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Lukas Hein

I'm a world citizen trying to improve my art and bring a little bit more beauty into the world. I feel fortunate to have discovered this incredible music and encountered some of its finest practitioners, and am happy to have the chance to keep playin the horn.

Some of the players I've been lucky enough to know, play with and learn from include Marvin "Doc" Holladay (currently residing in Ecuador!), Larry Miller from Nanaimo, British Columbia, and Robert Crowell, Warren Rand, Renato Caranto and Mel Brown from Portland, Oregon. Shao Way Wu, a wonderful bass player and from Arcata, California has also helped me immensely.Studying with Tom Bergeron at Western Oregon University was a real treat! And of course, the members of Dialeto Brasileiro have had a huge impact on my musical life; if you don't know these players, look them up: Cassio Vianna, Wagner Trindade and Claudio Felix.

I studied music as an undergraduate at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, gigged around Humboldt County for a few years, and earned a master's degree from Western Oregon University in 2011. I'm currently living in Saint Lucia, working at the Saint Lucia school of Music and staying involved in the local jazz scene.

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Album Review

Lukas Hein: Lukas Hein & Dialeto Brasileiro

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In the early 1960s, bright new rhythms traveled northward from Brazil, kindling a “bossa nova craze" that swept through the jazz world and spilled over into the realm of pop music, led by saxophonists such as Stan Getz, Bud Shank and Zoot Sims, and abetted by guitarists Charlie Byrd, Laurindo Almeida and others. After scoring a hit in 1962 with an adaptation of Antonio Carlos Jobim's “One Note Samba," Getz had a million-seller the following year, again thanks to Jobim, ...

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Take Five With Lukas Hein

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Meet Lukas Hein:I was born in 1981, and have lived around the world due to my family being part of the Baha'i Faith. I graduated from Lewis & Clark College in 2003, and have been living and playing in Northern California since.

Instrument(s):Tenor saxophone.

I knew I wanted to be a musician when...I realized there was no other way to achieve my musical goals than to have music ...

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Lukas Hein: A Tasteful Album of Lyrical Brazilian Jazz

Lukas Hein: A Tasteful Album of Lyrical Brazilian Jazz

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Lukas Hein Discusses his latest release with Dialeto Brasileiro; The genesis of this recording is a wonderful story. While I have always loved straight-ahead jazz, with the sounds of swing and bebop comprising the bulk of my listening as a young musician, over the past few years I have felt increasingly, irresistibly drawn to the most significant Brazilian contribution to jazz: Bossa Nova. What started as a gentle nudge—the feeling of ease and happiness while performing a Jobim tune ...

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New Release by Lukas Hein - "At First Glance"

New Release by Lukas Hein - "At First Glance"

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Well, this isn't really from the press but here you go:

"What I just heard was excellent and what a lovely and unique sound that can be identified as being Lukas Hein. What a refreshing example of what this music is about really."

-Marvin "Doc" Holladay

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