Jazz Articles about Peter A. Schmid

About Peter A. Schmid

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Peter A. Schmid: Chicago Conversations

Read "Chicago Conversations" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
March 11, 2016

Ventiquattro brani per lo più molto brevi compongono questo sfiziosissimo nuovo lavoro del cinquantaseienne polistrumentista zurighese Peter A. Schmid, che è andato a inciderlo (in un unico giorno, il 31 agosto 2014) allo Strobe Recording di Chicago, dividendosi fra duetti (quindici), una sua specialità (fra i suoi numerosi partner nel corso degli anni ricordiamo almeno Evan Parker, Ned Rothenberg e Vinny Golia), e trii (nove, consecutivi). La preferenza, come spesso accade nella musica di Schmid, va di ...

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Peter A. Schmid / Ned Rothenberg / Matthis Ziegler: El Ni

by Henry Smith
November 19, 2007

According to Meinrad Buholzer's liner notes, El Niño is, in weather terms, a habitual pattern of intermingling air currents and water temperatures that affects the Pacific Ocean and west coast of Latin America. This serves as a most suitable title for the music of the album, which represents a highly communicative and spontaneous meeting between three virtuoso wind instrumentalists: reedist Peter A. Schmid, flutist and fellow Swiss resident Matthias Ziegler, and New York-based woodwind multi-instrumentalist Ned Rothenberg.

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Peter A. Schmid & Vinny Golia: Birdology

Read "Birdology" reviewed by Rex Butters

by Rex Butters
June 8, 2004

Just in time for spring, Leo Records releases Birdology, a collection of duets played by reed regent Vinny Golia with Swiss gastroenterology specialist and fellow horn collector Peter A. Schmid. Their common interest in Benedict Eppelsheim’s tubax, a newly redesigned contrabass sax, impelled their initial contact. Then the synchronicities began falling into place. Like Golia, Schmid experiments with new ways of fusing composition and free improvisation. He shares the fascination for extreme instruments, as well as the allure of birdsong. ...

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Evan Parker: September Winds

Read "September Winds" reviewed by Richton Guy Thomas

by Richton Guy Thomas
January 17, 2003

Evan Parker is among Europe's most innovative and intriguing saxophonists. Parker's solos and playing style are distinguished by his creative use of circular breathing and false fingering. He's one of the few players not only willing but anxious to demonstrate his affinity for late-period of John Coltrane. September Winds was recorded in an empty water reservoir on the Zürichberg (which is located in Zurich, Switzerland)...built in 1922 and standing empty for nearly thirty years. The acoustics are ...

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Anliker-Parker-Schmid-Senn-Solothurnmann: September Winds

Read "September Winds" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles
November 1, 2001

In 1999, a series of concerts took place in an abandoned underground drinking water cistern near Zurich, build in 1922. Performances from that series were released on Vollmond on Creative Works Records. A second series of concerts was planned for September 2000, but fire regulations stopped them taking place. Instead, a series of recording sessions took place in the cistern, over three days. This record and its companion piece September Duos are the result. [ Winds has trombone plus four ...