Live in Europe | |
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Live album by Fred Hersch Trio | |
Released | May 2018 |
Recorded | November 24, 2017 |
Venue | Brussels, Belgium |
Genre | Jazz |
Live in Europe is an album by the Fred Hersch Trio, [1] [2] [3] [4] released in May 2018.
Musicians
Cecil Percival Taylor was an American pianist and poet.
Jazz Standard was a jazz club located at 116 East 27th Street in the Rose Hill neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It frequently hosted well-known bands and musicians. The club was owned by restaurateur Danny Meyer and was located in the basement of one of his Blue Smoke restaurants.
Jeremy Webster "Fred" Frith is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser.
Soft Machine are a British rock band from Canterbury formed in mid-1966 by Mike Ratledge, Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers, Daevid Allen and Larry Nowlin. As a central band of the Canterbury scene, the group became one of the first British psychedelic acts and later moved into progressive and jazz rock, becoming a purely instrumental band in 1971. The band has undergone many line-up changes, with musicians such as Andy Summers, Hugh Hopper, Elton Dean, John Marshall, Karl Jenkins, Roy Babbington and Allan Holdsworth being members during the band's history. The current line-up consists of John Etheridge, Theo Travis, Fred Thelonious Baker and Asaf Sirkis.
Michael Moore is an American jazz musician who has lived in the Netherlands since 1982.
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Jeanfrançois Prins is a Belgian jazz guitarist, composer, vocalist and record producer. He has spent many years between New York City and Berlin where he was leading the Jazz Guitar departments in both music universities for a total of 12 years. Upon his return to Belgium in 2016, he became the CEO of the GAM Records label in 2017.
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