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Bruno Heinen is a London based contemporary improvising pianist, composer and educator.
Bruno has released five albums under his own name on the forward looking Babel Label :
Twinkle Twinkle
Tierkries
Postcard to Bill Evans
Changing of the Seasons
Common Spaces
Bruno has worked with artists such as Reem Kelani, Julian Siegel, Jean Toussaint, Julian Arguelles, Pete Saberton, Emilia Martensson, Fulvio Sigurta, Rachael Cohen, Antonio Fusco, and Heidi Vogel amongst others.
He has performed in venues and festivals including the South Bank Centre, Ronnie Scotts Jazz Club, the Vortex Jazz Club, the Shanghai World Music Festival, the London Jazz Festival, the Cork Jazz Festival, the Rest Is Noise Festival, Cadogan Hall, and the Royal Albert Hall. He has had his music played on BBC radio 3, Jazz LineUp, Late Junction, BBC6 Music, BBC Scotland, in Austria, Canada, and the USA, as well as giving live broadcasts and interviews for the BBC.
Bruno studied classical piano at the Royal College of music with the then head of keyboard Andrew Ball and then went on to win prizes from the Musicians Benevolent Fund and the Countess of Munster Trust to take his Jazz masters at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where he studied under the late, inspirational pianist John Taylor. Bruno was asked to stay on at the Guildhall as a Junior Fellow where he completed a Masters of Musical Performance under the guidance of the great Pete Saberton.
He is currently researching towards a practice-based PhD at the RNCM with the title:
Counterpoint in jazz piano with specific relation to the solo work of Fred Hersch
As a composer, Bruno has written for groups ranging from sextet to two piano’s and percussion (for a project with the late Pete Saberton), and from big band to classical string ensemble. In 2009, Bruno was nominated for the prestigious Paul Hamlyn Composers Award.
Bruno has a longstanding musical partnership with the outstanding Palestinian singer, composer and broadcaster Reem Kelani. Together they have played all over the world in concert halls, festivals and live broadcasts. Please see Reem's website for more details.
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Below is the track listing for the Crazeology Radio show dated 25th November 2017. A link to the show can be found here:
Below is the track listing for the Boogie Wonderland Show dated 23rdNovember 2017. A link to the show can be found here:
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"This is an amazing ensemble, playing music like no others these days. There hasn’t been big band music as exciting as this since forever...GTO is creating its own electrifying musical gold." - Andrew Velez, New York City Jazz Record.
"Carpenter leads a suberb band of New York-based vanguardists and while most of the solos ditch period authenticity and employ a vocabulary that contains ideas from the next 90 years of jazz history, his sharp arrangements retain the contrapuntal flash, sweet voicings, and fiery rhythms of the original era..." -- Peter Margasak, Downbeat'
The Ghost Train Orchestra was founded in 2006 by composer/arranger Brian Carpenter. That year Carpenter was hired as the musical director for an event marking the 90th anniversary of the historic Regent Theater in Boston. He rediscovered music from a transitional time and place in America: the late 1920s Chicago and Harlem, when the jazz orchestra was being developed by bandleaders such as Fletcher Henderson, Don Redman, Tiny Parham, Fess Williams, and Charlie Johnson. Carpenter began transcribing the parts from old 78s and arranged the music for a 9-piece ensemble to back performers on stage. The reaction to the band's debut at the Regent was tremendous, and since then the band has performed regularly in New York City, home of all its members except the leader, a Boston resident. In 2008, Carpenter arranged the music with added strings, voice, and musical saw, and the following year recorded the band in New York City at Avatar Studios with engineer/producer Danny Blume. The result of this work accumulated in Hothouse Stomp released in 2011.
The debut record Hothouse Stomp achieved widespread critical acclaim and reached the top 10 of the Billboard Jazz charts in the weeks following Carpenter's spot on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross. The band has performed at the Chicago Jazz Festival, NY Winter JazzFest, Mass MoCA, Museum of Modern Art, John F. Kennedy Center in Washington DC, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
The Ghost Train Orchestra released their second Book of Rhapsodies in 2013, featuring wild new arrangements of "chamber jazz" from the mid-to-late 1930s. Their third record Hot Town featuring saxophonist Colin Stetson made several top ten lists in 2015. They are currently working on their fourth record, a follow-up to Book of Rhapsodies with a six-person choir and a 12-piece orchestra.
