Jazz Articles about Daniel Schenker

Mathias Kielholz-Sunny Strings: Opening

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 24, 2006

Mathias Kielholz è un chitarrista svizzero che non soffre le divisioni di genere. Anzi, a ben guardare, utilizza il panorama degli stili musicali come una perfetta tavolozza di colori in cui intingire la sua creatività. Dopo un paio di esperienze fatte con gruppi locali ethno-folk (Echo) o in band free jazz (Kieloor Entartet o i Bermuda Viereck di Martin Schlumpf) l’artista ha voluto focalizzare il suo composito background ideando questo suo debutto bipartisan. Ecco perché non ha timore di citare ...

Daniel Schenker Quartet: Soundlines

by Jack Bowers
May 3, 2006

Swiss-born trumpeter Daniel Schenker and his quartet, who earned high marks from this reviewer for an earlier album, Iridium (Brambus, 2003), are back for another go around, this time with guest saxophonist Chris Cheek from New York City making it a quintet. The performance, taped live in October '04 at Zurich's Moods nightclub, is as admirable as before, the choice of music somewhat less so.

Schenker wrote six of the eight numbers (there's one holdover from Iridium, the ballad “Jedesmal ...

The Daniel Schenker Quartet: Iridium

by Jack Bowers
September 25, 2003

More inspired jazz from overseas. It's musicians like Daniel Schenker and albums like Iridium that make this country's so-called jazz polls so patently ludicrous. Technically and creatively, Schenker is on a par with many of the trumpeters whose names regularly appear at or near the top surveys conducted by critics or laymen and published in our leading jazz magazines. The downside is that Schenker and his companions make their home in Switzerland, which is somewhat removed from New York City ...