Ella Burkhardt & Band feat. Nils Landgren / Lehmann Audio

Ella Burkhardt, the German-Swedish singer from Schleswig-Holstein, began her career with a bang when she performed with Nils Landgren at JazzBaltica 2017. Even as a schoolgirl, she amazed and thrilled audiences,

whether at “Jugend Jazzt” or when she appeared on stage with her father Ingolf Burkhardt, trumpeter with the NDR Big Band. She began her musical journey at the age of six on the piano, followed by her first singing lessons

at 13. The promising artist studied jazz singing in Maastricht and has already sung in a wide variety of groups, whether with a big band or alone with her guitar. In 2023, Ella Burkhardt was awarded the prestigious JazzBaltica

sponsorship award in Timmendorfer Strand. Impressed by the young singer, composer, songwriter, pianist and guitarist, Norbert Lehmann, himself a musician, sound engineer, and founder of the world-famous concert series

“Analogtage” at the Bauer Studios in Ludwigsburg, Germany, where brilliant concerts are streamed live and recorded at the same time, invited Ella to perform with a top-class band: Together with Swedish trombonist and singer

Nils Landgren, her father, Kjell Kitzing (guitar), Christian Frentzen (piano, keyboards), Marius Goldhammer (bass), and Stephan Schuchardt (drums), she was to perform live in front of an audience as part of “Analogtage 2024.”

With fascinating ease and natural feeling, Ella Burkhardt sings everything: soul, folk, and all this with the complex jazz background she grew up with and a deeply felt worldview. “She lives what she loves,” says Nils Landgren

about Ella Burkhardt. “She is following in the footsteps of the great Ella Fitzgerald and continuing on her own path.” The magnificent concert was recorded live in front of an audience using the demanding and challenging direct-to-2-track

method at the legendary Bauer Studios in Ludwigsburg and is now being released by Lehmann Audio in the form of a sonically outstanding 180-gram vinyl (33 rpm). Daniel Krieger (Schallplatten Schneid Technik, Frankfurt) is responsible

for the half-speed mastering.

Title

Side A
1.    Cherokee
2.    How Come
3.    October21

Side B
4.    Night Life
5.    Fragile
6.    The Letter
7.    Both Sides Now