Results for "Hubert Nuss"

Hubert Nuss

2013 Enjoy Jazz Festival

by John Kelman
November 24, 2013

Enjoy Jazz 2013 Heidelberg/Mannheim/Ludwigshafen, Germany November 6-14, 2013 It's always a treat to return to Heidelberg for Enjoy Jazz. As a very intended contrast to most jazz festivals, that compress a lot of music into a very short time, Enjoy Jazz's founding premise, when it was first conceived 15 years ago by ...

Nova Jazz Orchestra / Christian McBride Big Band / NYJO

by Jack Bowers
March 5, 2012

Nova Contemporary Jazz OrchestraWho Sez You Can't Dance to Bebop?Nova Jazz2010 When last heard from, Minnesota's dauntless Nova Jazz Orchestra was performing alongside the legendary Stan Kenton Orchestra--well, not actually “alongside," but as part of the Tantara label's ongoing two-disc salute to Kenton, Double Feature, Vol. 2. ...

The Book Of Colours

By Hubert Nuss

Label: Pirouet Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: The Three Doomed Men; The Colours of Tyrus Wong ; Galaxy NGC 300; Night Stars; The Pictures of Charles Blanc-Gatti; Alia; Mirror Universe; For Jamey; The Dark Diamond of Donezk; Another Kind of Paris; Coloured Cathedral Daylight; Barry and Ollie; The Art of Dominique Louis; The Water of Life; The Amethyst; Bloomed.

Hubert Nuss: The Book of Colours

by C. Michael Bailey
October 17, 2010

Ambitious projects like Hubert Nuss' The Book of Colours are not unheard of. Here, the German pianist endeavors to explore multiple modes based on a color wheel. Russian synesthete and composer Alexander Scriabin was profoundly moved by the smell and feel of color in his composing, attempting a synthesis of the five senses in his unfinished ...

Hubert Nuss: The Book of Colours

by Dan McClenaghan
October 11, 2010

Music is a treat for the ears, for the sense of hearing. But are the borders separating the senses permeable? Can Red Garland's piano notes be said to “sparkle?" Can Paul Desmond's alto saxophone have the sound of a dry martini? Are these metaphors, perhaps, based to some extent on realities along a continuum of sensory ...

Feed The Birds

By Hubert Nuss

Label: Pirouet Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: A Virtual Dream of the Nearest Thing to Heaven; With a Smile and a Song; What's New; The Light of Kida-Laris; Feed the Birds; Good Bye Sir Peter; R&R; You are My Lucky Star

Hubert Nuss: Feed the Birds

by John Kelman
June 30, 2005

Already in his forties and an in-demand player in his native Germany with the NDR and WDR Radio Big Bands, among others, pianist Hubert Nuss is something of an unknown entity elsewhere, certainly to North American audiences. And that's a shame, because based on the strength of Feed the Birds, his first release for the relatively ...