{"id":12456,"date":"2026-07-21T12:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T10:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaempfert.de\/?p=12456"},"modified":"2026-07-22T20:10:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T18:10:06","slug":"strangers-in-the-night-the-music-of-bert-kaempfert-en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaempfert.de\/en\/strangers-in-the-night-the-music-of-bert-kaempfert-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Strangers In The Night \u2013 The Music Of Bert Kaempfert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11776\" src=\"https:\/\/kaempfert.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Cover_The-Music-Of-Bert-Kaempfert_300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kaempfert.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Cover_The-Music-Of-Bert-Kaempfert_300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kaempfert.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Cover_The-Music-Of-Bert-Kaempfert_300-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/kaempfert.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Cover_The-Music-Of-Bert-Kaempfert_300-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><strong>The Berlin Jazz Orchestra &amp; Special Guests<br \/>\nConducted by Jiggs Whigham<\/strong><br \/>\nAs part of the concert series from 2006 and 2008, the recording from February 12, 2008 at the \u201cAlte Oper\u201d, Grand Hall in Frankfurt am Main is now available as a video.<\/p>\n<p>The filmed recording of the concert on February 12, 2008 features the legendary line-up of soloists who had previously performed in Bert Kaempfert\u2019s Orchestra and has since become a valuable historical record: <!--more--> Ack van Rooyen (flugelhorn\/trumpet), Herb Geller (saxophone\/flute), Jiggs Whigham (trombone), Ladi Geisler (bass guitar), and Swedish singer Sylvia Vrethammar, who was personally chosen by Bert Kaempfert as a guest star for his live and television concerts in 1979.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OOnImQLMRRM&#038;t=15s\" target=\"_blank\">Strangers In The Night &#8211; <em>live<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Berlin Jazz Orchestra &amp; Special Guests Conducted by Jiggs Whigham As part of the concert series from 2006 and 2008, the recording from February 12, 2008 at the \u201cAlte Oper\u201d, Grand Hall in Frankfurt am Main is now available as a video. The filmed recording of the concert on February 12, 2008 features the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-en"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaempfert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaempfert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaempfert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaempfert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaempfert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12456"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/kaempfert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12478,"href":"https:\/\/kaempfert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12456\/revisions\/12478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaempfert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaempfert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaempfert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}