Ed Gerhard

Ed Gerhard: House of Guitars

by C. Michael Bailey
October 6, 2003

Every guitarist remembers their first guitar. Often it was one of those piece-of-shit Harmonies, Silvertones, Oahues...pawnshop guitars originally sold by Sears in the sixties. The action was as high as the Washington Monument, causing hand cramps making chords in the open position. An instrumentalist’s purgatory, you think? No, these are precisely the instruments über -guitarist Ed Gerhard sought out to record is latest masterpiece, House of Guitars.

Originally form Philadelphia, Ed Gerhard began playing guitar after seeing maestro Andrés Segovia ...

'Flugelhorn & Strings - Jazz Meets Classic' By Gerhard Daum Now Available

Source: Gerhard Daum
February 7, 2025

Gerhard Daum's new instrumental album Flugelhorn & Strings will be released on February 7, 2025 on streaming platforms. The award-winning composer and multi-instrumentalist Gerhard Daum impressively combines jazzy flugelhorn sounds with classical string arrangements, creating a unique atmospheric sound world. A sound that touches The flugelhorn, known for its warm, velvety sound, is at the center of the album. It not only takes the melodic lead, but also inspires with its improvisational passages, which merge with contrapuntal string orchestrations. The ...
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Jazz Meets Classic And Cinema on Gerhard Daum's 'Jazz Ballads'

Source: Gerhard Daum
March 14, 2024

Jazz Ballads is the fourth album by Gerhard Daum that I’ve reviewed since 2017, and each album has been a surprise—from solo piano to guitar to ensemble and now to trumpet. Daum’s trumpet is the lead instrument on all of the tracks along with an ensemble that includes piano, flugelhorn, guitars and MIDI bass—all played by Daum—and drums/percussion performed by Adam Nussbaum. Daum composed and arranged all fourteen tracks and the album was recorded in Cologne and Berlin, Germany. Daum ...
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Trumpet & Guitars - Elegant And Fantastic Album Release By Gerhard Daum on Tonework Records

Source: Gerhard Daum
August 29, 2023

Contemporary Jazz is a fascinating collection of seventeen original pieces by German composer and musician Gerhard Daum. A very successful composer of soundtrack music for films and television in both the US and Europe, Daum's music is expressive and often very visual. On this album, Daum performs on trumpet, flugelhorn, and acoustic and electric guitars (not all at the same time!), and is accompanied by prominent Macedonian double-bassist, Martin Gjakonovski, who lives and works in Cologne (Germany). Most of the ...
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Gerhard Stabler's Modern String Orchestra Work "Zeichen"

Source: Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
May 13, 2011

Post 509. Who's counting really? I did neglect to note post 500, though. So we mark the progression at this juncture. The blogs do in part document my personal odyssey through the world of “serious" music today and I have come out of it thus far with a profound respect and appreciation for those artists and their institutional supporters and abettors who trudge onward in spite of all obstacles. This time we live in may not be ideal for the ...
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