Wolfgang Haffner Kind Of Spain

The “Sound of Europe,” captured and documented on CD and vinyl. For over 25 years, the ACT label has had a consistent mission to support and promote European jazz, and had substantial impact through doing it. All shades, all hues…but with an emphasis on specific countries and regions, among which maybe the best examples are Sweden and France. Of these two countries, ACT’s connection to Spain is perhaps the less well-known, and yet the very first production by the label was a venture involving Spain, Germany and the USA. In July 1992 label founder Siggi Loch brought the WDR Big Band together in Cologne with a few of the finest flamenco specialists from the Iberian peninsula, as well as heavyweights from American jazz such as Al Di Meola. The result was “Jazzpaña” (ACT 9212-2) which garnered two Grammy nominations, a major success for th...

Wolfgang Haffner / drums
Jan Lundgren / piano
Sebastian Studnitzky / trumpet
Daniel Stelter / guitar
Christopher Dell / vibraphone
Lars Danielsson / bass

Produced by Lars Danielsson with Wolfgang Haffner
Executive Producer & Curator: Siggi Loch
Recorded by Arne Schumann at Hansa Studios Berlin, January 21 & 22, 2017
Mixed by Arne Schumann@Schumann&Bach
Mastered by Peter Heider at Purecuts
Cover art by Gert & Uwe Tobias, by permission of the artist