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Philipp van Endert
Since his return from the USA, Philipp van Endert has matured into an individual and distinctive voice in the current jazz scene. He has played numerous tours, made recordings in America and Europe and has accepted the invitations of many international festivals - among them the well-known Montreux Jazz Festival, The Hague Jazz, Jazz Sur Son Toulouse, Ankara Jazzfestival and Leverkusener Jazztage. His guitar playing, which is energetic whilst also being lyrical, is documented on more than 40 CD releases and has brought him together with jazz greats including Mike Stern, Danny Gottlieb, Lajos Dudas, Jarek Smietana, Karl Berger, Gerd Dudek, Kenny Wheeler, Adrian Mears and Rick Margitza.
Nomination for the German Record Award 2006 in the jazz category with the production Philipp van Endert Trio – KHILEBOR (JazzSick Records), winner of the Steven D. Holland Memorial Scholarship, the Berklee Guitar Department Achievement Award and of the Cultural Promotion Prize of the North Rhine-Westphalian state capital Duesseldorf (1996).
Since 2009, Philipp van Endert has been assistant professor for jazz and electric guitar at the Institute For Music And Media at the University of Music Duesseldorf and since 2014 at the IFM Conservatory of Osnabrueck.
Since 2001 he has also been the manager of the record label JazzSick Records, a label with over 80 CD releases so far in the national and international market.
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Lajos Dudas: Radio Days Vol. 2
by Mark Sullivan
The previous compilation Radio Days: The Music Of Lajos Dudas (JazzSick Records, 2016) was released to celebrate German-Hungarian jazz clarinetist/composer Lajos Dudas' 75th birthday. It collected performances dating from 1984 to the early 2000s: about twenty years. The new volume's coverage is both wider and deeper. The dates range from 1976 to 2017over forty yearsand the total time is about the length of three CDs. It comes on a special memory card, an unusual format well-suited to what Dudas describes ...
read moreLajos Dudas: The Lake and the Music
by Mark Sullivan
The Hungarian-born, German-resident clarinetist Lajos Dudas has a lengthy discography, and his long career was celebrated by the Vimeo video Ein Künstlerportrait. He has played classical music, and jazz from bebop to free. But, for what he says is his final album, he has chosen to play fresh interpretations of jazz standards and songs from the Great American Songbook. He is joined by his longtime accompanist, guitarist Philipp Van Endert on all of the tracks (along with drummer Kurt Billker ...
read moreLajos Dudas: The Lake and the Music
by C. Michael Bailey
At 80-years old, clarinetist Lajos Dudas is dropping off the keys to the recording studio while making his way outDudas claims this is his last recording and, if true, he ends things on a high note at the intersection of The Great American Songbook and free jazz. Dudas' previous recording, Return to the Future (Jazzsick Records, 2018) was a jogging approach to this present, and last, The Lake and the Music, where Dudas uses 10 tried-and-true standards as his jumping ...
read morePhilipp van Endert Trio: Rosebud
by Douglas Payne
Cinema has long since rendered the word rosebud" as something elusive and enigmatic, that cannot possibly sum up what others want it to. From the moment that Orson Welles whispers the word in the 1941 film Citizen Kane, a mysterious journey of the purely unknowable is embarked upon. But what a journey. With Rosebud, the remarkably inspired German guitarist Philipp van Endert properly gives light to the inability of properly discussing creative music. Much in the same way ...
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Sound Insights by Doug Payne
Cinema has long since rendered the word rosebud" as something elusive and enigmatic that cannot possibly sum up what others want it to. From the moment that Orson Welles whispers the word in the film Citizen Kane, we embark on a mysterious journey of the purely unknowable. But what a journey. Titling his latest recording Rosebud, the remarkably inspired German guitarist Philipp van Endert properly gives light to the inability of properly discussing creative music. Much in the same way ...
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