Jazz Articles about Die Hochstapler

About Die Hochstapler

Multiple Reviews

Formed in 2011, the French-Italian-German quartet Die Hochstapler (The Impostors) has comprised the same four players ever since, with the instrumentation of a classic jazz quartet--saxophone, trumpet, bass and drums. Prior to the pair of recordings below, they had released three albums on Umlaut, The Braxtornette Project (2013), The Music of Alvin P. Buckley (2015), and The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog (2018). Away from Die Hochstapler, all four members have impressive track records; saxophonist ...

Album Review

Die Hochstapler: Plays The Music Of Alvin P. Buckley

Read "Plays The Music Of Alvin P. Buckley" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
May 16, 2016

Back in high school, my physics instructor explained to us how there is a mathematical equation for everything in the universe. We started with the parabola equation of a baseball's flight after being struck by a bat. We were amazed to learn that one (not I) could also calculate the various waves on a lake. A classmate went on to start a successful computer generated imagery company in Hollywood, but that's another story. This is the story of another mathematician, ...