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Die Hochstapler

Since 2011, the French-Italian-German quartet “Die Hochstapler” (The Impostors) has developed a highly personal style based on collective composition, radical individualism and oral communication. Their music is developed collectively in extensive rehearsal periods, the repertoire growing and renewing itself constantly. Poetry, alphabets and game structures serve as a basis for the common memory basket from which the four players are drawing in every performance in a new and unpredictable way.

Die Hochstapler is:

Louis Laurain
trumpet

Pierre Borel
saxophone

Antonio Borghini
double bass

Hannes Lingens
drums

 


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Two from Die Hochstapler

Read "Two from Die Hochstapler" reviewed by John Eyles


Formed in 2011, the French-Italian-German quartet Die Hochstapler (The Impostors) has comprised the same four players ever since, with the instrumentation of a classic jazz quartet--saxophone, trumpet, bass and drums. Prior to the pair of recordings below, they had released three albums on Umlaut, The Braxtornette Project (2013), The Music of Alvin P. Buckley (2015), and The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog (2018). Away from Die Hochstapler, all four members have impressive track records; saxophonist ...

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Die Hochstapler: Plays The Music Of Alvin P. Buckley

Read "Plays The Music Of Alvin P. Buckley" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Back in high school, my physics instructor explained to us how there is a mathematical equation for everything in the universe. We started with the parabola equation of a baseball's flight after being struck by a bat. We were amazed to learn that one (not I) could also calculate the various waves on a lake. A classmate went on to start a successful computer generated imagery company in Hollywood, but that's another story. This is the story of another mathematician, ...

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