Dixie & Swing Festival
James Morrison swept the audience off their feet
What a brilliant finale to the Dixie & Swing Festival at the Kunsthaus Weiz: Australian star trumpeter James Morrison, together with the Big Band Weiz under Reinhard Summerer, provided a concert of superlatives from the very first seconds.
No wonder this concert swept the audience off their feet, as the multi-instrumentalist (in addition to trumpet, James Morrison also plays trombone, euphonium, flugelhorn, saxophone, piano and probably any other instrument you put in his hand) promised "All of me" right from the start. And he kept this promise right up to the last and vehemently demanded encore - from standards such as Duke Ellington's "Caravan" and George Bassman's "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You", to classics by Louis Armstrong (all in the maestro's original arrangements, of course) to bebop, traditionals and finally his own compositions, which impressively demonstrated Morrison's diverse skills.
He not only enchanted the audience with a samba, but also with his humorous stories, which he told between the numbers. He also had a lot of fun with his colleagues from the brilliant Big Band Weiz, who often engaged in virtuoso dialog with Morrison as soloists - especially Werner Reiter on "No Regret". And when Morrison then accompanied himself on the piano playing trumpet during Armstrong's "Basin Street Blues" and answered questions musically, there was no stopping him anyway.
Enthusiasm not only from the audience, but also from the organizer of the Swing & Dixie Festival, Johannes Hödl, who is only worried about one thing: "How am I going to top this next year?"
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