NEWS : the music of Gunter Hampel
GUNTER HAMPEL new york TRIO
ONE OF THE GREAT INNOVATORS OF OUR TIME IN MUSIC -village voice-new york
ON TOUR IN THE USA 2OO3 :
"STANDING OVATIONS in BUFFALO"
"WE NEVER HAD SO MANY PEOPLE COMING"
enthusiastic reception in Rochester,Detroit,Pittsburg , Boston and NEW YORK
Gunter Hampel vibraphone,bassclarinet,Flute
Perry Robinson
clarinet
Lou Grassi dm
AND THE TOUR GOES ON :
MAY 10-18 in EUROPE (Germany)
May 1o. JazzFestival Lueneburg
May 11.Goettingen , 17 h GH-FESTSPIELE
Gunter Hampel-
Prince Alegs-
Perry Robinson-
Lou Grassi-
Christian Weidner-
Bernd Oezsevim-
Hichem
May 12.BERLIN,Uebereck
May 13.KOELN, Loft
May 15.HAMBURG,Motte,Altona
May 17.AMSTERDAM, Bim House
26. NEW YORK VISION FESTIVAL
GUNTER HAMPEL GALAXIE DREAM BAND
Gunter Hampel vibraphone,bassclarinet,flute,
Perry Robinson clarinet,
Lou Grassi dm,
Prince Alegs (beyond-break-)dance,
Ruomi Lee Hampel poetry,film,
Hersch Silverman poetry
Next bookings in the USA :
2OO3
May 2o-June 9
July 2o-Sept.15
2oo4:
call o11-49-551-31871
or e-mail: GuntHampel@aol.com
birth-CD o2o813 CHALLENGE OF THE NOW
"LIVE AT THE KNITING FACTORY",New York City 2oo2
birth-DVD o2o918 PHASE 2
"live" AT TONIC , New York City 2oo2
in preparation:
DVD from the US-Tour 2oo3
CD from the US -TOUR 2oo3
We also offer our special-birth records-service: each concert , uncut, - if recorded (check with us) is available as CD or DVD, each 15,99 $ or EURO + Mailing
for other rewarded birth records - LPs-CDs-DVDs-books-VIDEOs
check : www.gunterhampelmusic.de
ArtVoice
Pittsburgh City Paper
Buffalo/USA
UNIVERSAL SOUNDS:
GUNTER HAMPEL
TRIO AT HALLWALLS
"This Saturday, Hallwalls and Resurrection Music will present an extremely rare appearance of a true living legend of modern music.
German composer/improviser, vibraphonist, bassclarinetist, flutist, arranger, producer, and all around perpetual innovator Gunter Hampel will bring his new New York Trio to Hallwalls" Blackn-n-Blue Theatre in a special no-admission concert appearance.
For nearly fifty years, Hampel has been performing and recording his highly personalized music in a plethora of contexts from solo to orchestral allover the world. He's a major instigator of Germany's free-jazz movement and is hailed as a patriarch of the Euroepean improvised music tradition and beyond.
He is known for his mastery of the vibraphone and bassclarinet in particular, but also for his skill as a composer and arranger.
Hampel has [pl;ayed with nearly every major European Jazz Musician and has had many collaborators over the years including his wife, vocalist Jeanne Lee, as well as Don Cherry, Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, Anthony Braxton, John McLaughlin, Steve McCall, Marion Brown, and countless others.
His new New York Trio features long-time collaborator, clarinet master Perry Robinson who has worked with Hampel since the early "7os in his famous Galaxie Dream Band, and the prolific drummer Lou Grassi.
This is indeed a special opportunity and could be the only chance ever to hear Gunter perform in Buffalo.
-gordon jaworski
THE ARTS
by Marty Levine
On a recent live recording from the Knitting Factory in New York City, German multi-instrumentalist Gunter Hampel and his New York Trio covers a lot of ground.
With his clarinet and saxophone (she means the bassclarinet),Hampel and fellow clarinetist Perry Robinson thoroughly deconstruct ragtime, with his primary instrument, the vibraphone Hampel creates etheral tones that pierce with arrogant sustains and, aletrnately, bop in an almost recognizable manner. Drummer Lou Grassi even provides some avant-breaks- throwing a bone to some super-progressive sampler out there.
Known for collaborations with the likes of his late wife Jeanne Lee and Anthony Braxton, Hampel is a true modern jazz legend.