Live full concert filmed of Burt Bacharach at the North Sea Jazz Festival, captured on Saturday 11 July 2009 on the Amazon stage, with Dutch singer Trijntje Oosterhuis as special guest. Drawn from the festival’s official archive, this capture shows the master composer at the piano, surrounded by a full vocal and instrumental ensemble. Author, with lyricist Hal David, of a universal repertoire — “Walk on By,” “I Say a Little Prayer,” “What the World Needs Now Is Love” — Bacharach shaped the pop-jazz songbook of the second half of the twentieth century. Aged 81 at the time of this concert, he remained active and passed his art on to a jazz-festival audience. A valuable live document that captures the harmonic elegance and melodic sense of a legend of American song, in a high-end filmed live concert setting.
Personnel & credits
- Burt Bacharach — piano
- Trijntje Oosterhuis — vocals
- John Pagano — vocals
- Donna Taylor — vocals
- Josie James — vocals
- Elizabeth Chorley — violin
- Thomas Ehlen — trumpet, flugelhorn
- Dennis Wilson — reeds
- David Joyce — keyboards
- Rob Shrock — keyboards
- David Coy — bass
- David Crigger — drums, percussion
