Jazz Articles about Arthur Hnatek

About Arthur Hnatek

Interview

Arthur Hnatek: On putting the EDM into Jazz & making acoustic music with electronic appeal

by Friedrich Kunzmann
April 2, 2021

Miles Davis and like-minded free-spirited vanguards of his day opened jazz up to countless influences during one of the genre's heydays in the late '60s and early '70s. Ever since, the boundaries of jazz have been broken down more radically, disseminated and increasingly blended with everything from current trends in popular music to classical music and more experimental contemporary currents, including electronic music. But despite the seeming boundlessness of mixing genres and creating new sub-categories of genres, EDM (electronic dance ...

Album Review

Tigran Hamasyan: The Call Within

Read "The Call Within" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki
October 28, 2020

Tigran Hamasyan had already demonstrated that he's an excellent pianist: He won the Montreux Jazz Festival's piano competition in 2003. He was only seventeen when he released his first recording (World Passion, Nocturn) in 2005 and then he claimed top prize the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition the year after that. Hamasyan's Nonesuch Records debut Mockroot (2015), won the Echo Jazz Award for International Piano Instrumentalist of the Year. But The Call Within also illustrates Hamasyan's remarkable ...