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Hans Luchs

Hans Luchs is a guitarist living in New York City after relocating in the fall of 2017 from his hometown of Chicago. Hans has performed in a wide array of settings, from small jazz clubs to large outdoor festivals. Hans regularly plays at venues across the country, and has also played internationally in Europe, Canada, and Latin America.

Hans has performed and toured with an array of artists in American music including 8-time Grammy winner Pepe Aguilar, Motown legend Martha Reeves, and many jazz musicians in Chicago, New York, and beyond. As a recording artist, Hans has recorded in various formats as a sideman and leader, including projects produced by NPR and Apple Music.

Hans is also active as a music educator. Currently, he is teaching guitar, ensembles, ukulele, and music production at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music.


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Hans Luchs: Time Never Pauses

Read "Time Never Pauses" reviewed by Budd Kopman


While it does not scream downtown, avant-garde, uber originality, guitarist Hans Luchs debut recording, Time Never Pauses, is far from a vanilla, “jazz as style" offering, and, in fact has much going for it. For one thing, his band, consisting of drummer George Fludas, bassist Clark Sommers, pianist Stu Mindeman and Shaun Johnson on trumpet is extremely tight, precise and, in many spots, smoking. Luchs does not dominate the session, and is part of the rhythm section for ...

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Hans Luchs: Time Never Pauses

Read "Time Never Pauses" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Chicago-based guitarist Hans Luchs draws more from the recent than far past. More John Abercrombie and John Scofield than Wes Montgomery or Grant Green. His debut recording Time Never Pauses is a collection of eight original compositions and two transformed standards reveals the continued refining of modern jazz composition well past the head-solo section-head style of hard bop and the liquid freedom of post bop into pure composition. “Der Lumenmeister," the album opener is labyrinthian in both ...

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Hans Luchs: Time Never Pauses

Read "Time Never Pauses" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Not much can be said about Hans Luchs aside from the fact that he lives in Chicago, looks to be fairly young and plays an intense, assertive and agile guitar on Time Never Pauses, which, incidentally, is Luchs' recorded debut as leader of his own group. Luchs is also a writer who composed eight of the album's ten selections (the others are Duke Ellington's “Come Sunday" and Cole Porter's “Get Out of Town") and arranged all of them.

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