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Contemporary Jazz

By Gerhard Daum

Label: ToneWork Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Apricity; Best Pals; Mind Your Steps; Sky Gazer; Lonesome Stranger; Coiled Energy; High And Low; Whirl Of Pleasure; Badlands; Quality Time; Central Station; Mirror Moon; G Blues; Western Sunset; Cinema Novo; Funky Beast; Don Juan.

Erlend Albertsen Basspace

Active since: 2020

Erlend Albertsen Basspace

What science have discovered until now, is that the prerequisites for life seems to be a rarity, a non-comformist in the general activity of matter and whatnots in the universe. If you compress the history of the universe into 365 days, Earth would be born in the beginning of September, the human race at 1145pm on December the 31st, and a human life of 80 years would correspond to 1/3 of a second. How do you use that time? 

Doublebassist and composer Erlend Olderskog Albertsen has summoned a handful of dear colleagues from the Norwegian jazz scene for an expedition towards new musical habitats. The crew consists of personalities that are associated with names such as ECM, Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, Espen Berg, Stian Carstensen, Jaga Jazzist, Marthe Lea, Wako and Miman.

Gili Lopes

Born: April 1, 1983

Born in 1983 in Porto Alegre, Gili was introduced to music through the sounds of Brazilian folklore. At the age of 14 he started learning the bass as a self taught musician and soon after started playing with local bands around his state. In his early 20’s he moved to London where he started studying the upright bass. He attended the prestigious Guildhall School of Music and Drama where he obtained a bachelor degree in jazz studies and worked extensively as a freelance musician in the United Kingdom for a decade after that. In 2013 he was invited to expand his studies in music at the Jazz Institute in Berlin where he obtained a Masters degree in composition and arrangement by the University of Fine Arts of Berlin (UDK)Gili Lopes has since performed in more than 35 countries around the world including Qatar, Canada, Bulgaria, Chile, Portugal, Jordan, South Korea and Turkey in venues such as Ronnie Scotts, Queen Elizabeth Hall, SummerStage in Central Park, Nice Jazz Festival, London Jazz Festival, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami, Seoul Jazz Festival, Frederic Chopin Philharmonic, Jazz is Dead in Los Angeles among many others.

Andy Rothstein

Blend the energy of rock with the complexity of jazz and the dynamics of blues and you just might end up with a unique style. New Jersey based guitarist Andy Rothstein’s unique musical voice can be attributed partly to his diverse musical influences, and party to the various electronic modifications that he has developed for guitars. 

Andy first began playing guitar at age 14. He graduated from Rutgers University, majoring in music and computer science, and he studied privately with Kevin Eubanks, Ted Dunbar, Steve Khan and Vinnie Zummo.

Andy has released three highly acclaimed recordings as a leader. His most recent release Truth Against the World (2022) spent over a year on the Roots Music Report Jazz charts, finishing #1 in the Top Fusion Album Chart for 2022. 

Nate Yingling

Born: August 15, 2001

Nate Yingling is an upcoming pianist, bassist and composer located in Cleveland, Ohio. Now debuting himself for the first time as a bandleader, His sound fuses various modalities of Black American music including Jazz, Contemporary, Neo soul, R&B and Funk. 

Nate was drawn to the piano from a young age when he wanted to be like his grandmother who played hymns in church services. His mother enrolled him in piano lessons from a young age and from there he took a great liking to the instrument. His music taste was later informed by his father who he shared an affinity for collecting vinyl records with, showed him a great variety of music ranging from Led Zeppelin live at MSG to Kind of blue by Miles Davis. 

Giuseppe Costa

Giuseppe Costa ha iniziato lo studio del pianoforte a 18 anni e l’attività concertistica appena laureato in pianoforte. Oggi è un artista riconosciuto dagli editori di Spotify ed è presente nelle loro celebri playlist seguite da tantissimi fan, per cui la sua musica è ascoltata negli Stati Uniti, Germania, Regno Unito, Australia, Giappone e conta sul profilo personale migliaia di ascoltatori mensili.

La sua ricerca musicale inizia nel 2009 quando pubblica con la casa editrice SGB di Messina “Curioso” (brano dodecafonico per fagotto solo) e “Tre brani per pianoforte solo” (brani scritti con un approccio sperimentale per lo sviluppo cognitivo del pianista). Per quest’ultimo lavoro, nel 2014, BookCity Milano lo seleziona per un concerto conferenza al teatro Dal Verme. Questi brani fanno parte del progetto “Studi”.

Alon Nechushtan

Born: September 23

Alon Nechushtan’s music adventures has brought him to various far corners of the globe such as the Yokohama ‘Rejoicing Sounds’ Festival in Japan with his contemporary orchestral compositions, The Manila Cultural Center of the Arts, with his Clarinet Concerto for the Philippines Philharmonic Orchestra, The Sao-Paolo Brazil Jewish Music Festival with his groove based Quintet Talat, Toronto and Montreal with his words beyond Jazz Trio and Tel Aviv New Music Biannale with his Compositions for Large Ensemble.

Allison Au

Allison Au (pronounced "ow") is JUNO award winning saxophonist, composer and arranger. Highly regarded for her distinctive and imaginative voice, Allison has been lauded as “a new jazz ambassador” for Canada.

Born to a Chinese father and Jewish mother, and raised in the multicultural metropolis of Toronto, Allison fell in love with music as a young child. Her father’s eclectic collection of vinyls and CDs exposed her to a wide array of musical styles. Struggling to find a sense of belonging in her biracial identity, the unhinged freedom of improvisation captivated Allison and quickly became her lab for self-expression and exploration. 

Pasquale Calò

Born in Barletta on June 19th 1987, he started the study of the saxophone from the young age of 12, in the “N.Piccinni Conservatory” of Bari, in the classical saxophone class of the teacher Ausonio Calò.

He studied in various workshop and master on improvisation, including "International Festival of the Saxophone City of Faenza" 2003 and 2004 and In.Ja.m (International Jazz Master, 2009-2011) at the Siena Jazz Fondation, where he had the opportunity to study with great personalities of international jazz as George Garzone, Achille Succi, Ralph Alessi, Enrico Rava, Gianluca Petrella, Michael Blake, Jeff Ballard, Billy Hart, Tim Berne, Anders Jormin, Nguyen Lee, Steve Turrè, Gianluigi Trovesi, Marc Ducret, Bruno Tommaso, etc.

Trumpet & Guitars - Elegant And Fantastic Album Release By Gerhard Daum on Tonework Records

August 29, 2023

Contemporary Jazz is a fascinating collection of seventeen original pieces by German composer and musician Gerhard Daum. A very successful composer of soundtrack music for films and television in both the US and Europe, Daum's music is expressive and often very visual. On this album, Daum performs on trumpet, flugelhorn, and acoustic and electric guitars (not ...