John Hollenbeck's The Claudia Quintet to Tour Europe and Florida: February-March 2015

The Claudia Quintet Winter Tour

John Hollenbeck's The Claudia Quintet
to Tour Europe and Florida
February-March 2015



[L-R: Red Wierenga, Matt Moran, John Hollenbeck, Chris Speed, Drew Gress]

Led by composer, drummer and three-time Grammy nominee John Hollenbeck, The Claudia Quintet have quietly but firmly and definitively recast jazz into shimmering new shapes inflected by classical minimalism, new music, progressive rock and post-rock. They are one of the most influential stylists on other musicians involved in cutting-edge jazz today. The Claudia Quintet have shaped the sound of what jazz is today, and what jazz can be.

"The buzz around this New York ensemble has grown to a roar over the last few years, which is a delicious irony given that The Claudia Quintet is often at its most affecting when playing sotto voce, as if content to whisper rather than bellow... Claudia is a jazz group questioning the divide between genres and points in time.” - Kevin Le Gendre, BBC Music

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The Claudia Quintet Winter Tour:
February-March 2015
- performances at festivals & other venues -

THE CLAUDIA QUINTET EUROPEAN TOUR

FRIDAY, FEB 13
Granollers Jazz Festival - Casino de Granollers
 Carrer d'Agustí Vinyamata, 21 Barcelona, Spain
10:00 PM

SATURDAY, FEB 14
House concert!
Corso XX Settembre 39, Cremona Italy
8:00 PM

MONDAY, FEB 16
Round Midnight Trieste
Via ginnastica 39, Trieste, Italy
9:00 PM

WEDNESDAY, FEB 18
Südtirol Jazzfestival at Batzen Sudwerk
Via Andreas Hofer 30, Bolzano-Bozen, Italy
9:00 PM €15/10

THURSDAY, FEB 19
Kulak präsentiert: CQ at Stanzerei Baden
Bruggerstrasse 37, Baden, Switzerland
8:15 PM

FRIDAY, FEB 20
Kunsthaus Nexus
Am Postplatz 1, Saalfelden, Austria
8:00 PM Adult €17, Child/Senior €13




THE CLAUDIA QUINTET FLORIDA TOUR

FRIDAY, FEB 27
St. Petersburg Jazz Festival @ SPC Music Center
6605 5^th Ave North, St. Petersburg FL USA
8:00 PM $15
http://www.stpetejazzfest.com/tickets

SATURDAY, FEB 28 (w/ Royal Toast)
The Fillmore @ Jackie Gleason Theater (The Gleason Room)
1700 Washington Ave, Miami Beach FL
7:30 PM $20-35
http://www.fillmoremb.com

SUNDAY, MAR 1
Timucua white house: presented by thecm5
2000 South Summerlin St., Orlando FL
7:30 PM FREE
http://thecm5.com/upcoming-events/

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For Tour Updates, see:
http://johnhollenbeck.com/live/

http://www.cuneiformrecords.com/tours.html

For more information on The Claudia Quintet, see:
http://johnhollenbeck.com

NEW TRAILER REVEALED FOR WORLD-RENOWNED GUITARIST/COMPOSER STEVE HACKETT'S FORTHCOMING SOLO ALBUM "WOLFLIGHT" DUE OUT IN NORTH AMERICA APRIL 7TH

NEW TRAILER REVEALED FOR WORLD-RENOWNED GUITARIST/COMPOSER STEVE HACKETT'S 

FORTHCOMING SOLO ALBUM "WOLFLIGHT" 

DUE OUT IN NORTH AMERICA APRIL 7^TH

 

  

(New York, NY) - On April 7^th, world-renowned guitarist/composer Steve Hackett will release his brand new solo album, WOLFLIGHT, in North America via InsideOut Music.  Click here to access the brand new trailer for WOLFLIGHT featuring new music snippets and insight from Steve Hackett himself.  WOLFLIGHT is Steve's first original solo studio album since BEYOND THE SHROUDED HORIZON in 2011.  The album will be available in North America in two physical configurations, as well as digitally.  Fans will have the option of purchasing WOLFLIGHT physically as a standard CD or as a deluxe version with a CD plus BluRay digipak, which will feature two bonus tracks.

 

The concept behind WOLFLIGHT is a new, unexplored chapter in Hackett's career.  The tracks take the listener through a journey in space and time looking at the different faces of the endless fight for freedom. Wandering between parallel universes, Hackett explores contemporary and ancient cultures, from Greece ("Corycian Fire") to the Far East ("Wolflight"), the United States and Martin Luther King ("Black Thunder"), and also his very own childhood memories ("The Wheel's Turning") and the unresolved drama of domestic violence ("Love Song To A Vampire").

Steve Hackett's electric guitar plays a powerful role, although we also hear him on acoustic guitar, Arabian lute and twelve string, along with his strong lead vocals.  Guest musicians include long time collaborators Roger King (keyboards & programming), Gary O'Toole (drums), Rob Townsend (sax, duduk), Nick Beggs (bass & stick) and Amanda Lehmann (harmony vocals).  Malik Mansurov on tar and Sara Kovaks on didgeridoo add an extra exotic element, plus YES bassist Chris Squire plays on "Love Song To A Vampire" and Hugo Dagenhardt plays drums on "Dust and Dreams".  The innovative songwriting team includes Steve Hackett, his wife Jo Hackett and Roger King.

In 2010, Steve Hackett was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame at The 25^th Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony alongside his Genesis bandmates from the classic line-up: Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford.  For more than three decades, Steve Hackett has been known for his innovative tone and extraordinary versatility as a guitarist and composer.  He helped define Genesis' sound as lead guitarist in the classic line-up and went on to have a highly-successful career as a solo artist, and also as part of 80s supergroup GTR with Steve Howe.