STANDARD EDITION DAVID ANGEL (USA) – TENORSAX … · Nocella, Gigi Cifarelli, Chet Baker, Tony...
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Bergstrasse,32 8832 Bennau Tel. +41/79/605 36 69 E-mail:[email protected] STANDARD EDITION DAVID ANGEL (USA) – TENORSAX ALESSANDRO d’EPISCOPO (I) – PIANO LEON DUNCAN (JAM) – ACC.BASS MARC HALBHEER (CH) – DRUMS Booking Contact: © by texit Marc Halbheer Bergstrasse 32 CH - 8836 Bennau Tel.: +41 79 605 36 69 [email protected]
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STANDARD EDITION
DAVID ANGEL (USA) – TENORSAX
ALESSANDRO d’EPISCOPO (I) – PIANO
LEON DUNCAN (JAM) – ACC.BASS
MARC HALBHEER (CH) – DRUMS
Booking Contact: © by texit
Marc HalbheerBergstrasse 32CH - 8836 BennauTel.: +41 79 605 36 69
Bergstrasse,32 8832 Bennau Tel. +41/79/605 36 69 E-mail:[email protected]
STANDARD EDITION
The Name of the Band says it all. It follows the tradition of the great Jazz-Quartets from the Bop- and Cool-Jazz period and is lining up four exceptionalinstrumentalists. With the legendary Saxophonist David Angel (from LosAngeles /USA), Standard Edition has a member that grew up during the"prime time" of this Music and dedicated his life to it.
The material consists of tunes from the American songbook and originalcompositions of the band members. Due to the distinct personalities of thefour musicians and their joy for playing together, the interpreted music staysalways fresh. The band creates an enormously swinging sound whichguarantees a rousing musical experience for the audience.
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DAVID ANGEL
David Angel was born and raised in Los Angeles (USA).
He grew up in an utmost musical environment and picked up the Saxophoneat an early age. At the age of 14 he started playing steady in Jazz- andLatin-bands and gained routine as a performer.
For more then 25 years David worked for the movie and music industrie inHollywood. He is a well-respected composer and arranger and wrote musicfor a vast number of Bands, for Film and TV-Series. (Bonanza, Lassie,Streets of San Francisco, Jerry Lewis, Andy Williams, The Invaders, WoodyHermann Band and many others)
A part from his work as a composer, David kept a busy schedule as a Sax-player. He worked in the bands of. Art Pepper, Bill Perkins, Blue Mitchell,Clare fisher, Richard Davis, Frank Strazzeri, Cat Anderson, Victor Feldman,Kid Orey, and others and worked in the Big Bands of Takisho Akioshi, DaveGrusin, Bud Shank, Bob Brookmeier or Conte Condoli to name a few. He wasin demand as a studio-musician and recorded as a soloist for a lot of records,movie-soundtracks and TV-series.
David Angel also had a successfull teaching-career in Hollywood. For morethen twenty years he gave lectures for composers and arrangers as well asteaching the saxophone. David held classes for studio- and jazz musicians,was leading the sax-class at the Pasadena college, taught composition at theDick Grove School and worked at the Valley College in Los Angeles.
In Europe he was a lecturer for film-music at the I.A.C.P. - Paris and theCultural Institute of Music Paris (award for composer in residence). Helectured at the royal conservatory in Oslo/Norway, the conservatory inTrondheim/Norway and the Moscow State Music Academy/Russia.
Together with Ed Semester he is currently leading the composition andarranging department at the music academy in Lucerne/Switzerland.
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LEON DUNCAN
Leon Duncan was born February 20th 1972 in Kingston Jamaica.
His musical career started at the age of eleven, when he started toaccompany the Church Choir on Guitar. His affinity for the Bass grew and atthe age of 14 he knew he'd found a media through which he could expresshimself. Soon after, Leon started copying bass parts from records of allgenres.
When he was about 15, he started gigging regularly with Stanley Beckfordfrom Stanley and the Turbines as well as other local reggae acts. Nightlyplaying in hotels played an integral role in the eclectic background andapproach towards Leon's bass playing. This enabled him to blend into anymusical situation and preconciously he became a much talked about player.
At eighteen he met world-renowned Guitarist and one of Jamaica's greatestmusic exponents: Ernest Ranglin. Leon was getting a first hand introductionto the jazz idiom in the trio with Carl Mc Leod on Drums. During those years,the trio was a first choice rhythm section for visiting artistes such asCourtney Pine, Pharoah Saunders, Othello Molineaux to name a few.
