If today you talk about big bands, you’ve got to mention Peter Herbolzheimer. Not only because the “fat man with the trombone” has been pushing on one of the world’s best and most original big bands, his Rhythm Combination & Brass (RC & B), two and a half decades up to now. In at least the same way his compositions and arrangements ensured – especially in the 70s – partly radical changes with regard to style, line-up and sound. Similarly incomparable was the powerful, always convincingly playing RC & B of the 70s. As can be found out easily, if you listen to this CD! And the soft, personal tones, Herbolzheimer talks about today, have already been there at that time, for example in “Sunflower Chant”, recorded in 1971. Then they came out of Art Farmer’s flugelhorn…