7.8K views · 80 reactions | Tuesday is Blues-day, and today's "Bluesday" feature is the Horace Silver classic minor blues "Nutville" from the 1966 album "The Cape Verdean Blues", here in an arrangement by Jörg Achim Keller, featuring solos by Andy Hunter on trombone, Andy Haderer on trumpet, and Karolina Strassmayer on alto sax. (Recorded live in Studio 4 in June, 2017) | WDR Big Band | Facebook

33K views · 497 reactions | One of the tunes we revisit for next weekend's concerts is this version of Donna Lee, arranged by Michael Mossman (for the 2011 edition of "Very Personal"), conducted by Dennis Mackrel and featuring Mattis Cederberg on Cimbasso. | WDR Big Band | Facebook

20K views · 846 reactions | We are very proud and happy to be able to present our new app, "WDR Big Band Play Along", giving you the opportunity to play along with us, featuring 5 (to begin with) original charts of various difficulty levels! Mix the individual tracks, play along or mute "your" instrument, read the music from the screen, or download it to print out. Have fun, and PLAY ALONG WITH US! Available today in the German App Store and Play Store. | WDR Big Band | Facebook

573K views · 17K reactions | Remembering Quincy Jones: We had the...

340K views · 201 reactions | This week we're playing music from Quincy Jones' classic big band period in the 60ies, so on the Q-note, here's a clip with us and Quincy from a later date, playing with Phil Collins and Tony Bennett at the Montreux Jazz Festival, with Tony presenting a veritable pearl necklace of classic jazz tunes! | WDR Big Band | Facebook