Steffi Denk - Accentuate The Positive (2018)

On this musical journey to the Jazz, Swing and Bossa Nova roots of this formation, you'll be greeted by well-known classics from the American songbook's upbeat arrangements of contemporary hits such as "Livin'On A Prayer" by Jon Bon Jovi, "Black Hole Sun" by Chris Cornell and Meghan Trainor's "All About That Bass". Of course, ballads must not be missing. Steffi Denk interprets Gregory Porter's "Water Under Bridges", Joe Sample's "When Your Life Was Low" and Cole Porter's "I've Got Under My Skin" (here as Bossa Nova) heartbreaking! Another musical surprise is the bonus track "For You, For Me, For Evermore", which was recorded live in August 2017 at the Palazzo Festival in the Thon-Dittmer-Palais in Regensburg. In the style of jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald, Steffi Denk interpreted this George Gershwin classic extremely sensitively. She and her Flexible Friends were accompanied by jazz guitar, string pad and the "Flexible Friends" string quartet.