Talking Jazz Live on Jazz Impressionism: The House of the Singing Winds Project

JAM MUSIC LAB students may attend Colloquia for .25 ECTS Workshop Credit. 

Tuesday, September 23, 3:30-4:30pm, Spielraum and Livestream

Guests: Peter Lehel, saxophone – HfM Karlsruhe, Peter Kienle, guitar – USA
Hosted by Monika Herzig on a new album release featuring jazz interpretations of impressionistic paintings.
Album Info: https://www.acmerecords.com/

Impressionism means capturing the mood of a fleeting moment. The picture depicts a momentary, natural impression, trading details in favor of colors and contours. One of the most important American impressionists was T.C. Steele who studied in Germany and worked in Indiana. His House of the Singing Winds in Nashville, IN is now an Artist retreat. This specific group of musicians with homes in Indiana, Germany, Austria, and New York came together with sketches of music inspired by T.C. Steele’s art pieces, celebrating the impression of the moment and their friendship across continents and cultures through the language of jazz.

Jazz pianist/ composer/ author Monika Herzig has led groups around the world, most recently her ensemble Sheroes featuring among others Leni Stern, Jamie Baum, Reut Regev, Rosa Avila,and Jennifer Vincent. With more than 20 releases to her credit, she has received 4-Star reviews in DownBeat Magazine, high placement on the US JazzWeek charts, and many grants and awards. She is also Vice Rector/ Professor of Artistic Research at Jam Music Lab University and author of “David Baker: A Legacy in Music” and “Experiencing Chick Corea: A Listener’s Companion” (nominated as one of the best jazz books of 2018) and the co-editor of “The Routledge Companion to Jazz and Gender”.

Peter Lehel works as multi-reedist and composer with many renowned groups and musicians including Oláh Kálmán Trio Budapest, Ulisses Rocha European Brazil Project, Kristjan Randaluaus Estland, Monika Herzig Acoustic Project (USA), Barbara Dennerlein (Deutschland)as wellas Classical Music Stars, such asSabine Meyer, Wolfgang Meyer, Henning Wiegräbe, StevenMead u.v.a.He is known as one of the most interesting composers forsaxophone and clarinet.As a soloist he collaborates with various orchestras, i.e. theBudapest Chamber Symphony

Guitarist/ composerPeter Kienle grew up in Germany and studied in Munich.Prior to immigrating in the US in 1988, he taught at various music schools. He is an in-demand performer in the Midwest and leads various popular Fusion and World Music Ensemble ,including BeebleBrox, The Time Flies, Splinter Group, and Pangea.