen Meets German Blues Award Winner".

"Ignaz Netzer, a blues guitarist with a distinctive, smoky voice that conveyed a bluesy feeling, and a confident, fine blues-harp playing, was accompanied by his congenial partner Thomas Scheytt on the piano fine hands for fast boogie melodies ...

After that the Queen of the Hammond B3, Barbara Dennerlein, came on stage as a soloist and enthused from the beginning. She surprised again and again with unconventional harmony changes and fast demanding bass pedal play. Dennerlein: "My daily fitness program." Ignaz Netzer acknowledged: "She plays with her left foot faster than most bassists with their fingers." Stylistically, she moved extremely confidently between blues and swing. But even with her self-composed first "Organ Boogie" she hit the nerve of the audience. In the ballads the princess showed a fine and filigree play on the majestic Hammond B3.

In the second part of the concert, the three musicians presented themselves as well-rehearsed team and gave the best blues and boogie. Titles like "Let The Good Time Roll", "Stormy Weather Blues" and "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" were fun for the audience. The protagonists' play had so much drive, rhythm and groove that a drum kit was not missed. The enthusiastic audience in Bahnbrücken occasionally took over, by clapping the percussion, so Ignaz Netzer commented: "With this we can take Montreux."
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