Jazz Articles about Florian Menzel

About Florian Menzel

Album Review

Tobias Hoffmann Jazz Orchestra: Innuendo

by Jack Bowers
December 24, 2024

Although German-born maestro Tobias Hoffmann can readily lay claim to a pair of music-inspired hats, he wears only one of them--that of composer and arranger--on the Tobias Hoffmann Jazz Orchestra's second recording, Innuendo, while placing the other (that of eloquent tenor saxophonist) in the capable hands of the ensemble's dynamic duo, Robert Unterkofler and Martin Harms. That proves to be a wise decision, as Harms shines brightly on “Sanctuary" and Unterkofler does the same on the closing “Perseverance."

Album Review

Reinhold Schmolzer & Orchestraconteur: Miraculous Loss of Signal

Read "Miraculous Loss of Signal" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza

by Jerry D'Souza
December 15, 2012

Reinhold Schmölzer is a vivid impressionist, a trait he makes evident as a composer, arranger and drummer on his debut, Miraculous Loss of Signal. He is as eloquent in his writing as he is in his arrangements, letting his Orchestraconteur express itself in all its majesty while opening the door for soloists, who go out on trails that are free, yet stay within the compass of the tunes which can weave in and out of idiomatic patterns. The result is ...