Jazz Articles about Wolfgang Schlüter

Wolfgang Schlüter Quartet & NDR Bigband: Visionen

by Dan Bilawsky
March 16, 2013

Visionen may be the best big band recording that went largely unheard in 2012. The music itself was hiding in plain sight, available for purchase from the usual on-line mega-stores (i.e. Amazon.com) and download sights (i.e. iTunes), but the record received scant attention in jazz circles, and the majority of the attention it did receive came from sources fairly close to home for this Hamburg-based project. Wolfgang Schlüter--Germany's elder statesman of the vibraphone--and his highly interactive band, ...