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Times of Innocence

Daniel Schenker Quintet feat. Chris Cheek

Times of Innocence

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Format: CD
Label: TCB The Montreux Jazz Label
UPC: 0725095364027
Catnr: TCB 36402
Release date: 10 January 2020
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TCB The Montreux Jazz Label
UPC
0725095364027
Catalogue number
TCB 36402
Release date
10 January 2020

"... A clear, honest, gentle tone is the basis of his improvisations..."

Jazz n More, 11-3-2020
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For his new album, Schenker chose a quintet line-up as heard on many classic hard bop and modern jazz recordings. He says he likes to think of duos – Miles Davis/John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy/Booker Little and Dexter Gordon/Woody Shaw – although he doesn’t see himself as the executor of an estate. Schenker’s music is distinguished by its openness to the new, by its formal ambition, and by a broad palette of sounds and moods. This is nowhere more sensuously evident than on his new album, Times of Innocence, on which he performs with the American tenor and soprano saxophonist Chris Cheek as well as with his Swiss colleagues Stefan Aeby on the piano, Dominique Girod on bass and Elmar Frey on drums.
Für sein neues Album hat Schenker die Form des Quintetts gewählt, wie man sie in vielen Klassikern aus Hard Bop und Modern Jazz hört. Er denke gerne an Duos, sagt er – Miles Davis/John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy/Booker Little und Dexter Gordon/Woody Shaw – doch er sehe sich nicht als Testamentsvollstrecker. Schenkers Musik hebt sich durch ihre Offenheit für Neues ab, ihr Formstreben und eine breite Klang- und Stimmungspalette. Dies wird nirgendwo sinnhaft deutlicher als auf seinem neuen Album Times of Innocence, auf dem er mit dem amerikanischen Tenor- und Sopransaxophonisten Chris Cheek sowie seinen Schweizer Kollegen Stefan Aeby am Klavier, Dominique Girod am Bass und Elmar Frey an den Drums zusammenarbeitet.

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Daniel Schenker Quintet

Daniel Schenker (*1963) received his first trumpet lessons at the age of ten. After studying computer sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH), he was awarded his concert diploma by the Swiss Jazz School in Berne. Since the 1980s, Daniel Schenker has been a sought-after sideman in many Swiss bands and has played in concert and on tour with Kenny Werner, Joe Haider, Bill Holman and many others. He has paid several visits to New York. Schenker’s freelance work as a jazz musician in Switzerland and abroad led to the founding of the Daniel Schenker Quartet in 2001. In the course of time, the quartet found its way to its own, melodic, swinging acoustic music whose...
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Daniel Schenker (*1963) received his first trumpet lessons at the age of ten. After studying computer sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH), he was awarded his concert diploma by the Swiss Jazz School in Berne. Since the 1980s, Daniel Schenker has been a sought-after sideman in many Swiss bands and has played in concert and on tour with Kenny Werner, Joe Haider, Bill Holman and many others. He has paid several visits to New York. Schenker’s freelance work as a jazz musician in Switzerland and abroad led to the founding of the Daniel Schenker Quartet in 2001. In the course of time, the quartet found its way to its own, melodic, swinging acoustic music whose watchword is ‘interplay’ and whose work is characterized by arching forms. After their first album "iridium" (2003, Brambus Records) there followed the CD "soundlines" (2006, TCB Records) with the New York saxophonist Chris Cheek as a guest artist, and "Jardim Botanicô" (2010, Musiques Suisses), which features a greater influence of Brazilian ‘Música popular’.
The sound of the Quartet is defined also by Schenker’s partners: Stefan Aeby is one of the most significant young pianists in French Switzerland and joined the Quartet in 2009; Dominique Girod (bass) and Elmar Frey (drums) are sought-after band musicians in Switzerland. Frey, Girod and Schenker have played together in various formations for more than twenty years.
Since 2013, Schenker is also co-leading the Zurich Jazz Orchestra and played and organised concerts with guests Nelson Faria, Thomas Gansch, Jojo Mayer, Nils Wogram, Bill Holman and others. Schenker teaches at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK).

