Tobias Hoffmann

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Martin Iaies, featuring Klaus Gesing: People, Places

Read "People, Places" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
September 27, 2026

As though being a spendid jazz guitarist, composer and arranger were not enough, Argentina-born, Austria-based bass guitarist Martin Iaies was savvy enough to invite renowned woodwind artist Klaus Gesing to sit in on three numbers on Iaies' 2026 recording, People, Places. Iaies ushers an 11-member ensemble--not quite a big band, but fairly close--through its paces on eight of his engaging and lyrical compositions, neatly tailored to suit a group of that size and makeup. Gesing plays alto sax ...

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Max Andrzejewski's Hütte: Hütte & Guests Play the Music of Robert Wyatt

Read "Hütte & Guests Play the Music of Robert Wyatt" reviewed by Jerome Wilson

by Jerome Wilson
March 9, 2020

Robert Wyatt is a unique figure in modern music. He came out of Canterbury, England's music scene in the 60s, gaining his first notoriety as drummer and singer with the jazz-inclined rock band, The Soft Machine. In the 70's he briefly led a more experimental jazz-rock outfit, Matching Mole, and then moved on to a solo career before falling out of a window in 1973, an accident which has left him confined to a wheelchair ever since. His drumming days ...