Bouillon de Notes Band live in Colmar, Elsass, performing for ‘la fête de la musique’ on the first beautiful summer evening the 21st of June 2014!

… here is a little live cut of one of our songs we played that evening ….

We wish all of you a healthy and prosperous 2014! Here comes a little review of some of these moments that have created Bouillon de Notes: wonderful people, unique moments, sharing a plate, listening to music that touches your soul – thanks to all of you!

The song you’re listing to is called ‘for Liên’ – written and performed by Bouillon de Notes Band.

I must admit that we are a little proud to be able to offer besides my cooking also our own band and music … available on CD in 2014!

Richard Bona … one outstanding musician !

to write about Richard is not that easy because his musicality and virtuosity is presented with such a lightness and ‘joie de vivre’ … it’s hard to find the right words.

Our ways crossed for the first time after a concert of Mike (Stern) @Iridium Jazz club in NYC. We didn’t even know that Richard was playing this evening! Right after the concert Mike came to our table thanking us for coming to see his show on a Monday night – I mean it was our pleasure to get to see him … A minute later Richard was showing up and when he heard that we’re coming from France he said: ‘alors on peut se parler en francais’ … that was the beginning of seeing him over and over again on his gigs all over this world or we met in the city.

Richard will always be special to us – he made us a very special surprise on our honeymoon. when we met in the 55Bar he started to improvise on his bass singing with his beautiful voice about love, Liên & Ralf. Everybody who heard already Richard’s singing knows that it is pure magic. We couldn’t think of something better on our honeymoon!

We had such great hangs already together … here with Lionel (Cordew), an incredible drummer from NYC and one of our closest friends …

Richard Bona – one of the greatest musicians we met so far.

Watch him sing and play – he will touch you!

… backstage @Blue Note NYC with Al …

http://www.aldimeola.com

It was one of these nights to remember. On our trips to NYC we are granted to meet gifted musicians – some of them we meet over and over again and today we can say some of them became real friends what means a lot to us.

Tonight we have been in the famous jazz club ‘Blue Note’ that looks back on an incredible history of jazz musicians and their music. When we arrived we got a table right on the stage. What means that you feel like being on stage with the musicians, so close … and tonight we’ll be together with Al Di Meola.

http://www.bluenote.net/newyork/index.shtml

Al took us to another world together with his band and his nylon strings of his acoustic guitar. He was my husband’s idol back in the 70′s when Ralf was learning spanish guitar himself.

After the concert Al, Ralf and myself sat together backstage showing pictures of our children, talking about life. What a great evening and experience to have met Al.

here together with his old friend and musical companion Gumbi Ortiz – an incredible percussionist.

http://www.gumbiortiz.com/gallery.asp

Here you can see and hear the two Al and Gumbi on the Montreal Jazz Festival a couple years back – absolutely fascinating …

My new EP ‘Destiny’ needs an official release date and I’m working on that. Until then you can listen to the title song ‘Destiny’ already – exclusively here on Bouillon De Notes! And you can even see and listen to a second song from the new album Destiny ‘I Don’t Think So’. Hope you enjoy the acoustic and full band versions of that song. One version was filmed and recorded @Baz Bar on St. Barth with the full band. The acoustic version with the trio was filmed and produced by my friends at Bouillon De Notes @Smoke, NYC this year.

New single from Kj’s album “Album No. 9″
Directed by Linton Suttner
Recorded & Mixed by Hal Winer at Bicoastal Music

Available at all live shows
Itunes Release date: 11/09/10

“An Evening with KJ Denhert” May 7, 2011- The trio of KJ, Nikki Denner- keys and Jennifer Vincent-bass, perform Beautiful (music by KJ Dernhert) at The Music Conservatory of Westchester.

Film & photo montage – Ralf Menningen

Pictured: Harvey Whirt, Mamadou Ba, ATN, Lisa Sandagata, special guest Gil Parris, Lien Tran Menningen.

It was an especially beautiful evening and birthday.

It was clear we shoot a video to share BdN with our readers. Here you see version 1.0. So far just a few ‘backstage’ scenes and pictures together with our music played by our BdN band. Even our cat is participating in a short scene … a first take – nevertheless it allows you to sneak around a little backstage to give you an idea what’s happening