I am very excited
about adding two new European artists to my project rooster. Via these
international relations I will service artists with a more spectacular
network and business opportunities.
Yes, it’s jazz. Vibrant,
modern, expressive and elegant jazz music. Full of music, instrumentalism,
young stars and more than just up and coming.
I will be
representing these artists for booking enquiries exclusively for Scandinavia
and press. Please do not hesitate in getting back to me, if you want to know more about these or other exciting European jazz artists:
Samuel Blaser (exclusive
booking Scandinavia + press)
Vein (exclusive booking Scandinavia + press)
Swiss trombone player
Samuel Blaser has gained international recognition with his releases feat. some of my own personal favourites from the international jazzstage; such as Paul Motian (dr),
Thomas Morgan (bas), Marc Ducret (gui), Gerald Cleaver (dr) just to drop af
few.
His latest release and current live
project Consort in
Motion has been
rated 4 stars and 1/2 in Downbeat Magazine and selected as “ A best of
2011” by Downbeat, New York City Jazz Record, Philadelphia Paper and Tokyo
Jazz.
Live the project will feat. Russ
Lossing (piano), Drew Gress (bass) and Gerry Hemingway (drums) will be ready to book soon for tour gigs in
2013.
On
Consort in Motion, his latest release, Blaser leads a trio with in-demand
bassist Thomas Morgan and legendary drummer Paul Motian, again confirming that
he is an artist abounding with daring ideas and concepts. Taking the unusual
step if melding Renaissance and Baroque period music with jazz improvisation,
Blaser creates on Consort in Motion a new musical world, at once oddly familiar
and yet also startlingly compelling.
Get into the world and
sound of Samuel Blaser via his
Vein, a trio full of
poetry, melody and jazz. From Basel in the heart of Europe. Vein is Transforming
the classics and their own material has strength, passion and love for the
music. And what an interplay they have; pianist Michael Arbenz, drummer Florian
Arbenz and bassist Thomas Lähns. Check
Out their latest translation of ”Porgy & Bess” and you will enjoy
Gershwin again.
“Vein, a
piano trio with a difference. These guys can play together (like on “Funky
Monkey”) at a new level of straight-eight interaction... They don’t really
sound like anybody, but do proceed (way) out of the Evans-Bley tradition.
Anybody who wants something truly new in the piano trio format would do well to
hear this one.” - Grego Edwards, Cadence, NYC,
2.2010
“ In the jazz club, a concert
took place that was of a almost divine class of its own. Greg Osby made his
appearance with the Swiss piano trio Vein. … After everything that the
47-year-old alto saxophone stylist has passed through during his career he
seems to be congenially cradled like never before with the two Arbenz brothers
and the bass player Thomas Lähns. … Vein challenges and supports Osby in a
sublime manner. The pianist Michael Arbenz must be seen as hidden world star.
He plays in a league with Brad Mehldau and Jacky Terrasson, technically
virtuously and precisely, fissuredly wide-rangingly, filled with crazy ideas
that emerge between knotted hacked chords and tingly silver-reels, harmonious,
cumbersome or mellifluous – an intimate dance with the spirits of Lennie
Tristano and Thelonious Monk and one’s very own mind…”
- Ulrich Olshausen, Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung, 3.2008
