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Peter Bolte

Critics refer to Peter Bolte as "one of the most distinguished alto saxophonists of the younger generation" and praise his "highly individual alto sound" and "unique improvisation". At age 16, he took first prize in the competition "Jugend jazzt". In 1990, he won first prize in the saxophone contest at the "Hochschule für Musik Köln". In 1991, the international Karlovy Vary Jazz Festival granted him its "Best Soloist Award". Peter was a guest lecturer at the "Hogeschool voor de Kunsten", Arnhem, Netherlands in 1993 and at the "Hochschule für Musik und Theater", Hamburg, Germany in 2003. One of his compositions appears in "The European Real Book" published by Sher Music. Peter played with groups led by Bob Degen, Harald Haerter, Daniel Humair, Paul Heller or Henning Berg and appeared with McCoy Tyner, Gary Burton, Steve Swallow, Randy Brecker, Tim Hagans, Paquito D´Rivera, Joachim Kühn, Albert Mangelsdorff and others as a soloist with the NDR-Big Band. There are twelve CDs under Peter´s name. Musicians featured on these records include Bob Degen, Achim Kaufmann, David Friedman, Paul Imm, Anthony Cox, Daniel Humair and Alan Jones. By 2019 Bolte had appeared on 82 CDs, according to Tom Lord´s "The Jazz Discography".

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A Conversation

Label: Waiting Moon Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Conversation - Parts 1-5

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Article: Album Review

Tim Hagans-NDR Big Band: A Conversation

Read "A Conversation" reviewed by Jack Bowers


A Conversation, by trumpeter Tim Hagans and Germany's superlative NDR Big Band, is really five conversations- -that is, a five-movement concerto composed, arranged and conducted by Hagans who also solos on Movements III, IV and V. Hagans and the band are more than strangers in the night--he has collaborated with NDR for two decades as guest ...

Album

Sanctuary

Label: Ramboy
Released: 2020

Album

Refugium

Label: Ergin Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: 1.Glenister 2:32 2.1609 3:56 3.Hachen 5:45 4.L751 3:23 5.Mackeloh 2 5:12 6.Nuku 4:10 7.Raft 6:46 8.Later 5:02 9.Scheit 9:14 10.Grain 3:56

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2016

Label: Ergin Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: 1. Intro 1:05 2. Mural 7:30 3. Lichtblicke 10:38 4. Underscore 2:39 5. Aruca 5:35 6. Watershed 4:39 7. Modus Operandi 2:34 8. 47 4:11 9. Kiesel 1:30 10. Lichtblicke (Reprise) 2:47

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94/14

Label: Ergin Records
Released: 2015

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Big Band tedesche in gran spolvero

Read "Big Band tedesche in gran spolvero" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Da almeno trent'anni in Germania operano alcune delle migliori orchestre mainstream d'Europa, ormai famose per le collaborazioni coi massimi jazzisti contemporanei. Tra i vari collettivi, la NDR Big Band di Amburgo e la WDR Big Band di Colonia si collocano oggi ai vertici internazionali, sapendo coniugare alta professionalità tecnica a doti di flessibilità, fantasia e apertura ...

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Article: Album Review

Joe Sample & the NDR Big Band Orchestra: Children of the Sun

Read "Children of the Sun" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Toward the end of his remarkable career, the late pianist Joe Sample (he died on September 12, 2014) traveled to Hamburg, Germany, to record Children of the Sun, a suite of his own music, with the splendid NDR Big Band. The eleven compositions were inspired by Sample's appearance at the 1995 St. Croix Jazz Festival, where ...

Album

Planet

Label: merfadéz music (NRW)
Released: 2013


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