Results for "Hendrik Meurkens"

Hendrik Meurkens

Born: August 6, 1957

Hendrik Meurkens, a virtuoso on both the chromatic harmonica and the vibraphone, is the most important jazz harmonica player since Toots Thielemans. German-born but now based in New York, Meurkens' recordings and performances garner worldwide acclaim because the transcendent beauty of his music has universal appeal. A two-mallet player in the tradition of Milt Jackson and Bobby Hutcherson, Hendrik Meurkens was en-route to being an instantly recognizable vibraphonist when he heard Toots Thielemans. Inspired by the sound of Thielemans' harmonica, he taught himself the difficult-to-master instrument. Hendrik Meurkens' other life-changing musical experience was his introduction to samba and bossa nova

Come Fly with Me

By Judy Whitmore

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: It’s Nice to Go Trav’ling; Come Fly with Me; On an Evening in Roma; A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square; There’s a Small Hotel; I Thought About You; Moonlight in Vermont; April in Paris; Georgia on My Mind; Autumn in New York; Beyond the Sea; Around the World.

The Jazz Meurkengers

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2024
Track listing: A Slow One; Belgian Beer At Dawn; A Lullaby For Benny; Silver's Serenade; Meurks' Mood; Dreamsville; If I Were A Bell; A Tear For Toots; Smada.

Dayna Stephens, Monty Alexander, Tom Collier & Daniel Bennett

by Joe Dimino
April 14, 2024

From a brilliant New York City talent, we begin the 850th Episode of Neon Jazz with multi-instrumentalist Daniel Bennett and a get a cut off his 2024 album Mr. Bennet's Mind. From there, we move on to a collection of great new songs from Monty Alexander, KJ Denhert, Tom Collier & Hendrik Meurkens. In between, we ...

An Embarrassment of Riches From Hamburg: Recent Releases From Nagel-Heyer

by C. Michael Bailey
February 22, 2024

This article was first published at All About Jazz in February 2001. While Nagel-Heyer Records is breaking ground with contemporary jazz releases with their Nagel-Heyer 2000 Series, showcasing music by Terell Stafford, Wycliffe Gordon, Byron Stripling, and many others, the Hamburg-centered label's catalog continues to populate itself with the fine traditional jazz recitals that ...

Judy Whitmore: Come Fly with Me

by Jack Bowers
February 6, 2024

When the multi-talented Judy Whitmore sings “Come Fly with Me," it is an invitation that is almost impossible to resist, especially as the lovely and charming vocalist is also a pilot who is licensed to fly anything from jets to seaplanes to hot air balloons. On her latest album, backed by a big band and twenty-six ...

Holiday Releases From Kait Dunton, Judith Owen, Staci Griesbach, Liz Kennedy, Caity Gyorgy, Lizzie Thomas and Laila Biali

by Mary Foster Conklin
January 1, 2024

This broadcast celebrates Christmas Eve with women driven holiday releases from Kait Dunton, Judith Owen, Staci Griesbach, Liz Kennedy, Caity Gyorgy, Lizzie Thomas and Laila Biali plus birthday shoutouts to Sue Maskaleris, among others. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by purchasing their music so they can continue to comfort, distract, provoke ...

Caribbean Blue

By Russ Spiegel

Label: RuzzTone Music
Released: 2023
Track listing: The Underdown Groove; E.22nd St; Caribbean Blue; Island Song; Slippery Slope; Inquietude; Retribution Blues; The Streets of Milan; Smooth Move; Coda.

Roundabout

By Dominik Schürmann

Label: Self-produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: 1. A Slow One (Hendrik Meurkens) 5:47 2. Maybe May (Christian Gutfleisch) 5:17 3. The End Of A Bug Affair (Dominik Schürmann) 4:47 4. Miriam's Bâle-Ade (Christian Gutfleisch) 6:12 5. Meurks' Mood (Hendrik Meurkens) 5:04 6. Ramba Samba (Dominik Schürmann) 4:46 7. A Better World (Elmar Frey) 6:32 8. Roundabout (Chrsitian Gutfleisch) 5:40 9. Cinecittà (Elmar Frey) 6:12 10. Prague In March (Hendrik Meurkens) 5:27 11. Heureka (Dominik Schürmann) 4:21 12. Vilnius (Elmar Frey) 7:00

Russ Spiegel: Caribbean Blue

by Jack Bowers
December 19, 2023

Pleasant music with ample color and variety--that's an apt description of Caribbean Blue, the latest albulm from California-bred, Florida-based guitarist Russ Spiegel, who has surrounded himself with world-class musicians and given them rein to canvass ten of his generally engaging compositions and bring them admirably to life. While everything on offer is respectable, ...