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Peter Welker: Duke, Billy and Tadd
by Jack Bowers
Trumpeter Peter Welker's labor of love, a warmhearted tribute to three of the jazz world's most renowned composer/pianists--Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn and Tadd Dameron--awakened memories of a similar enterprise from some years ago, the late Tom Talbert's 1956 record Bix, Duke, Fats. Like Talbert, Welker uses a pared-down “big band whose numbers range from ten to twelve (with a quartet and digitized “string section on the last number), and like Talbert, his spare, upbeat arrangements lend the session an intimate ...
read morePeter Welker: Paradise Is Awfully Nice
by Jack Bowers
Trumpeter / arranger Peter Welker has dedicated this album to his mother, Elisabeth, a remarkable woman who, in spite of having been born blind, became a band singer who performed on the coast--to--coast radio program Camel Caravan in the '30s, later taught at the Berklee School of Music and developed a Braille course that changed completely the way Jazz was taught to blind musicians, making it more focused and accessible. All of the musicians on Paradise Is Awfully Nice are ...
read morePeter Welker And Friends: Paradise Is Awfully Nice
by Dave Nathan
New York native but San Francisco immigrant, trumpeter {$Peter Welker} is not exactly a household name. Although lacking deserved recognition, he has compiled an impressive resume as a sideman working with performers cutting across a wide swath of styles including Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, Bob Dylan and Bread and Roses. On his second excursion as a leader, he shares billing with his “friends" who make up the band on this session. And what a set of friends! There's Herb Pomeroy ...
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