“Sweet und Swing” is an important vocal album under many aspects. Singer Wolfgang Sauer has been heard largely in the fields of “Schlager Pop” that first propelled him to stardom in Germany during the 1950s. Nevertheless jazz music was his passion and rumours started among fans and collectors about an immediately retired jazz album from 1959. Recently one of the few existing copies was traced and became the “master record” for this 1:1 reissue. On the long-lost LP Wolfgang Sauer devotes his vocal talents to singing some of the greatest songs from the Great American songbook. Unfortunately the production has been realized in a year, when music fans were interested in the arrival of US-soldier Elvis Presley in the German town of Bad Nauheim instead of checking out swing records from Germany. Simply another story of an important album released at the very wrong time. Wolfgang Sauer deserved some of the very best musicians from Germany, and here he had it: The songs were recorded with the orchestras of German music legends Paul Kuhn and Friedel Berlipp (aka Berry Lipman) in Cologne. Sauer is shown in a new light here, as a superbly gifted jazz vocalist with an unmatched feeling for the sheer beauty of ballads and a unique ability to transmit his feelings vividly through his voice. Thanks to the very unique arrangements of Kuhn and Berlipp, the fine treatments of songs include “jazz ballads with strings” aswell as danceable tunes in the style of “Count Basie meets Joe Williams”.