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Erik Van Lier and MUK jazzorchestra, A Tribute to Peter Herbolzheimer
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Erik van Lier was born on April 6, 1945 in Haarlem in the Netherlands and began his professional career at the age of 17 in the Dutch radio big band The Skymasters. As a representative of the Dutch broadcasting company NOS, he played three times at the jazz workshops of the European Broadcast Union EBU and once at the European program Nordring.
During the Loosdrecht Jazz Festival he took part in a "Trombone Battle" with Slide Hampton, Ake Persson, Urbie Green, Kai Winding and Frank Rosalino. In 1974, he received a scholarship from the Dutch government to study with George Roberts ("Mr Bass Trombone"). During his stay there, he also studied with Phil Teele, Paul Faulise and Ed Kleinhammer.
Erik van Lier was the bass trombonist in the legendary Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band. He played in the Slide Hampton-Joe Haider Big Band, the Mel Lewis-Joe Haider Big Band and in Thad Jones' Ball Of Fire. He also played with Peter Herbolzheimer in Germany and with the Skymasters, The Netherlands Concert Jazzband and Bart's Bones, his brother's trombone quartet. Together with his brother Bart, he performed as a star guest at the workshops of the International Trombone Association (ITA) in Nashville in 1987 and Eton (England) in 1989.
He teaches bass trombone at the Amsterdam Conservatory, the largest jazz department in Europe, and leads the two big bands.
Program and cast
Erik Van Lier: bass trombone, conductor, arrangements
MUK.jazzorchestra
PORGY and BESS Jazzclub
Porgy & Bess (actually, Jazz and Music Club Porgy & Bess ) is a jazz club in the Riemergasse 11 in the 1st district of Vienna. The club , founded in 1993 is considered " the most important jazz organizer and trendy meeting point " of the Austrian capital .
The program of Porgy & Bess speaks to a very large audience , about 70,000 guests a year ; is accordingly Jazz " understood very pluralistic ," and the program " even in fringe areas , such as electronic music , contemporary music and world music penetrated . " Many international artists , particularly from the U.S. space , see also Austrian musician here an opportunity to perform . The club also offers the stage for events, such as the award of the Austrian World Music Award.
Musicologist Christian Scheib According to the Porgy & Bess " at the same time essential for the development of the musical ( jazz ) reality of a City" and needs and uses ' plain commonplace as urban space music. " It creates itself " through artistic preferences, acoustic quality , capacity and real capacity, the necessary exclusion of other clubs. " Here, the different areas of the jazz clubs allow - the area in front of the stage with tables, upstairs gallery , a lateral area with a bar at counter - different intense concentration on the concert scene . For Jazzthetik Porgy & Bess is even a " traditional club . "
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