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Let's Face the Music

Reinhardt Winkler

Let's Face the Music

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Format: CD
Label: Challenge Records
UPC: 0608917352627
Catnr: CR 73526
Release date: 03 September 2021
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Challenge Records
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0608917352627
Catalogue number
CR 73526
Release date
03 September 2021

"The result is a phenomenal piece of jazz in very good sound quality."

FWD, 06-1-2022
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About the album

Reinhardt Winkler: I’ve known most of the songs of my new album for a long time. As a child, I got my first jazz records and all the songs were on it. I fell in love with this music, the sound, the instruments, the vibe, I just liked everything. Over the years I’ve always stayed tuned to these particular songs and some of them have become my absolute favorites. So I decided to record these songs with musicians I appreciate so much.
Reinhardt Winkler: Die meisten Songs meines neuen Albums kenne ich schon sehr lange. Als Kind bekam ich meine ersten Jazz-Platten und alle Songs waren darauf. Ich habe mich in diese Musik verliebt, in den Sound, die Instrumente, den Vibe, ich mochte einfach alles. Über die Jahre bin ich immer bei diesen speziellen Songs geblieben und einige davon sind zu meinen absoluten Favoriten geworden. Also beschloss ich, diese Songs mit Musikern aufzunehmen, die ich so sehr schätze.
Reinhardt Winkler ist Jazz-Schlagzeuger, Komponist und Musikpädagoge.
Unterrichtserfahrung:
Seit 1993 unterrichtet er an der Musikschule in Kirchschlag i.d. Buckligen Welt. Außerdem leitete er viele Workshops in Österreich, aber auch im Ausland. Seit 2013 unterrichtet er Schlagzeug am Wimmer Gymnasium in Oberschützen in Kooperation mit der Kunstuniversität Graz.
Als performender Jazz-Schlagzeuger tourt er seit vielen Jahren durch Europa, die USA und Asien und arbeitete mit namhaften Künstlern wie Wolfgang Puschnig, STS, Terry Myers, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, um nur einige zu nennen.



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Reinhardt Winkler (drums)

Reinhardt Winkler is a jazz drummer, composer and music educator. Teaching experience: Since 1993, he has taught at the music school in Kirchschlag i.d. Buckligen Welt. He has also led many workshops in Austria, as well as other countries. Since 2013, he has taught drumming at the Wimmer Gymnasium in Oberschützen in cooperation with the Kunstuniversität Graz. As a performing jazz drummer, he has toured for many years throughout Europe, the USA, and Asia, and worked with cutting edge artists such as Wolfgang Puschnig, STS, Terry Myers, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, to name just a few.
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Reinhardt Winkler is a jazz drummer, composer and music educator.

Teaching experience: Since 1993, he has taught at the music school in Kirchschlag i.d. Buckligen Welt. He has also led many workshops in Austria, as well as other countries. Since 2013, he has taught drumming at the Wimmer Gymnasium in Oberschützen in cooperation with the Kunstuniversität Graz.

As a performing jazz drummer, he has toured for many years throughout Europe, the USA, and Asia, and worked with cutting edge artists such as Wolfgang Puschnig, STS, Terry Myers, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, to name just a few.


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Harry Allen (tenor saxophone)

