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The Jazz Session #189: Eric Hofbauer
Eric Hofbauer is using the solo guitar to explore American identity on a trilogy of albums that began with American Vanity (Creative Nation Music, 2004) and continues with American Fear (Creative Nation Music, 2010). In this interview, Hofbauer talks about the pop tunes he covers on this record; how he uses improvisation to lead to composition; ...
Eric Hofbauer: Eric Hofbauer: American Fear!
by Tom Greenland
With American Fear!, creative guitarist Eric Hofbauer once again exposes his funny bone, effectively demonstrating that jazz and humor are not mutually exclusive. Like American Vanity (Creative Nation, 2002), this is a solo guitar effort mixing unusual covers with quirky originals, all delivered with the Boston-based artist's extroverted minimalism. There are no disposable ...
Eric Hofbauer: American Fear
by Nic Jones
Boston, Massachusetts is truly blessed in having Eric Hofbauer as a member of its improvised music community. Over the course of successive releases he has proved himself to be one of the great original voices and this solo guitar recital proves it in spades. He seemingly and effortlessly has forged a highly individual instrumental vocabulary and ...
Garrison Fewell: Variable Density Sound Orchestra
by Lyn Horton
For the descriptively-titled Variable Density Sound Orchestra, guitarist Garrison Fewell has assembled a group whose members expertly develop the thematic content central to the pieces on the album. All but one are composed by Fewell, the disc closing with Butch Morris' “Namthini's Shadow." Trumpeter Roy Campbell, Jr. plays with Fewell for the first time here, the ...
Charlie Kohlhase's Explorer's Club: Adventures
by Virginia A. Schaefer
Adventures is the high-energy first release of Explorer's Club, led by accomplished saxophonist and composer Charlie Kohlhase. The septet includes a guitarist, bassist, two drummers, two saxophonists, and trombonist. Kohlhase puts together their expertise to produce an impressive range of instrumental combinations, timbres, and textures in the outside-but-accessible style for which he's known. Kohlhase's compositions (all ...
Charlie Kohlhase's Explorer's Club: Adventures
by Jerry D'Souza
Charlie Kohlhase is an entertaining adventurer. In his role as a composer, he draws on several influences. His eye is on the final dimension and in pursuing that, he uses a wide range of styles. Taken individually the styles seem to be odd bedfellows, but when the course of their journey has been charted, they have ...
Creative Nation Music to Celebrate 5th Anniversary with Two-Day Festival March 28-29th
On Saturday, March 28th and Sunday, March 29th, Boston's Creative Nation Music will present the first Creative Nation Music Festival at the Cambridge Family YMCA Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The official local celebration of the label's fifth anniversary, and the culmination of its four-state package tour of New England, the festival will feature seven bands over ...
Creative Nation Music Showcase at Hartford's Real Art Ways
On Saturday, March 21st, Boston's Creative Nation Music will present two of its artists, the Garrison Fewell/Eric Hofbauer Duo and Eric Hofbauer & The Infrared Band, at Hartford's Real Art Ways. This event is part of the label's Creative Nation Music Showcase Tour, a package tour of four New England states featuring bands from its roster. ...
Guitarist Eric Hofbauer Featured in the Boston Herald
Hofbauer talks about about the Boston music scene, the Creative Nation Music label and his latest CD, Myth Understanding, in a recent article by the Boston Herald's Bob Young. Check out Hofbauer's group, Eric Hofbauer & The Infrared Band, performing three tracks from Myth Understanding on YouTube: Jac Mac Talkin' A Drunk Monk
American Vanity
Label: Creative Nation Music
Released: 2004
Track listing: The Fad; Coke (for Our Addicts); Gnossienne #1; Mandrake; American Eulogy; Better Get Hit In Your Soul; Ba-Dee Image; Greensleeves In Vermont; Ode To Little Drummer Joy; $...(Part 1); Old Man River (For Our Lost Ones); New Coke (Part 1); Driftin' On A Reed (For Our Dreamers); American Innocence; $...(Part 2); Dukes Of Hazzard; Take On Me; Femme Fatale; New Coke (Part 2); Display Window Strut
