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Lars Scherzberg

Lars lives in Berlin, where he works with different musicians improvising and playing new music. He has studied classical and new music, playing classical guitar, at the Hamburg Conservatory and the Hochschule für Künste, Bremen. It was this academic experience that led him to abandon the guitar in favor of the alto saxophone, leading him to approach sound purely rather then the too often stiff, technical world of modern composition. He was impacted by contact with bassist Torsten Müller, who introduced him to possibilities of freely improvising. Lars has played since in festivals and concerts all over Germany and Europe

Lars Scherzberg: Top Floor Encounter

by John Chacona
May 29, 2022

The first phase of jazz was characterized by melodic improvisation. In its second phase improvisers dealt with harmony and, in the current phase, density is the improviser's concern. So says Anthony Braxton—if I understand him correctly (if anyone does). If so, then Top Floor Encounter may be as characteristic of our time as Armstrong's “Weatherbird" was ...

Top Floor Encounter

By Lars Scherzberg

Label: Oaksmus
Released: 2002
Track listing: 1.Magnetic Resonance 2.The Perch 3.Montagne de plaisanterie no.1 4.Montagne de plaisanterie no.2 5.Pulse Deviations 6.Union 7.Check 8.Plus 9.Quickie

Lars Scherzberg-John Hughes-Jeff Arnal: Top Floor Encounter

by Glenn Astarita
January 1, 2002

German composer, Dietrich Eichmann’s “Oaksmus” label is rooted within free jazz, avant-garde classical and electronics-based formats. Here, Americans, Jeff Arnal (percussion) and John Hughes (bass) align their wares with German alto saxophonist, Lars Scherzberg for a program consisting of nine free-style opuses that often spur notions of the British free jazz movement.A graduate of ...