MAUSI (QUARTET MAURER-SITTER) feat. JACK WALRATH – 20.00

CHRISTIAN MAURER (Saxophon)

PRIMUS SITTER (Gitarre)

MARC ABRAMS (bass)

Herbert Pirker (drums)

Jack Walrath - Trumpet / Composer / Leader / Conductor / Arranger / Educator / Writer / Historian

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MAUSI (QUARTET
MAURER-SITTER), feat.
JACK WALRATH

Moderner Groovy Jazz mit:

CHRISTIAN
MAURER (Saxophon)

wirkte u.a. mit: Saxofour,
Karl Ratzer, Natalie Cole, Kenny Wheeler, Maria Joao , Michael Gibbs, Jack
Walrath, Wiener Philharmoniker, Klangforum Wien, NDR Orchester Hamburg,
Upper Austrian Jazzorchestra, Vienna Art Orchestra, Erich Kleinschuster
Quintett, Johnny Griffin, Adam Nussbaum, Liza Minelli, Raul de Souza, Joey
Baron, Dorretta Carter, The Supremes, EBU Big-Band, Bob Mintzer, Ed Neumeister,
Joe Zawinul, Diane Schuur, Slide Hampton…

PRIMUS
SITTER (Gitarre)

ist/war mit eigenen Projekten
oder als Sideman tätig in Österreich, Deutschland, Schweiz, Italien, Slowenien,
Kroatien, Portugal, Polen, Niederlande, Türkei, USA, Mexiko…
Nösit, Upper Austrian Jazz Orchestra, Manfred Weinbergers „Austria meets
Canada”, Trio Süd, Couch Ensemble, Oliver Groenewald Newnwet, Theatercafe
Direkt, Primus Sitter Five, Soul What, Austrian Jazz Orchestra,… Zusammenarbeit
u.a. mit: Peter Herbert, Alex Deutsch, George Garzone, Wolfgang Puschnig, Willi
Resetarits, Erich Kleinschuster,…Preisträger beim „International Heritage
Jazz-Guitar-Competition“ 1996 in Nashville/Tennessee, US

very fresh: http://www.jazzcorner.com/news/display.php?news=1522

MARC
ABRAMS (bass)

wurde
1958 in New York geboren, wohnt seit etwa 15 Jahre in Venedig.

Er
spielte in Radio- und TV-Sendungungen, auf Jazzfestivals, Konzerten und
Tourneen in Österreich, Deutschland, Frankreich, Russland, Griechenland,
Holland, Italien, Schweiz, U.S.A. usw.

Herbert
Pirker (drums)

ist der Prototyp des vielseitigen und kreativen
Schlagzeug-Individualisten, der es versteht, als unverwechselbarer Teil
diverser Ensembles verschiedenartiger stilistischer Zusammenhänge zu agieren,
und dabei stets spannende und persönliche musikalische Akzente zu setzen. (Hans
Koller Preis 2004).
Herbert
Pirker besticht durch seine vitale und überaus präzise und kraftvolle, aber
auch zu jeder Freiheit ausschweifenden Spielweise. (Kelomat, Lorenz Raab, Klaus
Dickbauer, Max Nagl, Alex Machacek, Sumitra, Robert Riegler, Falb Fiction, Karl
Ritter, Otto Lechner, Kurt Ostbahn, Linley Marte, Jazzwerkstatt Wien, Wolfgang
Puschnig, Bumi Fian, Bumpfi und die Tanzbaeren)

Jack Walrath

Trumpet / Composer / Leader
/ Conductor / Arranger / Educator / Writer / Historian

Jack Walrath’s talents have
been utilized by Charles Mingus, Ray Charles, Muhal Richard Abrams, Ricky Ford,
Sam Rivers, Joe Morello, Charli Persip, Miles Davis, Quincey Jones, Ray
Anderson, Craig Harris, Pete LaRoca, Mike Longo, Elvis Costello, Motown, Larry
Willis, George Gruntz, Paul Jeffrey, Gunther Schuller, Hal Galper, the Monk
Tentet, Bobby Watson, et al. He has appeared in films, TV and Radio both as a
sideman and leader since 1965. He has released 22 record albums as a leader. In
addition he has appeared on countless albums with others (Mingus-14,
Abrams-3,and others such as Persip, Davis, Lou Rawls, Richie Cole, Ricky Ford,
the Jazz Tribe, Joe Lovano, the WDR Big Band, Jamaaladeen Tacuma and Gruntz to
name a few).

