Results for "Hans Luchs"

Hammerspace

By Andrew Vogt

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: Hammerspace; Butterbritches; Visualizing.

Hans Luchs

Hans Luchs is a guitarist, composer, and bandleader living in New York City. Hans has performed in a wide array of settings, from small jazz clubs to large outdoor festivals and concert halls. Hans originally got his start playing around his native Chicago, performing at The Auditorium Theatre, The Chicago Jazz Festival, The Green Mill, and The Jazz Showcase to name a few. Since moving to New York, Hans has played at Smalls, Ornithology, Cafe Ornithology, The Django, Minton's Playhouse, The Bitter End, and many other venues around New York City. Hans has also played internationally in Sweden, England, Scotland, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Mexico, Canada, and Turkey.

Until Next Time

By Hans Luchs

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2018
Track listing: Lucid; Anitha; Winter Is Here; Conversaciones Con Andrea; That's Not Love; Leaving For Belfast.

Kitt Lyles: Real Talk

by Edward Blanco
May 23, 2016

An active performer and educator in the Chicago jazz community, young bassist Kitt Lyles is a graduate of Northwestern University with a degree in Jazz Studies and has performed in venues throughout North America, Latin America and Asia. A sideman on various other recordings, Lyles introduces his debut recording as leader on Real Talk presenting eight ...

Kitt Lyles: Real Talk

by Mark Sullivan
May 20, 2016

For his debut recording bassist/composer Kitt Lyles draws on his love for the jazz tradition, as well as southern folk and blues. A South Carolina native now residing in Chicago, he leads a working sextet (with one additional player on two tracks) through a varied program of originals. The title tune is built on a vamp, ...

Hans Luchs: Time Never Pauses

by Budd Kopman
April 10, 2016

While it does not scream downtown, avant-garde, uber originality, guitarist Hans Luchs debut recording, Time Never Pauses, is far from a vanilla, “jazz as style" offering, and, in fact has much going for it. For one thing, his band, consisting of drummer George Fludas, bassist Clark Sommers, pianist Stu Mindeman and Shaun Johnson on ...

Kitt Lyles: Real Talk

by Jack Bowers
January 25, 2016

Real Talk is the debut album for young South Carolina-bred bassist Kitt Lyles who earned a degree in Jazz Studies from Northwestern University in 2013. As all the compositions are Lyles,' its success rests as much on his skills as a writer as his serving as a beacon for the sextet's able rhythm section. How does ...

Time Never Pauses

By Hans Luchs

Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Der Lumenmeister; Elizabeth; Green DeLuchs; Come Sunday; Tuesday Night Delivery; January Spring; Hello Janssen; Taylor Street Swing; Get Out of Town; 30 Rue des Martyrs.

Hans Luchs: Time Never Pauses

by C. Michael Bailey
October 1, 2015

Chicago-based guitarist Hans Luchs draws more from the recent than far past. More John Abercrombie and John Scofield than Wes Montgomery or Grant Green. His debut recording Time Never Pauses is a collection of eight original compositions and two transformed standards reveals the continued refining of modern jazz composition well past the head-solo section-head style of ...

Hans Luchs: Time Never Pauses

by Jack Bowers
September 23, 2015

Not much can be said about Hans Luchs aside from the fact that he lives in Chicago, looks to be fairly young and plays an intense, assertive and agile guitar on Time Never Pauses, which, incidentally, is Luchs' recorded debut as leader of his own group. Luchs is also a writer who composed eight of the ...