News
NOVEMBER 2024
NEW ALBUM OUT NOW!
Music for percussion quartet and big band, featuring:
Patricia Brennan: Vibraphone, Marimba
Matt Moran: Marimba, Vibraphone
John Hollenbeck: Drumset, composition and arrangements.
Marcio Doctor - Hand drums & percussion
NDR Bigband conducted by JC Sanford.
Listen and download on BANDCAMP
DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE says: “This recording finds one of the most inventive big bands in the world meeting one of jazz’s most gifted composers. The results are fantastic… Mr. Hollenbeck and NDR Bigband deliver an extremely satisfying experience. Put the headphones on, lean back and enjoy.”
SEPTEMBER 2024
Concerts, recordings and collaborations coming up with the NDR Big Band featuring Lenine, Nikki Iles, Pablo Martin Caminero, Moises Sanchez, Borja Barrueta, Golnar Shayhar, Kinan Azmeh, Luigi Grasso, Frederik Köster, Trish Clowes, Evi Filippou, Tim Hagans, Darcy James Argue, Michael Gibbs, Charlie Bates, and with the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, etc.
NOVEMBER 2023
Concerts with the NDR Big Band featuring composer, arranger, and conductor Nikki Iles at the London Jazz Festival and at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg presenting our brand new album “Face to Face”.
NDR Big Band live at the Cadogan Hall at the London Jazz Festival 2023.
Photo ©Tatiana Gorilovsky
Nikki Iles & the NDR Big Band. A LOVE OF IMPERFECT THINGS
livestream of the concert at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg.
Upcoming concert with the NDR Big Band featuring composer and trumpet player Tim Hagans in Hamburg as well as studio recordings featuring John Hollenbeck, Patricia Brennan, Matt Moran, Percy Pursglove, Florian Weber, and Jim Black among others.
DECEMBER 2022
“Las cosas de la vida” recordings at the WDR studios with Vince Mendoza, Raul Midón and the WDR Big Band.
Concerts and recordings coming up in 2022 with Nikki Iles, Mike Walker, Ian Thomas, Omar Sosa, Ernesto Simpson and the NDR Big Band and with Vince Mendoza, Raul Midón and the WDR Big Band.
OCTOBER 2022
Performances of “Music for Percussion Quartet and Big Band” composed by John Hollenbeck in Hannover and Hamburg together with the NDR Big Band conducted by JC Sanford and with Patty Brennan, Matt Moran, and John Hollenbeck as guest soloists.
SEPTEMBER 2022
Performances at the Ambleside Festival in the UK together with Mike Walker, Gwilym Simcock, Laurence Cottle, Ian Thomas, Norma Winstone, Nikki Iles, Hermine Deurloo, Frank Harrison, Tim Garland, Zsófia Boros, Asaf Sirkis, Steve Watts and The Impossible Gentlemen.
JUNE 2022
Performance of “Far Reaching Dreams of Mortal Souls” composed by Percy Pursglove at the Rolf-Liebermann-Studio in Hamburg. Soloists of the NDR Big Band + NDR Vokalensemble + guests.
Guest appearance as a soloist on “Omphalo Centric Lecture” by Australian composer Nigel Westlake on “HAMBURG” the latest album (CD/DVD) by the Elbtonal Percussion Quartet .
Interview on Morten Lund’s podcast “Trommernes Sjæl” (The soul of the drums). After a very kind introduction in Danish we start our conversation in English at around 3:30 minutes into it.
LOOP POOL PERCUSSION, a brand new and very personal sample library, developed in collaboration with SOUNDDUST - the British makers of some of the finest virtual instruments - is now available.
Find out more here.
Video and CD recording with ELBTONAL PERCUSSION coming soon.
LATEST ALBUMS
STORYTELLERS by Luciana Souza, Vince Mendoza and the WDR big band
SANCTUARY by Michael Moore and the NDR Big Band
SOUNDSCAPES by Bob Mintzer and the WDR Big Band
EM.PERIENCE by Fabia Mantwill Orchestra
A CONVERSATION by Tim Hagans and the NDR Big Band
HAMBURG by Elbtonal Percussion Quartet
FLOW by Kinan Azmeh and the NDR Big Band
ENDORSEMENTS
PAISTE cymbals and gongs, VIC FIRTH sticks and mallets, REMO hand-drums, BLACK SWAMP PERCUSSION accessories, DEM’STICKS brushes and SCHLAGWERK frame drums.
