Tom Van Der Geld

Lajos Dudas: Radio Days Vol. 2

by Mark Sullivan
July 26, 2022

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 2017—over forty years—and 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 ...

Tom Van Der Geld and Children at Play: Patience (ECM 1113)

Source: Between Sound and Space - An ECM Records Resource
March 16, 2011

Tom van der Geld and Children at Play Patience

Tom van der Geld vibraharp, percussion Roger Jannotta soprano and baritone saxophones, flutes, oboe, bass clarinet Kent Carter bass Billy Elgart drums, percussion Recorded May 1977 at Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg Engineer: Martin Wieland Produced by Manfred Eicher

As yet to provide choice “vibes" for Kenny Wheeler's around 6, in addition to his elusive but well-worth-owning Path, mallet ...
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Tom Van Der Geld "Path"

Source: Sound Insights by Doug Payne
January 6, 2011

Although not billed as such, this album is the third of what has become known as American ex-pat vibraphonist Tom van der Geld's four “Children at Play" recordings, captured between 1973 and 1980. Path was recorded in Ludwigsburg, Germany a year and a half after van der Geld's previous Patience, during February 1979, with a trio consisting of the leader on vibraphone, Roger Janotta (returning from the earlier record) on flute, soprano sax and oboe and the surprising addition of ...
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Tom Van Der Geld and Children at Play "Patience"

Source: Sound Insights by Doug Payne
January 5, 2011

Patience is the second of four of Tom van der Geld's “Children at Play" albums recorded between 1973 and 1980. The group's first record, Children at Play (issued 1975), and the last, Out Patients (1980), were issued by the West German JAPO ("Jazz by Post") label that has something to do with ECM Records (several of the JAPO titles have been reissued by ECM). Patience, the group's second record, and Path, the group's third recording, were issued by ECM. Each ...
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