Gene Lees writes, 'Stan Getz was once asked his idea of the perfect tenor saxophone soloist. His answer was, 'My technique, Al Cohn's ideas, and Zoot's time.' The fulfillment of that ideal may well be embodied in thirty-year-old Harry Allen.' BMG recording artist Harry Allen has over twenty recordings to his name. Three of Harry's CDs have won Gold Disc Awards from Japan's Swing Journal Magazine, and his CD Tenors Anyone? won both the Gold Disc Award and the New Star Award. His recordings have made the top ten list for favorite new releases in Swing Journal Magazine's reader's poll and Jazz Journal International's critic's poll for 1997, and Eu Nao Quero Dancar (I Won't Dance), the third Gold Disc Award...
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Gene Lees writes, "Stan Getz was once asked his idea of the perfect tenor saxophone soloist. His answer was, 'My technique, Al Cohn's ideas, and Zoot's time.' The fulfillment of that ideal may well be embodied in thirty-year-old Harry Allen." BMG recording artist Harry Allen has over twenty recordings to his name. Three of Harry's CDs have won Gold Disc Awards from Japan's Swing Journal Magazine, and his CD Tenors Anyone? won both the Gold Disc Award and the New Star Award. His recordings have made the top ten list for favorite new releases in Swing Journal Magazine's reader's poll and Jazz Journal International's critic's poll for 1997, and Eu Nao Quero Dancar (I Won't Dance), the third Gold Disc Award winner, was voted second for album of the year for 1998 by Swing Journal Magazine‚s reader‚s poll.
Harry has performed at jazz festivals and clubs worldwide, frequently touring the United States, Europe, and the Far East. He has performed with Rosemary Clooney, Ray Brown, Hank Jones, Frank Wess, Flip Phillips, Scott Hamilton, Harry 'Sweets' Edison, Kenny Burrell, Herb Ellis, John Pizzarelli, Bucky Pizzarelli, Gus Johnson, Jeff Hamilton, Terry Gibbs, Warren Vache, and has recorded with Tony Bennett, Johnny Mandel, Ray Brown, Tommy Flanagan, James Taylor, Sheryl Crow, Kenny Barron, Dave McKenna, Dori Caymmi, Larry Goldings, George Mraz, Jake Hanna, and Al Foster, among others.
Harry is featured on many of John Pizzarelli's recordings including the soundtrack and an on-screen cameo in the feature film The Out of Towners starring Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn. He has also done a series of commercials for ESPN starring Robert Goulet.
Harry was born in Washington D.C. in 1966, and was raised in Los Angeles, CA and Burrillville, RI. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in music in 1988 from Rutgers University in New Jersey, and currently resides in New York City.

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Boris Kozlov (bass)

