Jazz Articles about Hans Tammen

Jason Kao Hwang: Myths of Origin

by Jerome Wilson
August 20, 2025

Violinist and composer Jason Kao Hwang has worked with groups of every size, from duos up to full orchestras. “Myths of Origin" is one of his large-scale pieces, an imposing 42-minute work for an improvising string orchestra and drum set. It runs without interruption, but the recording breaks it down into nine sections. The music starts slowly, rising in a mass of seething bowed strings with a slight trace of Asian melody. It progresses into a dense cloud ...

Dom Minasi: Eight Hands One Mind

by Hrayr Attarian
May 2, 2021

Restlessly innovative, guitarist Dom Minasi is a stalwart of the creative music scene. A brilliant improviser and composer, Minasi deftly utilizes his inventive ideas as launching points for his equally exciting extemporizations. On the unique Eight Hands One Mind, Minasi joins three other intrepid guitarists for a fiery and poignant tribute to another trailblazer, the late guitarist Bern Nix. The others in the group are the master of prepared guitar Hans Tammen, the virtuoso Harvey Valdes and the ...

Hans Tammen: Third Eye Orchestra

by Marc Medwin
December 12, 2009

This is a stunning live recording from one of improvised music's most fascinating proponents. Hans Tammen has gathered a dream team of 13 improvising musicians, but that's hardly the totality of this project, which combines composed material with extemporization to create a score whose modus operandi is constant change on every level. This is one of those discs that verbiage won't encapsulate. The music on offer here is not to be compartmentalized, though it exists in discrete ...

Hans Tammen Third Eye Orchestra: Hans Tammen Third Eye Orchestra

by Jakob Baekgaard
January 31, 2009

In jazz circles, New York is known for cultivating the sounds of the cutting edge; club Roulette has shown a particular seismographic ability to know what's happening at the fringes of jazz. If anything, the release of Hans Tammen Third Eye Orchestra underlines this with striking clarity.

An innovative avant-garde guitar guru, Hans Tammen is mostly known for his elusive technique of endangered guitar, but he's also the visionary behind the interesting contemporary avant-garde ensemble, The Third Eye Orchestra. Hans ...

Hans Tammen - Alfred 23 Harth - Chris Dahlgren - Jay Rosen: Expedition

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 13, 2007

Può la completa libertà d’espressione trasformarsi paradossalmente in un vincolo limitante? È possibile che l’estenuate ricerca della radicalità e dell’originalità nell’improvvisazione sia divenuta uno stereotipo? Che la destrutturazione del linguaggio musicale sia giunta ad un punto di non ritorno, o meglio, ad un punto di saturazione naturale? Forse non c’è soluzione univoca o verità assoluta che possa rispondere alle opinabili (molto opinabili) domande sopra esposte. Forse dipende dal musicista, dall’ascoltatore, dal contesto, dalle intenzioni, dal rigore espressivo e, soprattutto, dalla ...