In 1994 Leon went on a European tour then decided to settle in ZurichSwitzerland where's he's been based since. He connected well with themusic-scene and participated in many projects.
In 2002 Patrice called Leon two days before a scheduled performance at theNyon festival in Switzerland, Leon has since then toured extensively with himall over Europe, USA and Africa.
Leon later had a short tour that same year in France and Germany withanother Jamaican giant Monty Alexander. Then he recorded with Monty onhis Disk entitled "My America" with some of the most prolific names in thebusiness such as John Pizzarelli, Freddy Cole, Kevin Mahogany BobbyThomas Jr. and Desi Jones. He also toured Japan that same year with MontyAlexander.
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ALESSANDRO d'EPISCOPO
Alessandro d'Episcopo was born in Naples on February 1, 1959. Already atthe age of 13, he decided to devote his life to music and to become a jazzmusician. _He succeeded to graduate from high-school while at the sametime he studied classical music at the conservatory of S. Pietro a Majella inNaples.
When he was 20, he moved to Milan, which at the time was the centre of theItalian Jazz. There he worked with musicians such as Tullio de Piscopo, LarryNocella, Gigi Cifarelli, Chet Baker, Tony Scott, Gianni Basso, Billy Cobham,Toots Thielemans etc.
He played at various jazz festivals, e.g. Umbria Jazz, Clusone, S. Anna Arresi(Sardinia), Livorno, Cagliari and Genua. Together with Tullio de Piscopo hecomposed and recorded the music for Pasquale Squitieri's film "Naso diCane" (RAI 1).
Since his early youth he was influenced by Chick Corea and Keith Jarrett asvivid examples of musical versatility and curiosity. At the age of 30, he wentabroad to pursue his musical development and career, studying classicalmusic under Rudolf am Bach in Zurich and Nina Tichman in Cologne.Concurrently, he attended courses of Thierry Lang at the conservatory ofMontreux for two years, obtaining a diploma in Jazz Performance.
He always was and still is eager to explore all the various stylistic directions.Driven to go forward and to experience new dimensions, he studied JazzImprovisation under Charly Banacos (Boston/USA) for many years.
His urge for musical freedom and his enthusiasm for experiments induceAlessandro to participate in most diverse events and to work together withdifferent musicians like George Robert, Franco Ambrosetti, Marianne Racine,Benny Bailey, Peter Appleyard, etc.
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MARC HALBHEER
Marc Halbheer was born in Zurich/Switzerland in 1965.
Soon it showed that his main area of interest was in music. The fascinationfor rhythm was obvious and during his early youth he discovered the passionfor Drums. He continuously developed his skills and became a master onthose instruments.
1988 Marc traveled to Los Angeles (USA) where he studied withtopdrummers like Ralph Humphrey, Joe Porcaro or the longtime FrankZappa-bandmember Ed Man. Soon he had opportunities to work with jazz-and latinbands and played a lot of club-dates in southern California. Duringthat time he became friends with his longtime musical pears YiotisKiourtsoglou (GR), (IL) and (CH/USA)
On his return to Zurich (CH) in 1991 Marc soon became one of the busiestdrummers on the scene. Since 1992 he has a professorship for drums andrhythm at the Music University Lucerne (CH).
In his work, Marc consequently follows the multiple aspects of Music. As oneof the most versatile musicians in Switzerland he influenced and initiated aremarkable number of projects.
Aside from his enthusiasm for jazz he is involved in the music of differentcultural backgrounds. On his frequent trips to Greece with EXIT he becamefamiliar with the music of the Balkans. Together with Chinese Erhu-MasterXiao Jing Wang he started the band Yuan Wei in 2001 and started exploringthe Asian traditions.
One of the most important recent experiences for Marc is the work with theTienShanSwiss-Express, founded in 2002. This group assembles 20 artistsfrom Kyrgyzstan, Khakasia (South Siberia), Mongolia and Central Europe.
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The most successful appearances of the TSSE include Concerts on Festivalsin Europe (a.o. Paleo Nyon, Forum 2004 Barcelona) and extensive touringthrough Central Asia and Mongolia.
Marc's history also includes touring and recording internationally withMathias Rüegg's Vienna Art Orchestra, EXIT, Tillman and Ambient GrooveArtists, Gotthard, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, John Voirol's Flow'n-Jazz, HeiriKänzig, Christy Doran, 's Paralpin, Arild Anderson, Standard Edition, YuanWei, TSSE and many more.
