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Chase Kuesel
Based in Brooklyn, NY, Chase’s ensembles and musical affiliations have taken him across the world. In the past decade, he has performed in Austria, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greece, Jordan, Netherlands, Switzerland, and across the United States. Through these travels he has performed at venues and festivals such as Bimhuis, Carnegie Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Laguna Beach Festival of Arts, the Tabuleiro Jazz Festival, and the Vienna Jazz Festival.
Still in his mid-20s, Chase has already received considerable recognition from prominent cultural institutions. In 2020, he was recognized by both the ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Awards, for his song “Senescence," and the John Lennon Songwriting Contest, for his song "Falling." Both compositions are featured on his Ears & Eyes release. In 2018, he was one of seven students selected from an international applicant pool to participate in Focusyear, an artist diploma program based in Basel, Switzerland. Through this program he performed with Ambrose Akinmusire, Billy Childs, Julian Lage, and Norma Winstone. In 2016, he was awarded the TD Canada Trust Fellowship in Jazz to study at the Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music. He has been in residence four times at Avaloch Farm Music Institute in Boscawen, New Hampshire.
In addition to his own music, Chase is actively involved in many projects as a sideman. He has shared the stage with Noah Preminger, Jason Palmer, George Garzone, Billy Buss, Julian Shore, and other renowned musicians. In November 2019, he travelled to Switzerland to record with Alex Hamburger’s quartet, and will tour with the group on a release tour in Fall 2020. He is also one-fourth of the collective Echoes, an electronica-influenced band described as the “Sound of Jazz in the ‘Right Now,’” who released their second album, “Loading Screen,” in August 2019.
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Alex Hamburger: And She Spoke
by Jerome Wilson
The debut album from flautist Alex Hamburger is a strong addition to the growing number of jazz albums drawing inspiration from the work and lives of prominent female artists. She plays here the compositions of several women composers, Geri Allen, Mary Lou Williams andJoni Mitchell, and sets her own music to the words of authors Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou and her grandmother, Paraguayan poet and activist Ana Maria R. Codas. The music on the album is in a ...
read moreChase Kuesel: Space Between
by Bruce Lindsay
Drummer and composer Chase Kuesel is based in Brooklyn, but his debut release as leader, Space Between, arose from a year spent studying in Basel as part of a select group of young musicians funded through the Focusyear Artist Grant. It's an album that's notable for Kuesel's ambitious compositions--drawing on influences including Olivier Messiaen, Norma Winstone and Guillermo Klein, to whom Kuesel dedicates Axis (For GK)"--and for the stylish interpretations crafted by the drummer and his bandmates. Four ...
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