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Pascal Niggenkemper

New York City-based German-French bassist, composer and improviser Pascal Niggenkemper is a performing and recording artist active on the creative music scene in the US and in Europe. From 1999-2005 he was musically active in Cologne having studied jazz & classical double bass at the Hochschule für Musik. In 2005 he received the DAAD award and moved to New York. From 2008 to 2010 Pascal led the PNTrio with Tyshawn Sorey and Robin Verheyen. (CD "pasàpas" Konnex 2008 & “urban creatures” JazzHausMusik 2010). The trio toured extensively in Europe performing at the Jazzcologne Festival, Jazzherbst Konstanz and at the Kennedy Center in Washington

D'une rive à l'autre

By Pascal Niggenkemper

Label: Subran Music
Released: 2026
Track listing: Seai Se Mea; Faka Paku; O Mamai; Microwomen; From Island To Island; Lingilingi; Manu Eva; Mataliki; Te Ataeaoi Nei In; Anga; Fakamatamata; Manuia te moana; Tai fanake; Fuligafou; Tala Kai A Fatu; Ke to mai te sau mai te langi; Sasale.

Franklin Kiermyer, Pascal Niggenkemper & Lao Dan

by Maurice Hogue
August 31, 2026

Follow the bouncing geographic ball in this episode as it lands on disparate places in the jazz universe, starting with ferocious yet spiritual drummer Franklin Kiermyer and his startling new release Scatter The Atoms That Remain. Kiermyer has long been associated with the spiritualism of the Coltranes, Pharoah Sanders, etc. and he's been spending much time ...

Pascal Niggenkemper: D'une rive à l'autre

by Don Ball
August 14, 2026

Tuvalu is a tiny Western Pacific island nation with a rich cultural life, but it may not be around much longer. From the consequences of climate change, scientists expect that Turvalu will be uninhabitable in a few decades, taken back by the rising ocean. And that's why bassist/composer Pascal Niggenkemper wants you to know about it ...

Joe Morris, Barry Guy/Roberto Ottaviano & Bill Connors

by Maurice Hogue
July 27, 2026

Bassist/guitarist Joe Morris was recently honored at the annual Vision Festival for his lifetime contributions, and if anyone has any doubts about that, just listen to his new album Counter Spectacle out on the FSR label. With reed players Rob Brown & Anna Webber & drummer Matthew Rousseau, Morris lets freedom reign. This is a true ...

Rempis / Adasiewicz / Corsano: Dial Up

by Mark Corroto
December 15, 2025

Chicago has long been a magnet for creative musicians. Louis Armstrong left New Orleans for the Windy City in 1922, and Sun Ra arrived in 1945 to begin reshaping its musical landscape. Fast-forward to the 1990s, and Chicago welcomed saxophonist Dave Rempis, who quickly became a central force in the city's improvised-music scene. After emerging in ...

From Wolves to Whales: Strandwal

by Giuseppe Segala
May 4, 2020

Il quartetto From Wolves to Whales, nome azzeccato per un significativo incontro di quattro personalità al vertice del jazz e dell'improvvisazione contemporanea, si era già proposto nel 2015 con il CD omonimo, dopo il rodaggio di tre concerti a Manhattan e a Brooklyn nel febbraio del 2014. Il sodalizio, imperniato sulla lunga frequentazione di Nate Wooley ...

Harris Eisenstadt Canada Day: Quartet Live

by Stefano Merighi
February 17, 2020

Il talento percussivo ma ancor più compositivo di Harris Eisenstadt viene confermato da questa incisione dal vivo, che la formazione modulare Canada Day—qui ridotta a quartetto—ha realizzato ad Avignone nel marzo 2018 durante un fortunato tour europeo. Anche se Eisenstadt ha approfondito tradizioni percussive sia africane che centroamericane, la sua musica non sfrutta ...

Quartet Live

By Harris Eisenstadt

Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Poschiavo 35; Poschiavo Four-Voice 3; Poschiavo Four-Voice 1; Poschiavo 36; Poschiavo Four-Voice 4; Poschiavo 8; Poschiavo Four-Voice 2; Poschiavo 9.

Strandwal

By Nate Wooley

Label: Aerophonic Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: CD 1:
Hook and Cod; IJ.
CD 2:
Spaarne; For Kenau.