Eugen Cicero - Erbarme Dich, mein Gott (vinyl)

Eugen Cicero (27 June 1940, Cluj, Romania – 5 December 1997, Zürich, Switzerland), nicknamed “Mister Golden Hands“, was a Romanian-German jazz pianist who performed in the mixed classical-swing style. Biography Born in Cluj, Romania, Cicero was of Romanian-Hungarian descent. He started playing piano at age four and was trained by the leading Romanian teachers. At age six he performed a Mozart piano concert with the symphony orchestra of Cluj. Despite graduating from the National Conservatory in Bucharest, he abandoned a career as a conventional concert pianist and established his style between classical and jazz piano, introducing swing harmonies into baroque, classical and romantic compositions, often as spontaneous improvisations. In 1962, while touring East Berlin, Cicero fled to West Berlin. He spent the next two years in Switzerland, where he joined the “Kindli“ orchestra of Joe Schmid. After returning to Germany, Cicero produced over 70 recordings, some of them