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Thomas Heberer: trumpet, quarter-tone trumpet
Joachim Badenhorst: clarinet, bass clarinet
Pascal Niggenkemper: double bass

Editor's info:
Although a broad term, most people associate a specific set of dos and don'ts with jazz, most of them unseparable from the African-American experience. Artists like trumpeter Thomas Heberer--a German living in New York City--challenge those seemingly holy rules by not trying to pretend; he simply is himself: A man raised and educated in Europe. Thomas' music certainly owes something to the jazz canon but instead of being limited and exclusive, his approach is broad and inclusive, a branch of world music. His art is coming from the gut as much as from the brain; it doesn't distinguish between high-brow and low-brow: think Leadbelly, Louis, Ornette, Gesualdo, Bach and Stockhausen, all at the same time. Heberer's trio Clarino with Belgian clarinetist Joachim Badenhorst and French-German bassist Pascal Niggenkemper--both New York colleagues--exclusively plays originals written in Thomas' innovative Cookbooknotation, "a code that brings a fresh and very personal approach to blending improvisation and composition," as the artist explains. "It does so by implementing the idea of instant memory. Shaped according to a specific set of rules, musical units are improvised and memorized on the fly, and later reintroduced into the musical process--sometimes modified, sometimes not." Thomas Heberer is one of the most interesting brassmen today, garnering credit for his excellent and innovative work, both as a trumpeter and a rare practitioner of the quarter-tone trumpet. A longtime member of Misha Mengelberg's Instant Composers Pool, Thomas has collaborated with most everybody in the field in the last 20 years. Some of his more recent employers include: Han Bennink, Karl Berger, Peter Broetzmann and Eugene Chadbourne. The title of this CD, "Klippe" ("cliff" in English) is a metaphor for the music being "on the edge"; it's about respecting and knowing the past while being fearlessly ready to jump off the cliff into unknown territory, enjoying the adrenaline ru.......
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Editor's info:
Although a broad term, most people associate a specific set of dos and don'ts with jazz, most of them unseparable from the African-American experience. Artists like trumpeter Thomas Heberer--a German living in New York City--challenge those seemingly holy rules by not trying to pretend; he simply is himself: A man raised and educated in Europe. Thomas' music certainly owes something to the jazz canon but instead of being limited and exclusive, his approach is broad and inclusive, a branch of world music. His art is coming from the gut as much as from the brain; it doesn't distinguish between high-brow and low-brow: think Leadbelly, Louis, Ornette, Gesualdo, Bach and Stockhausen, all at the same time. Heberer's trio Clarino with Belgian clarinetist Joachim Badenhorst and French-German bassist Pascal Niggenkemper--both New York colleagues--exclusively plays originals written in Thomas' innovative Cookbooknotation, "a code that brings a fresh and very personal approach to blending improvisation and composition," as the artist explains. "It does so by implementing the idea of instant memory. Shaped according to a specific set of rules, musical units are improvised and memorized on the fly, and later reintroduced into the musical process--sometimes modified, sometimes not." Thomas Heberer is one of the most interesting brassmen today, garnering credit for his excellent and innovative work, both as a trumpeter and a rare practitioner of the quarter-tone trumpet. A longtime member of Misha Mengelberg's Instant Composers Pool, Thomas has collaborated with most everybody in the field in the last 20 years. Some of his more recent employers include: Han Bennink, Karl Berger, Peter Broetzmann and Eugene Chadbourne. The title of this CD, "Klippe" ("cliff" in English) is a metaphor for the music being "on the edge"; it's about respecting and knowing the past while being fearlessly ready to jump off the cliff into unknown territory, enjoying the adrenaline ru.......
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