He has written liner notes and articles for DOWNBEAT and the MUSIC REVIEW and
for 1 and 1/2 years was a columnist for the INTERNATIONAL MUSICIAN AND
RECORDING WORLD. He is currently authoring a book about his experiences,
musical techniques, records that are very influential to artists but have been
ignored by critics, and his experiences with Charles Mingus for the last four
years of his life.

He has been the subject of feature articles in virtually every major jazz trade
magazine including. JAZZIZ, DOWNBEAT, MUSIC REVIEW, JAZZTIMES, CADENCE, MUSIC
PAPER, HOTHOUSE, JAZZ EMPORIUM, JAZZ FORUM, et al. He has had reviews and
appeared in many of the major newspapers around the world. In addition he has
biographies and reviews in many books and record guides.

He has written compositions and arrangements for Mingus, Red Rodney, Ira
Sullivan, Cecil Brooks III, the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra, WDR, NDR, UMO
Orchestra, Catania City Jazz Orchestra, Charli Persip Superband, Upper Austrian
Jazz Orchestra, et al. He has also appeared as a featured artist with most of
the above. He was the featured artist with the radio broadcast of the 50th
anniversary of the NDR.

He has written soundtrack music for „Homicide: Life On The Street” and the Bill
Cosby NBC Mystery Movie.In addition to leading his own jazz groups, THE JACK
WALRATH GROUP, WHOLLY TRINITY, HARD CORPS, THE MASTERS OF SUSPENSE, and a
quintet (which, along with Paul Jackson experimented with rhythms that were to
be explored further when Jackson joined Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters), he was
also leader of the MINGUS DYNASTY and THE CHARLES MINGUS BIG BAND. In addition,
he has conducted the aforementioned European orchestras and conducted the Mingus
work „Epitaph” with the TUCSON JAZZ SOCIETY. In later years he has been touring
with the Masters of Suspense, Ray Anderson, Larry Willis, George Gruntz and Sam
Rivers. In addition he has been doing special projects around Europe and the
US.

He has received composition grants from the National Endowment For The Arts,
the Aaron Copland Composition Grant and from the Mary Flagler Cary Trust. He
has received performance grants from the NEA and Quad City Arts. He has had
compositions/arrangements commissioned for virtually every instrumental
combination from symphony orchestra to solo piano. He has written an
instruction book that has been published by Advance Music.

He has conducted seminars
in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Japan, Israel, Finland, the LaGuardia High School
and the US. In addition, he has conducted Master Classes and Clinics in many US
states and countries at Conservatories all over the world. In New York City he
conducted Master classes and/or adult education classes at the Manhattan School
of Music, NYU and the New School for Social Research. He has conducted classes
from ages 3 to adult and Post-Graduate education through the Quad City Arts,
LaGuardia High School of the Performing Arts, and the Myrna Loy Arts Center.

His Blue Note album, „Master of Suspense“ was nominated for a Grammy.

Jack Walrath started playing the trumpet at the age of 9 in 1955 while living
in Edgar, Montana, a bustling metropolis with the population of 100 (It has
since become virtually a ghost town!). He developed a healthy perception of
music from lack of negative peer pressure which so often happens in cities. In,
1964 after graduating from Joliet, MT. Highschool, he attended the Berklee
College of Music graduating in 1968 with a composition diploma. The diploma program
was chosen over that of the degree in order to have classes only of music,
therefore actually learning more about music than if he went for a degree! Also
he considers his 40 years of major professional experience as the best
education of all!

„One of the most
continually compelling soloists and leaders in all of jazz.”
Nat Hentoff

„One player who started his
career in Mingus’ last band was Jack Walrath, who has emerged in latter years
as a composer and organizer astonishingly on a par with the master.”
Stephen M. Stroff
Discovering Great Jazz
Newmarket Press N.Y.

„His playing has the
articulate sarcasm of a Lee Morgan, his writing reflects the eclecticism and
bravura of his former mentor Charles Mingus.”
Chip
Stern
Musician Magazine