Tracks 1Hippie ( Haffner, Wolfgang) 05:39 2So What ( Davies, Miles) 07:21 3Autumn Leaves ( Enoch, Jacques|Kosma, Joseph) 04:05 4Tantricity ( Haffner, Wolfgang) 03:22 5Summertime ( Gershwin, George) 05:24 6My Funny Valentine ( Rodgers, Richard|Hart, Lorenz) 07:02 7One For Daddy O ( Adderly, Nat) 06:26 8I Fall In Love Too Easily ( Styne, Jule|Cahn, Sammy) 05:57 9Django ( Lewis, John) 05:02 10Remembrance ( Haffner, Wolfgang) 04:57 Wolfgang Haffner / drums Christopher Dell / vibraphone Jan Lundgren / piano Dan Berglund / bass Dusko Goykovich / trumpet Jukka Perko / alto saxophone Guests: Max Mutzke / vocals Frank Chastenier / piano Christian von Kaphengst / bass Nils Landgren / trombone Recording Information Recorded by Arne Schumann on August 14 & 15, 2014 at Hansa Studio, Berlin. Recording Assistant: Jonas Zadow “Piano Man“ recorded by Philip Krause on July 15, 2014 at Emil-Berliner-Studio, Berlin Mixed by Arne Schumann@Schumann&Bach Mastered by Peter Heider at Purecuts Cover art (detail) by Gert & Uwe Tobias, by permission of the artists James Dean and Marlon Brando were the glamorous heroes of the silver screen in the 50s. Character actors, sex symbols, blasé eccentrics with a penchant for extravagance. Role models for the rebellious youth: the embodiment of cool. A new attitude towards life was spreading around the USA. "The Birth of the Cool" also happened at the same time in the field of jazz, leading it to become the soundtrack of a generation. Miles Davis, John Lewis and the Modern Jazz Quartet, Dave Brubeck and Chet Baker (the "James Dean of jazz") gave jazz a whole new direction: the search for a special "cool" atmosphere based on tone and space in jazz, on substantial melodies with a laid-back approach designed for the collective. But this music was never cold-cool, it was merely played and conceived with what one might call a coo...