Zarek 10
Margareth Kammerer/Ruby Ruby Ruby – The Shadow Of Your Smile
Margareth Kammerer (vocals, acoustic guitar)
Derek Shirley (bass)
Steve Heather (drums)
with guests Axel Doerner (trumpet), Michael Thieke (clarinet), Thomas Meadowcroft (organ) & Tobias Delius (tenor sax)
“When I asked Margareth Kammerer about doing an album with Billy Holiday tunes or jazz standards she simply declared “You are Crazy! No Way!”. A little time later she came up to me “you know, I thought about your idea …”. Shortly after that in about 2005 I organized a no-budget Zarek label festival in the Berlin venue Ausland, mainly because there hadn’t been releases out for quite a while, and asked Maggy to contribute a set as a future artist of the label. She came up on stage with a big surprise doing her first versions of jazz standards, purely on vocals and guitar with no backing band. As expected she had turned the tunes into something totally own and unique, truely Maggy universe.
Everything I had imagined she could do with the songs she’d done that night. Paying little attention to the conventions she had made them completely her own, with a very special timbre and intonation and her unique accompanyments. She did what any great artist of this so big history had done: playing her own music on the base of a given melody & text. It was a long process of several years to release this album, from finding the right (backing) band to finalizing the mixes & graphic design, but as it is timeless sound, there is no right or wrong moment for putting out this release.”
Ignaz Schick, 03/2009
CD (Zarek 10) • Euro 14.- • Best.-Nr. 1039