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Chris Cheek (tenor saxophone)

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Chris Cheek began playing the alto sax at the age of 12. Thanks to a strong public school music program and a highly supportive family, Chris had good educational and performance experiences from the very beginning. While attending Webster University, Chris played with a variety of local Jazz and Blues bands including legendary saxophonist Willie Akins' group and the Bob Kuban Brass. Chris went to Boston in 1988 to attend Berklee College of music where he studied with Herb Pomeroy, Joe Viola and Hal Crook.  Chris moved to New York in 1992 and since then has toured and recorded with Paul Motian, Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, The Bloomdaddies,  and the Orquestra de Jazz de Matosinhos...
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Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Chris Cheek began playing the alto sax at the age of 12. Thanks to a strong public school music program and a highly supportive family, Chris had good educational and performance experiences from the very beginning. While attending Webster University, Chris played with a variety of local Jazz and Blues bands including legendary saxophonist Willie Akins' group and the Bob Kuban Brass. Chris went to Boston in 1988 to attend Berklee College of music where he studied with Herb Pomeroy, Joe Viola and Hal Crook.

Chris moved to New York in 1992 and since then has toured and recorded with Paul Motian, Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, The Bloomdaddies, and the Orquestra de Jazz de Matosinhos . Chris has also played with Bill Frisell, Brian Blade, Lee Konitz, Carla Bley, Tom Harrell, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Frank Carlberg, Eliot Zigmund, Brad Mehldau, Kurt Rosenwinkel, El Muchacho and many others!

Cheek also plays with the Brooklyn Boogaloo Blowout, Rudder, Steve Swallow's Quintet, Guillermo Klein's "Los Guachos", and the newly formed Axis Saxophone Quartet, alongside Josh Redman, Chris Potter and Mark Turner. In addition to appearing on numerous CD's as a sideman, Chris has recorded 4 albums as a leader for Fresh Sound Records. He currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.


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Stefan Aeby (piano)

Elmar Frey (drums)

Daniel Schenker (trumpet)

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Chris Cheek (tenor saxophone)

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Chris Cheek began playing the alto sax at the age of 12. Thanks to a strong public school music program and a highly supportive family, Chris had good educational and performance experiences from the very beginning. While attending Webster University, Chris played with a variety of local Jazz and Blues bands including legendary saxophonist Willie Akins' group and the Bob Kuban Brass. Chris went to Boston in 1988 to attend Berklee College of music where he studied with Herb Pomeroy, Joe Viola and Hal Crook.  Chris moved to New York in 1992 and since then has toured and recorded with Paul Motian, Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, The Bloomdaddies,  and the Orquestra de Jazz de Matosinhos...
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Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Chris Cheek began playing the alto sax at the age of 12. Thanks to a strong public school music program and a highly supportive family, Chris had good educational and performance experiences from the very beginning. While attending Webster University, Chris played with a variety of local Jazz and Blues bands including legendary saxophonist Willie Akins' group and the Bob Kuban Brass. Chris went to Boston in 1988 to attend Berklee College of music where he studied with Herb Pomeroy, Joe Viola and Hal Crook.

Chris moved to New York in 1992 and since then has toured and recorded with Paul Motian, Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, The Bloomdaddies, and the Orquestra de Jazz de Matosinhos . Chris has also played with Bill Frisell, Brian Blade, Lee Konitz, Carla Bley, Tom Harrell, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Frank Carlberg, Eliot Zigmund, Brad Mehldau, Kurt Rosenwinkel, El Muchacho and many others!

Cheek also plays with the Brooklyn Boogaloo Blowout, Rudder, Steve Swallow's Quintet, Guillermo Klein's "Los Guachos", and the newly formed Axis Saxophone Quartet, alongside Josh Redman, Chris Potter and Mark Turner. In addition to appearing on numerous CD's as a sideman, Chris has recorded 4 albums as a leader for Fresh Sound Records. He currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.


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Daniel Schenker (trumpet)

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... A clear, honest, gentle tone is the basis of his improvisations...
Jazz n More, 11-3-2020

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