Jazz Articles about Karol Hodas

About Karol Hodas

Album Review

Finesse is trumpeter Jim Rotondi's ninth recording as a leader but his first using a full orchestra including strings. The band and string section are from Austria, where Rotondi presently lives, performs, and teaches, and each one is quite good. As for Rotondi, besides playing superb trumpet--open or muted--he wrote and arranged everything on the album save for two brief “introductory" pieces by Jakob Helling. As if that many instruments weren't enough, Rotondi invited two friends, saxophonist ...

Album Review

Swantje Lampert: Now!

by Chris May
March 3, 2021

The Austrian tenor saxophonist Swantje Lampert caught the jazz bug relatively late, while studying for a degree in law. She took up the saxophone and, some twenty years later, after graduating from the Vienna Conservatoire and the Berklee School of Music, has matured into an assured player and a characterful composer. Lampert is an experienced sideperson on the Austrian scene, but Now! appears to be the first album released under her own name. It is a collection ...

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