November 29, 2009

Duos live at WDR Jazz Cologne 2009


Tom van der Geld - vibraphone, marimba
Pascal Schumacher - vibraphone, marimba

recorded live at WDR Funkhaus Köln, Kleiner Sendesaal, October 31, 2009

1. The Glamour Side of the Truth (Schumacher)
2. Jonquell (van der Geld)
3. Vocé e Eu (Carlos Lyra)

The American vibraphonist Tom van der Geld was born in Boston, and has been living permanently in Europe since 1974. He has performed at nearly all of the significant European Jazz Festivals including Montreux, Weltmusiktage Donaueschingen, Baden-Baden New Jazz Meeting, Willisau Festival, Jazz Festival Berlin and the Leverkusener Jazz Festival.
Vibraphone player Pascal Schumacher, born in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and currently living and working in Luxembourg and Brussels, is a confirmed representative of the new generation of jazz musicians and helds master’s degrees in musicology of the University "Marc Bloch" of Strasbourg (F) and in jazz music at the Koninklijk Conservatorium of The Hague (NL).

Pablo Held - piano
Martin Reiter - piano, electric piano

recorded live at WDR Funkhaus Köln, Kleiner Sendesaal, October 30, 2009

4. Tryg (Reiter)
5. Auma (Reiter)
6. Chez es Sarsa (Martin Reiter)
7. Flowting (Martin Reiter)
8. If ever I would leave you (Frederick Loewe)
9. In A Silent Way (Joe Zawinul)

Martin Reiter was born in Vienna in 1978. He spent his childhood in Upper Austria where he grew up with piano and saxophone lessons as the son of enthusiastic amateur musicians.
In 1996, Reiter began studying jazz piano at what is now the Anton Bruckner University in Linz. A year later he switched to the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna where, in the course of an arrangers workshop, he met Mathias Rüegg from the Vienna Art Orchestra who recognized Reiter’s qualities as a pianist and arranger. In his career Martin Reiter has won numerous awards, e.g. in 2002 he was First place winner, Austrian Young Lions competition, and received the Hans Koller Award, category New York Scholarship and in 2008 the Hans Koller Award CD of the year.

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