Some more design work for Dave Douglas and Greenleaf Music. This record contains all 12 tracks of this year‘s subscribers series ENGAGE and will be released today. The album features Dave Douglas, Tomeka Reid, Anna Webber, Jeff Parker, Nick Dunston, Kate Gentile and special guests Riley Mulherkar and Dave Adewumi. www.greenleafmusic.comdavedouglas.bandcamp.com
Extremely happy to start this new adventure. I‘m co-curating and organising this concert series at the place where my instruments are made. Small concerts in a living room atmosphere and with great musicians. We started last night with a sold out show of John Raymond and his Trio Real Feels featuring Gilad Hekselman and Colin Stranahan. Next concerts
I was back in New York for another edition of one of the most exciting festivals. The Festival of New Trumpet Music is of course all about the trumpet, but offers a musical variety like no other festival. Led by Dave Douglas, the 17th edition again presented a lot of great music and countless great trumpeters. I take
Design has always been a passion of mine. I’ve been able to do some work for Dave Douglas‘ label Greenleaf Music in recent years and it’s great to work with him and the whole team. I also designed the cover of his latest release Devotion with Uri Caine and Andrew Cyrille and I’m happy to
Great to hear so much beautiful music and meet so many amazing musicians from around the world after preparing the festival for quite some time. It’s hard to choose anything, but these musicians have left a lasting impression, even though I already knew their music: South african pianist, singer and composer Thandi Ntuli brought her
Last October Ambrose released his latest record called “Origami Harvest”. I’m always amazed by the music and the sonic landscapes he creates on his albums. Of course totally worth checking out, even though you won’t hear much of his beautiful trumpet playing. Also had the chance to meet him again personally on his recent tour
I was invited to talk about the great Roy Hargrove for the SRF 2 Kultur radio broadcast Jazz Collection. A real honor for me to pay tribute to one of my musical heroes with a selection of some of his music and some stories. May his legacy live on forever. Listen to the show to
Shocked to hear Roy Hargrove is no longer with us! Such a huge influence and inspiration for me. The man with the most beautiful sound, with so much soul in everything he played and a sense for style. A great human being living the music every second of his life. Rest in Peace Roy, we‘ll