"Another great concert that I will miss - sorry! Catch you next summer at Berklee though! HP"
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Hans-Peter Brack commented on Bruce Gertz's event Kaufman-Gertz-Bergonzi Trio
"Will be a great concert and night - sorry to miss it and hope to see/hear you soon when I am next in Boston! HP"
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- First Name
- Hans-Peter
- College/University:
- Berklee College of Music & Jazz Studio Antwerpen, BE
- I am here for:
- Gigs, Educational Purposes, Meet Players, Networking
- Whom I want to meet:
- Jazz musicians in the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland and old friends from Boston, MA & Berklee Alumni
- Employment Status
- Employed
- About Me:
- HP play's E-bass (fretted & fretless, and 4 & 5 string), and acoustic bass (Kontrabass) and electric upright (NS Design) with jazz and blues groups around the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland. I am currently the bassist with the Swingtime Big Band from the Hague, the Netherlands and the Jazz Heeren Combo+, Tony's Wife Orchestra (traditional jazz), and Jive 8 in the province of North Brabant.
- Musical Background & Experience:
- Education
I have studied bass many years with Bruce Gertz and Whit Browne of Berklee College of Music and Thomas Martin of the BSO. Currently I am studying improvisation with Guenter Valkenaar of the Jazz Studio in Antwerpen Belgium.
I am an alumni of Berklee College of Music, and return there for continuing education and also in summer program of the Conservatory of Amsterdam and Manhattan School of Jazz.
Experience
Boston, MA
I played around Boston, MA for many years with Stan McDonald's Blue Horizon Jazz Band (traditional), Henry "Thins" Francis's Swing Legacy, Jimmie Mazzie, and I was the house bassist for Jazz at Noon (Jasons on Claredon St.) and performed with numerous other small and large groups including the Boston Conservatory Big Band and the Wellesley Symphony.
Zurich, Switzerland
I was the regular bassist for numerous small and large bands including at the Casa Bar for several visiting jazz artists from the UK such as Don Long, the Swan Big Band, Diggin the Blues, and the Dixie Jumpers.
- Why I love jazz:
- Great pleasure to listen to & play. Very expressive & challenging music.
- Music:
- Bassists: Ray Brown, Charles Mingus, Oscar Pettiford, Jimmy Blanton, Paul Chambers, Leroy Vinegar, Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller, Bruce Gertz, & Esperanza Spalding
Composers/Artists/Bands: Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Count Basie, Oscar Peterson Trio, the Poll Winners, Tower of Power, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, & Roomful of Blues.
Music: Jazz, Blues, Soul, Salsa, Funk, Gospel, Flamenco, Baroque, Klezmer, Rock and World
- Top 5 Desert Island Discs:
- Ray Brown & Duke Ellington "This One's for Blanton"
Ray Brown, Joe Sample, Shelly Manne "The Three"
Oscar Peterson Trio "We Get Requests"
Relaxin with the Miles Davis Quintet
Mingus "Me, Myself An Eye"
- Books:
- Always changes.
Currently: This Is Your Brain on Music by D.J. Levitin, Musicophilia (Tales of Music and the Brain) by Oliver Sacks, The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salmon Rushdie, and the Road Less Travelled by S. Peck
- Television:
- Preferably none
- Movies:
- Always changes
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Comment Wall (3 comments)
- At 7:21am on May 18, 2012,
Sotia Teneh said… Good day,
How is everything with you, I picked interest on you, after going through your
short profile and deemed it necessary to write you immediately. I have something
very vital to diclose to you, but I found it difficult to express myself here,
since it's a public site.Could you please get back to me My E-mail address
(sotia_teneh2@hotmail.com) for the full details.
Have a nice day.
thanks
Sotia Teneh.
- At 2:59pm on November 22, 2010,
Marta Graciela Bressi said… - Dear Hans-Peter Brack,
´d really appreciate it if you could take the time to look at my work and leave your impressions here or in the guestbook on my homepage -http://www.miartemartagracielabressi.webs.com/- where there are more samples of my digital art works, engravings and sculptures. The web site´s in Spanish but, if you want to read the texts in English, you can access my Livejournal:
http://pallasatheneas.livejournal.com
You can also visit the website we created with the Belgian jazz musician Dirk Schreurs to make our recent video art collaboration known to the world:
http://www.mindsofglass.webs.com
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Minds of Glass: ¨All visual compositions perfectly match the soundtrack’s expressive aesthetics in terms of emotional content and artistic strength” (New York/Los Angeles Independent Media Board).
http://cminejazz.com/show/2010/11/12/minds-of-glass
http://martagracielabressistudios.webs.com/
Regards,
Marta
P.S.: Unfortunately, i' ve got too many contact on the network to add more.File free to add me if you want.
- At 7:26pm on October 3, 2010,
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