City Lights Live at Ella & Louis Volume 2 Thomas Siffling

• 1 I LOVE PARIS 06:31
• 2 I LEFT MY HEART IN SAN FRANCISCO 07:32
• 3 BEIRUT 07:02
• 4 DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT MEANS TO MISS NEW ORLEANS 05:29
• 5 DEAR OLD STOCKHOLM 07:56
• 6 DAN LE PORT D´AMSTERDAM 06:40
• 7 CASTRIES 06:58
• 8 NEW YORK - RIO - TOKYO 06:53
• Total Runtime 55:01

Info for City Lights Live at Ella & Louis Volume 2

In his latest jazz project, “City Lights,” Thomas Siffling and his jazz quintet present musical declarations of love to numerous cities around the world.

Many major cities have been immortalized through music in a wide variety of compositional styles. Of course, one immediately thinks of songs like “I Love Paris,” “New York, New York,” or “Dear Old Stockholm.” But hits from other genres, such as “New York–Rio–Tokyo,” “I Left My Heart in San Francisco,” or Ibrahim Maalouf’s “Beirut,” are also reinterpreted in a beautiful jazz style.

Thomas Siffling, trumpet, flugelhorn
Olaf Schönborn, baritone saxophone, bass clarinet
Andre Weiss, piano
Nico Brandenburg, double bass
Oliver Strauch, drums

Thomas Siffling
Born in Karlsruhe in 1972, he is considered one of the most renowned and successful jazz musicians of his generation in the German-speaking world. He studied jazz trumpet at the music conservatories in Mannheim and Stuttgart.

In the years that followed, he collaborated with Söhne Mannheims, Pit Baumgartner of De-Phazz, the band re:jazz, and Club des Belugas. At the age of 33, he received the Jazz Prize of the State of Baden-Württemberg.

Supported by the Goethe-Institut, he toured India, Sri Lanka, Canada, Haiti, and Italy. Further tours took him to Russia, South America, and almost every European country.

In 2004, he released "Change," his first album featuring electronic influences. Siffling ventured into new musical territory, establishing himself as a key pioneer of Nu Jazz and Lounge Jazz in Germany.

When the opportunity arose in 2018 to establish his own jazz club in the vaulted cellars of the Mannheim Rosengarten, he did not hesitate. With "Ella & Louis," he created one of Germany's finest jazz clubs, hosting over 100 concerts annually with 90% capacity utilization.

Ella & Louis received the national "Applaus" programming award in 2021 and 2022. In 2023 and 2024, *DownBeat* magazine named it one of the top six jazz clubs in Germany and included it in the global top 100.

In recognition of his contributions, Siffling was awarded the "Bloomaul"—the City of Mannheim's highest honorary award—in 2023. In early 2024, he opened a second Ella & Louis location at the Holzhausenschlösschen in Frankfurt.

Since 2022, Siffling has also been performing as a vocalist—clearly following in the footsteps of his great idol, Chet Baker. After a six-year hiatus, he released his 14th album, "Gentlemen's Choice."

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