Below is the track listing for the Crazeology Radio show dated 18th November 2017. A link to the show can be found here:
Below is the track listing for the Boogie Wonderland Show dated 16th November 2017. A link to the show can be found here:
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Rotem Sivan is taking the NYC jazz scene by storm. Described by DownBeat Magazine as “a remarkable talent and a welcome new voice on the scene,” he completed his studies in both classical composition and jazz with honors in Tel Aviv & NYC. Sivan tours with his trio most of the year playing in world-renowned festivals and clubs. He has performed in countries such as France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Poland, UK, Slovenia, Mexico, Chile, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Israel, USA, and Canada, among others, and has given workshops around the world in top universities and schools.
Rotem has developed a strong online presence with over 24k followers on Instagram alone. Upon graduation Sivan moved to NYC to pursue his passion for jazz. While making his first steps in the local scene he was also studying at The New School for Jazz & Contemporary Music. Since his relocation, Sivan has performed with many prominent musicians, including Peter Bernstein, Ari Hoenig, Ben Street and Ferenc Nemeth.
Sivan can be seen regularly at the city’s top venues such as Smalls, Birdland, The Jazz Gallery, The Bar Next Door and The Blue Note. He has performed at many international festivals such as Polanco Jazz Festival, Chutzpah Jazz Festival, Marseille Jazz Festival, Venice Jazz Festival, Fara Jazz Festival, Exposure Festival, Montreux Jazz Festival, Utopia Music Festival, Bern Jazz Festival and Sonora Jazz Festival to name a few.
One of the most exciting young jazz performers, Rotem Sivan is developing at a fascinating rate. In 2013 he released his debut album “Enchanted Sun” on SteepleChase Records, followed by his second album “For Emotional Use Only” on Fresh Sound New Talent Records. Jazz critics and magazines around the world praised both albums receiving 4.5 stars on Downbeat Magazine. Sivan released his third album "A New Dance" in 2015 with bassist Haggai Cohen Milo and drummer Colin Stranahan, which was again met with critical acclaim. The upcoming album "Antidote" is in it's final production stages and will be released in early 2017.
Sivan is a guitarist for the 21st century, with an international background and border-defying interests. He has developed a glowing tone and quicksilver phrasing, as well as a sophisticated sense of rhythm and an openhearted approach to melody. Sivan’s approach to recording is unique and allows for the preservation of the soul and vibe of the jazz creation.
Below is the track listing for the Crazeology Radio show dated 11th November 2017. A link to the show can be found here:
Below is the track listing for the Boogie Wonderland Show dated 9th November 2017. A link to the show can be found here:
Below is the track listing for the Crazeology Radio show dated 4th November 2017. A link to the show can be found here:
Below is the track listing for the Boogie Wonderland Show dated 2nd November 2017. A link to the show can be found here:
Hermon Mehari’s anticipated debut album as a leader, “Bleu”, marks a new era in his career. The music covers both the ground of his contemporaries and his own original music in such a way to illustrate his current musical path. “Bleu” includes ECM recording artist Aaron Parks on piano, Blue Note recording artist Logan Richardson on alto saxophone, Peter Schlamb on vibraphone, Ryan J. Lee on drums and Rick Rosato on bass. Mehari was the recent winner of the 2015 Carmine Caruso International Trumpet Competition and a semifinalist in the 2014 Thelonious Monk Jazz Competition. In 2014 he released the CD "Our Journey" with Diverse, his second with the group. Mehari maintains a touring schedule around the world with his own group and as a sideman.
Mehari was also the winner of the 2008 National Trumpet Competition and placed 2nd in the International Trumpet Guild competition in Sydney, Australia. As a founding member of Diverse, whose eponymous debut album on Seattle-based Origin Records reached the Top 40 on the Jazzweek Radio Charts, he has performed professionally with noted saxophonists Jaleel Shaw, Logan Richardson, Bobby Watson, Ben Van Gelder, and Tivon Pennicott. He has also performed with Aaron Parks, Joe Sanders, Hubert Laws, Randy Brecker, Tony Tixier, Dave Pietro, Clay Jenkins and many other great musicians.
Below is the track listing for the Crazeology Radio show dated 28th October 2017. A link to the show can be found here:
Below is the track listing for the Boogie Wonderland Show dated 26th October 2017. A link to the show can be found here:
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