John Hollenbeck´s Claudia Quintet live at JazzBaltica 2009

John Hollenbeck - Drums

Matt Moran - Vibraphone
Ted Reichman - Accordeon
Chris Speed - Saxophone
Drew Gress - Bass

recorded live at Konzertscheune, Salzau, Germany, July 4, 2009

1. Introduction
2. Be Happy
3. Arabic
4. Introduction
5. Holy Thursday 7:30 pm
6. Royal Toast
7. Peace On Earth (For Frederick Frank)
8. Rainy Days And Mondays/The Peanut Vendor

The Claudia presented some tunes from their latest cd "for". You can find the following information on their myspace site:
"For" is the new CD by the Claudia Quintet, the genre-defying band led by Grammy-nominated composer John Hollenbeck. "For" is a positive message. "For" is driving rhythms, beautiful melodies, and passionate virtuosity. "For" is for all music lovers. "For" is also their fourth CD. Since Hollenbeck first presented the band in an internet cafe on Avenue A in Manhattan in 1997, the Claudia Quintet has amazed audiences from Alabama to the Amazon. Their unique sound has inspired dancing hippie girls at a New Mexico noise festival, the avant-garde cognoscenti in the concert halls of Vienna and Sao Paolo, and a generation of young musicians worldwide. In the course of the thousands of miles they have traveled together and hundreds of concerts they've played, the Claudia Quintet has evolved and grown, developing a dynamic live sound based on trust and spontaneity. They bring this powerful energy into the studio, where they record the old-fashioned way, live, playing as a band. The legions of people who have been won over by the music of the Claudia Quintet live and on CD attest to the fact that genre-defying new music need not be "inaccessible." "For" is for everyone.