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Hendrik Meurkens CD Release "Sambatropolis" Wed, Jan. 30th at Kitano2 Sets - 8:00PM & 10:00 PM
HENDRIK MEURKENS CELEBRATES THE RELEASE OF HIS NEW ZOHO CD “SAMBATROPOLIS" WED, JAN. 30TH At Kitano 66 Park Avenue (at 38th St.) New York, NY 212-885-7119 NO COVER $$15 MIN./SET 2 SETS - 8:00PM & 10:00PM Rodrigo Ursaia: tenor sax (tracks 1, ...
Hendrik Meurkens: New York Jazz Samba Quintet
by Jerry D'Souza
Hendrik Meurkens was smitten enough by Brazilian music to move to Rio from Germany in the early eighties. He calls this a life-changing musical experience which led him to study the music in depth. A residency at the Bar 21 in Rio helped put theory into practice. He moved to New York from his native Germany, ...
Hendrik Meurkens: New York Samba Jazz Quintet
by Jim Santella
The soulful feeling that Hendrik Meurkens puts into his jazz harmonica always brings warmth and sunshine into the room. Here, he's at home with a quintet at Cecil's Jazz Club in West Orange, New Jersey, just having a good time and keeping the fires burning all night long. His embers burn from several directions: from Brazilian ...
Hendrik Meurkens: New York Samba Jazz Quintet
by J Hunter
What would you call an NBA-sized German guy who plays harmonica and vibes, and is an unqualified expert in the history, composition, and performance of samba, choro, and bossa nova? Well, “Mister Meurkens seems a little too New York Times, though Hendrik Meurkens certainly deserves that level of respect. More of said respect should follow on ...
Amazon River
Label: Blue Toucan Music
Released: 2005
Track listing: Mountain Drive; Amazon River; Menina Na Janela (The Girl In The Window); Passarim; Ela E Carioca; Lingua De Mosquito (Mosquito Tongue); O Cantador; Meu Canario Vizinho Azul; The Peach; Sem Voce; Piano Na Mangueira.
Hendrik Meurkens: Amazon River
by Jim Santella
With a session of originals and established Brazilian songs, Hendrik Meurkens pays homage to the music that moves him. His guests play a large part in helping the harmonica virtuoso create a recommended album that accurately describes those feelings. He soars high and low, swooping effortlessly around melodic fragments that belie the rustic impression of a ...
Hendrik Meurkens: Amazon River
by Bret Primack
I've been listening to Hendrik Meurkens' Amazon River for about a year and I believe it's one of the great Brazilian Jazz recordings of this, or any era. I'm also happy to report that Hendrik Meurkens and Amazon River is one the best bands I've heard in a long, long time.It all started for ...
Hendrik Meurkens: Amazon River
by Chris May
When the great wordsmith in the sky invented the word “gorgeous" She might have been thinking of this album, a celebration of all that is lovely about Brazilian music, from samba and choro through bossa nova and jazz. On the face of it, Hendrik Meurkens is not the most likely outsider to have gotten ...
