Thilo Wolf

The Thilo Wolf Big Band: Swing It! Volume II

by Jack Bowers
June 1, 2001

Cloning sheep? Small potatoes. Pianist Thilo Wolf has cloned an entire big band! On Swing It!, Volume II his German–based ensemble is practically a mirror image of the late pianist Gene Harris’s SuperBand which recorded three albums in 1987–90 for Concord Records, and Wolf himself sounds so much like the irrepressible Harris that it’s downright spooky. Is that a good thing? On balance, yes; Harris fronted a marvelous all–star band, and so does Wolf. There’s nothing disagreeable about that, nor ...