“Kozlov is one of the anchors of modern jazz' Todd Barkan 2 times Grammy Award winning acoustic and electric bassist, composer and arranger, Boris Kozlov has been on New York and international jazz scene for the past 20 years. Currently serving as a Bassist, Arranger and Musical Director for Mingus Big Band, Mingus Dynasty and The Orchestra, as well as leading his own projects, he has also been a first-call bassist for such important jazz acts as Michael Brecker, John Blake, Ray Barretto's 'New World Spirit', Lew Tabackin, David Kikoski, Alex Sipiagin, Jean -Michel Pilc and many others. Boris Kozlov was born in Moscow ,USSR on December 5, 1967 . Having a chance to go to Children's Music School to study piano...
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“Kozlov is one of the anchors of modern jazz" Todd Barkan 2 times Grammy Award winning acoustic and electric bassist, composer and arranger, Boris Kozlov has been on New York and international jazz scene for the past 20 years. Currently serving as a Bassist, Arranger and Musical Director for Mingus Big Band, Mingus Dynasty and The Orchestra, as well as leading his own projects, he has also been a first-call bassist for such important jazz acts as Michael Brecker, John Blake, Ray Barretto's 'New World Spirit', Lew Tabackin, David Kikoski, Alex Sipiagin, Jean -Michel Pilc and many others.
Boris Kozlov was born in Moscow ,USSR on December 5, 1967 . Having a chance to go to Children's Music School to study piano for 7 years, he fell in love with the bass and won Gnesin Music Academy competition to enter college at the age of 15 on electric bass guitar. While being influenced by rock and classical music, he took interest in jazz at 17 and went on to study acoustic bass with a notable bassist Anatoly Sobolev. Upon graduation in 1987 with Diploma of Honor at the age of 19, he served mandatory 2 years in the Soviet Army, where he had to play tuba and other brass instruments besides basses in the military band.
Once out of the Army, he was hired by the State owned 'Melodia' Studio Ensemble in 1989 and proceeded to record more than 40 albums with them as well as many other Soviet jazz artists. At the same time he continued his studies at The State Academy of Music. At the First USSR Competition of Jazz Soloists in 1990 he won The Grand Prix as well as a special prize for his original composition. After winning the first spot in Young Musician category in USSR Jazz Journal in 1991 he decided to move to New York. The self-study continued in a specific NY jazz environment ,where he was eventually hired by Hassan Williams and Terry Gibbs/Buddy De Franco Band and later by : saxophonists Bobby Watson, Bob Berg , Benny Golson, James Moody, Ronnie Cuber, John Stubblefield, Ravi Coltrane, Seamus Blake, Donny McCaslin .
trumpeters Dizzy Reese, Phillip Harper, Brian Lynch ( Grammy 2007), Alex Sipiagin,Ray Vega pianists Eddie Palmieri, Walter Bishop Jr., Michel Petrucciani, Arturo O'Farrill, Michel Legrand, Stanley Cowell, Jon Ballantyne, George Colligan, Orrin Evans, Edward Simon, Helen Sung, Joey Calderazzo vibraphonists Joe Locke, Bill Ware; guitarists Mark Whitfield, David Gilmore, Adam Rogers, Jack Wilkins, Ximo Tebar drummers Tommy Campbell, Victor Jones, Marlon Simon, Victor Lewis, Jonathan Blake, Jeff 'Tain' Watts, Ali Jackson, Antonio Sanches; vocalists Jay Mc Govern, Urszula Dudziak, Monday Michiru; trombonists Conrad Herwig, Robin Eubanks, Andy Hunter; trombonist/vocalist Frank Lacy’s Experience and the funk- jazz band NewHypeJazz After sharing a stage with McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Cobb, Maceo Parker, Jimmy Smith, Henry Butler, Toots Thielemans & Clark Terry on multiple occasions and playing on 9 Grammy nominated albums plus the Grammy winning 'Simpatico' -in addition to the other 160 albums, having few of his Scores published, Boris continues to serve as an MD for all of the Mingus Dynasty projects( winning his 2nd Grammy with them in 2010) ,touring and recording extensively with multitude of different other bands ,as well as doing international work with his own "Malfunction Alibi". He also performs solo bass and teaches master classes around the world following the release of his acoustic solo album " Double Standard".

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Wolfgang Puschnig (alto saxophone)

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The result is a phenomenal piece of jazz in very good sound quality.
FWD, 06-1-2022

Winkler is not a drummer who presents his listeners with passionate unbridled solos. (...) That also makes this CD a pleasure for the non-drum fan. CDs like this Let's face the music are (almost) no longer made.
De Nieuwe Muze, 07-12-2021

The result is a phenomenal piece of jazz in very good sound quality
Music Emotion, 15-11-2021

Overall, this is a pleasing set
Syncopated Times, 30-10-2021

On this album you can enjoy a superior group of musicians.
Rootstime, 30-9-2021

Winkler has opted for a modest mainstream approach, without exuberant bluff: less is more.
Jazzism, 23-9-2021

There is much to hear on this album that confirms the great potential of Reinhardt Winkler and the accompanying musicians. You can feel how the soloists follow the voice of the leader without giving up their own personality.
Jazzfun, 17-9-2021

An opus that can be listened to with pleasure, especially by fans of the mainstream.
JazzMania, 10-9-2021

An opus that can be listened to with pleasure, especially by fans of the mainstream.
Jazzhalo, 10-9-2021

... On it you can hear mainly pieces from the "Great American Songbook" (for example Benny Goodman's "Don't Be That Way" or the titular "Let's Face The Music And Dance"), which the five musicians and one singer bring in changing lineups with a fine swinging noblesse and aesthetically expressive nonchalance that it is a pleasure to listen. Chapeau!
Jazzthing, 25-8-2021

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