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Peter Herbert

Huw Warren: Choro Choro Choro

by Chris May
July 13, 2024

The Welsh pianist Huw Warren is not a household name--though he ought to be--so a little background to Choro Choro Choro is appropriate, just in case the album is taken to have effervesced out of nowhere. In the 1990s, Warren was co-leader of the singular London quartet Perfect Houseplants. The group's half-dozen albums ...

Vilnius Mama Jazz Festival 2023

by John Sharpe
June 8, 2023

Vilnius Mama Jazz Festival State Youth Theater Vilnius, Lithuania May 25-28, 2023 Introduction Now the largest city in the Baltic States, the Lithuanian capital Vilnius once again hosted the Mama Jazz Festival for its 23rd edition. While booking acts which might please a wide range of music lovers, the Festival ...

Jazz Takes on Joni Mitchell

By David Lahm

Label: Arkadia Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Solid Love; Song for Sharon; Edith and the Kingpin; Coyote; Blue Motel Room; The Blonde in the Bleachers and the Vamp from Hell; The Fiddle and the Drum; Solid Love (alternate version); Shadows and Light.

Fruits Of Solitude

By Franz Koglmann

Label: Ezz-thetics
Released: 2020
Track listing: Fruits of Solitude II; Martians Don't Go Home Anymore; For Max; Untitled; Garden with Blue Terrace; Salut Solal; Fruits of Solitude I; Finger Snapper; Leopard Lady; Fruits of Solitude III; Yellow Tango.

Ed Neumeister: Suite Ellington

by Dan McClenaghan
November 28, 2016

Trombonist Ed Neumeister opened his excellent quartet outing, New Standards (Meistero Music, 2005) with an energized take Duke Ellington's signature tune, “Take The 'A' Train." It was apparent that he had a way with Duke's music. A quick dip into Neumeister's resume finds that he played in Duke Ellington's Orchestra for sixteen years, post-Duke, when the ...

Ed Neumeister: Suite Ellington

by Karl Ackermann
June 26, 2016

A complete summary of trombonist Ed Neumeister's musical career would date back to his pre-school years. Initially a regular fixture on the San Francisco circuit, he later immersed himself in the New York jazz scene dividing almost thirty-five years between the Duke Ellington Orchestra and the Mel Lewis Big Band. His additional experiences with classical orchestras ...

Jazzfestival Saalfelden 2014

by Vincenzo Roggero
September 15, 2014

Saalfelden 28-31.08.2014 A bocce ferme il 35° Jazzfestival di Saalfelden presentava un programma meno appariscente rispetto a precedenti edizioni, con meno densità di nomi altisonanti e meno eventi imperdibili. Ma forse proprio per la mancanza di aspettative clamorose, grazie alla solida direzione artistica tra certezze e curiosità e per quelle alchimie speciali che regolano ...

Franz Koglmann: Join!

by Eyal Hareuveni
August 16, 2014

Austrian, Vienna-based composer Franz Koglmann always used music as a means to present his ideas, often provocative perspectives, on cultural phenomena at large. He alienated the American jazz community with A White Line (hatART, 1990), where he sketched an alternative history of jazz based on white innovative musicians. Later he reconstructed the compositional ideas of Johan ...

Nuances

By Peter Herbert

Label:
Released: 2012
Track listing: 1. Country Boy; 2. Steinzveit; 3. Sweetest Child; 4. Traces; 5. Plage d'Arone; 6. Samba for Joe; 7. Nuances; 8. Mountain Air; 9. Leaving Hometown; 10. Esbjorn. Tutti i brani sono di Hubert Dorigatti.