John Hollenbeck (musician)

John Hollenbeck ( born June 19, 1968) is an American jazz drummer and composer, who acts as a high school teacher in Berlin since 2005.

Life and work

Hollenbeck studied percussion and jazz composition at the Eastman School of Music. He was in the 1990s a reputation as a versatile drummer, who also appeared with big bands such as Bob Brook Meyers New Art Orchestra, the Village Vanguard Orchestra, Graz Big Band and WDR big band as with the modern jazz musicians Fred Hersch and Kenny Wheeler, the trumpeter Cuong Vu band of the Vietnamese, the klezmer groups by David Krakauer and Frank London and the singer Meredith Monk, with the Colombians Antonio Arnedo, the Argentine Fernando Tarres and ( at Carnegie Hall ) with pianist Pablo Ziegler Astor Piazzolla.

Since the early 2000s, he worked with his own band, The Claudia Quintet with Chris Speed ​​( sax ), Matt Moran (vibraphone ), Ted Reichman ( accordion) and Drew Gress ( bass), with whom he has produced seven albums until 2014. 1998 his composition The Shape of Spirit was listed for wind ensemble at the label Mons. The following year he composed for Bob Brookmeyer Processional and Desiderata. The Cloud of Unknowing, a commissioned work for the Bamberg Choir was started in 2001 by the label Edel Classics. For the Windsbacher boys' choir, he composed humbly ask. The Orchestre National de Jazz under the direction of Daniel Yvinec In 2010, some of his works taken up (Shut Up and Dance ).

Hollenbeck is a professor of drums, percussion and ensemble at the Jazz Institute Berlin. Furthermore, he can be heard on albums by Scott Fields, Tony Malaby, John Enders, Henning Sieverts, Anette von Eichel, Jürgen Friedrich ( Mono Suite ) and Anna Webber.

Prizes and awards

Hollenbeck received several grants and commissions, including the National Endowment Grant ( 1994) and Meet the Composer 's Grant (1995 and 2001). From the Jazz Journalists Association, he was nominated as Up and Coming Jazz Musician of the Year (2004 and 2006) and Composer of the Year (2006 ) by Downbeat Magazine as a Rising Star Composer (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 ), Rising Star Jazz Artist ( 2006), Rising Star Arranger (2006) and Rising Star Big Band (2006). His album Songs I Like a Lot with the hr-Bigband 2014 was nominated for a Grammy in the category "Best instrumental arrangement Accompanying vocals ".

Disco Graphical Notes

  • No images with Ray Anderson, Theo Bleckmann, Rick DiMuzio, Ellery Eskelin, David Liebman, Ben Monder, Tim Sessions and David Taylor, 2001
  • Theo Bleckmann / John Hollenbeck Duo: Static Still, 2002
  • Quartet Lucy ( with Theo Bleckmann, Dan Willis, Jonas Tauber and Skúli Sverrisson ), 2002
  • The Claudia Quintet, 2002
  • The Claudia Quintet: I, Claudia, 2004
  • John Hollenbeck and Jazz Bigband Graz: Joys & Desires, 2004
  • John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble: A Blessing, 2005 Omnitone
  • The Claudia Quintet: Semi-Formal, 2005
  • Jorrit Dijkstra John Hollenbeck: Sequence, 2006
  • Rainbow Jimmies (2008, with The Claudia Quintet, The Youngstown Percussion Collective and Saxophone Quartet, The Ethos Percussion Group and Matt Moran and Todd Reynolds )
  • John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble Eternal Interlude, 2009 with Tony Kadleck, Jon Owens, Dave Ballou, Laurie Frink, Rob Hudson, Mike Christianson, Alan Ferber, Jacob Garchik, Ben Kono, Jeremy Viner, Bohdan Hilash, Tony Malaby, Dan Willis, Ellery Eskelin, Gary Versace, Kermit Driscoll, Matt Moran, John Ferrari, Theo Bleckmann, JC Sanford
  • The Claudia Quintet: Royal Toast, 2010
  • The Claudia Quintet: What Is the Beautiful, 2011?
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