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Peter Thomas: Moonflowers & Mini Skirts
by Douglas Payne
Peter Thomas (b. 1925) is a German film and television composer who's known for his scores to Chariot of the Gods?, the 1965-68 series of Jerry Cotton films (German James Bond knock-offs, now available on a 2-CD set from Crippled Dick), 18 Edgar Wallace horror films and German TV hits like Raumpatroille (or Space Patrol, a German Star Trek series with a soundtrack out now on Caroline).The German maestro has now retired on his forward-seeking laurels. ...
read moreTrumpeter Thomas Heberer's Trio on "Klippe," Solo Trumpet on "One" for "Clarino," a 2-LP Set
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Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
Trumpet stalwart Thomas Heberer is doing in his own way what a guy like Peter Evans is doing in the States. Making it new. Heberer's double LP Clarino (No Business LP 31/32) gives you two aspects of his music: Klippe," a chamber trio offering, and One," a solo trumpet record. Joachim Badenhorst brings his post-Giuffre clarinet and bass-clarinet into the mix; Pascal Niggenkemper holds forth on contrabass. It's a program of free music that can be relatively placid or energetic ...
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Jazz Trumpeter Thomas Marriott Charts a Successful Path in Seattle
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Seattle Jazz Scene
Thomas Marriotts Quartet will perform this Friday, March 5, at New Orleans Creole Restaurant, 114 First Ave. S., Seattle. For reservations, call 206-622-2563.
from The Seattle Times:
Here, in a narrow passage between a decorated brick wall and the stage at the New Orleans restaurant in Pioneer Square, is where the early education of trumpeter Thomas Marriott took place 20 years ago.
Barely a teenager, he showed up every week, often with his brother David (an accomplished trombonist), planting himself ...
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Jazz Trumpeter Thomas Marriott Looks Forward to the Past with Tribute to Horace Silver
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Seattle Jazz Scene
In the compressed, sometimes circular history of jazz, the freshest ideas often come from the past. Many young musicians, looking to push their music forward, are now mining the music of the late 1950s and '60s, the birth of what we think of as modern jazz. A quintet led by trumpeter Thomas Marriott, 33, will attempt to re-create and reinterpret that sound Sunday in a show at the New Orleans Creole Restaurant billed as a tribute to hard-bop pianist and ...
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