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Wes Montgomery: The NDR Hamburg Studio Recordings

Read "The NDR Hamburg Studio Recordings" reviewed by Chris May


Recorded in spring 1965, during Wes Montgomery's sole European tour, The NDR Hamburg Studio Recordings presents the guitarist as part of an all-star international octet assembled for a one-off appearance on German television station NDR. The programme was part of a series presenting musicians who did not regularly work together in informal “rehearsal" performances. Montgomery's tour, on which he appeared with both his own quartet and local rhythm sections, has been well documented on official and unofficial recordings. But this ...

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Hans Koller with Bill Frisell: Cry, want

Read "Cry, want" reviewed by John Eyles


No, there is no need to re-read the heading or check the personnel list; guitarist Bill Frisell is included as a member of this Hans Koller twelve-piece ensemble. So, too, is Psi proprietor Evan Parker, making this the first recording featuring Parker and Frisell together--quite an occasion, eh? In addition, alongside German-raised, London-based Koller on electric piano, the ensemble features a wealth of fine British players. Of the eight tracks, six are Koller originals, joined by Charlie Parker's ...

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Hans Koller: London Ear

Read "London Ear" reviewed by Chris May


This may or may not be the last album Steve Lacy participated in before his death--it is certainly amongst the last, recorded as it was in December '03, only a few months before he died--but in any event it has another timely significance. In a month when the octogenerian US bandleader Gerald Wilson, fast becoming a national treasure after decades of neglect, has been a featured artist in the London Jazz Festival, the release of London Ear brings the good ...

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Hans Koller: Wild Roses

Read "Wild Roses" reviewed by Chris May


Composer/orchestrator/pianist Hans Koller's most groundbreaking achievements to date have been his big band projects, which have picked up and carried forward in the UK the playful and quirky iconoclasm of the late, marvellous Loose Tubes. Mentored early on by veteran experimentalist Michael Gibbs, and building too on Gil Evans' textural inventions, Koller's big bands--which feature emergent young stylists alongside major names like Stan Sulzmann, Julian Siegel, Henry Lowther, and Evan Parker--are in the tradition but always pushing and tickling the ...

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Award / Grant

Hans Koller European Jazz Price 2009

Hans Koller European Jazz Price 2009

Source: Isabella Schrammel - Isilistening

We are glad to announce the winners of the various categories of the Hans Hans Koller Preis 2009, an initiative of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture, the City of Vienna, the SKE-Fonds and the Austrian Music Office (AMO).

European Jazz Prize 2009

EUR 14.500.-- sponsored by the City of Vienna

Enrico Rava (Italy), trumpet

Adieu Tristesse and Bonjour Trieste!,at least for the time being, because the moment has come to honor a very special musical ...

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Award / Grant

European Jazz Prize & Hans Koller Prize 2005

European Jazz Prize & Hans Koller Prize 2005

Source: All About Jazz

Hans Koller Prize 2005 / European Jazz Prize 2005:    Bojan Z  (Bosnia), piano ( EUR 14.500.-    sponsored by the City of Vienna & BA-CA)

 

It is fitting that pianist Bojan Zulfikarpasic, a Paris resident but born and raised in the former Yugoslavia, is this year’s winner of the European Jazz Prize. His playing exemplifies both the strength of the European jazz scene and its wonderful  diversity. As a performer, he is never less than absorbing and ...

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Obituary

Hans Koller, 1921-2003

Hans Koller, 1921-2003

Source: All About Jazz


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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

The NDR Hamburg...

Jazzline Classics
2021

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Wild Roses

Unknown label
2005

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London Ear

Unknown label
2005

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MPS Reworks Vol. 02

Intakt Records
2004

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