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Eric Hofbauer Quintet: Prehistoric Jazz – Volumes 1 & 2
by Alberto Bazzurro
L'emergente chitarrista bostoniano Eric Hofbauer, docente di strumento, composizione e storia del jazz all'Emerson College & University del Rhode Island, un palmares di collaborazioni che spazia da Han Bennink a John Tchicai, Garrison Fewell e Cecil McBee, Steve Swell e Matt Wilson, ha inciso nell'aprile 2014 questi due album, dedicati rispettivamente al Sacre du printemps di Igor Stravinskij e al Quatour pour la fin du temps di Olivier Massiaen, debitamente riarrangiati (da lui stesso, ovviamente) per quintetto jazz (il balletto ...
Continue ReadingEric Hofbauer: American Grace
by AAJ Italy Staff
Con questo lavoro si conclude la trilogia iniziata dal chitarrista Eric Hofbauer nel 2004 con American Vanity, e proseguita nel 2010 con American Fear. American Grace mantiene la stessa impostazione dei precedenti: una raccolta di composizioni originali e riletture di brani di varia estrazione inseriti nell'ottica di un discorso più ampio e generale che coinvolge vari aspetti della cultura americana contemporanea e i suoi valori attraverso un'interpretazione musicale chitarristica. Chi già conosce i primi due capitoli della trilogia non sarà ...
Continue ReadingEric Hofbauer: American Grace
by Mark Corroto
Origami or balloon animals, it is always interesting what a solo artist can do with his bare hands. Same for a gifted guitarist like Eric Hofbauer, whose American Grace completes a trilogy of solo recordings that began with American Vanity (Creative Nation, 2004), and was followed by American Fear! (Creative Nation, 2010). In these three outing, he has mined the nation's post- 9/11 psyche via pop tunes, jazz, blues, and instant composing.Although a jazz educator and graduate of ...
Continue ReadingTake Five With Eric Hofbauer
by AAJ Staff
Meet Eric Hofbauer: Known as “a crucial instigator in Boston's DIY avant-jazz scene" (Jon Garelick, Boston Phoenix), Eric Hofbauer has been one of the city's most active musicians and organizers for the past decade. When not documenting his own distinctive approach as a solo guitarist, or leading his working quartet, The Infrared Band, he is performing and recording with such ensembles as the Garrison Fewell/Eric Hofbauer Duo, BOLT (featuring Jorrit Dijkstra and Eric Rosenthal), Karayorgis/Hofbauer/William/Gray and Charlie Kohlhase's ...
Continue ReadingEric Hofbauer and The Infrared Band: Level
by Nic Jones
Back in 2008 this band--the only change here being bassist Sean Farias in for Michael Montgomery--produced one of the best albums of that year. In 2011, they've gone and done it again. Like Thelonious Monk, Herbie Nichols and Andrew Hill, guitarist Eric Hofbauer's music benefits enormously from having the right musicians to bring it to fruition, and in this instance he's blessed. His quartet effortlessly avoids all the well-established tropes; on “La Ligne De Chance," it brings ...
Continue ReadingEric Hofbauer: American Fear
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il secondo disco solo del chitarrista americano Eric Hofbauer continua il percorso già intrapreso sei anni prima nel precedente American Vanity: una raccolta di brani, tra originali e cover, attraverso i quali esplorare i grandi temi della cultura americana che danno il titolo ai dischi (anche se il collegamento logico non sempre è evidente), che diventa per Hofbauer l'occasione di una rivisitazione autobiografica delle proprie influenze musicali. Troviamo così accanto ai brani da lui composti per l'occasione sia titoli jazz ...
Continue ReadingEric Hofbauer: Eric Hofbauer: American Fear!
by Tom Greenland
With American Fear!, creative guitarist Eric Hofbauer once again exposes his funny bone, effectively demonstrating that jazz and humor are not mutually exclusive. Like American Vanity (Creative Nation, 2002), this is a solo guitar effort mixing unusual covers with quirky originals, all delivered with the Boston-based artist's extroverted minimalism. There are no disposable notes in this suite of vignettes, each track a meditation on the various ramifications of fear, whether from childhood ("Monsters Under the Bed"), adolescent ...
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