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Nikolaj Hess NYC Quartet featuring Gerald Cleaver (US), Jayla Chee (US) & Marc Mommaas (NL/US)

NH brings together two exciting New York collaborations in an imaginative, virtuosic, intensely grooving super quartet.

The undertone of the music is playful and communicating, with a melodic nerve and captivating groove and energy. Juilliard’s young super bass talent Jayla Chee delivers hypnotic and ultra-musical bass playing, intertwining seamlessly with Cleaver’s unmatched, sublimely swinging and deeply nuanced drumming, forms a pulsating sounding board and communication with Hess and Mommaas' beautiful expressive lyrical explorations on a journey of evocative ballads, hypnotic grooves and swing, cinematic soundscapes and singing melody lines.

It's a genuine musical New York hybrid alloy with musicians with background from Louisiana, Paris, Amsterdam, Copenhagen and New York, gathered in Hess's Nordic perspective wit...

English:

Nikolaj Hess NYC Quartet featuring Gerald Cleaver (US), Jayla Chee (US) & Marc Mommaas (NL/US)

NH brings together two exciting New York collaborations in an imaginative, virtuosic, intensely grooving super quartet.

The undertone of the music is playful and communicating, with a melodic nerve and captivating groove and energy. Juilliard’s young super bass talent Jayla Chee delivers hypnotic and ultra-musical bass playing, intertwining seamlessly with Cleaver’s unmatched, sublimely swinging and deeply nuanced drumming, forms a pulsating sounding board and communication with Hess and Mommaas' beautiful expressive lyrical explorations on a journey of evocative ballads, hypnotic grooves and swing, cinematic soundscapes and singing melody lines.

It's a genuine musical New York hybrid alloy with musicians with background from Louisiana, Paris, Amsterdam, Copenhagen and New York, gathered in Hess's Nordic perspective with inspiration from West Africa and well-established roots in NYC.The music is Hess's award-winning compositions mixed with visits from Ellington, Monk and other jazz classics. This is American/European jazz of the highest order.

Lineup:
Nikolaj Hess: piano
Marc Mommaas: tenor sax
Jayla Chee: bas
Gerald Cleaver: drums....

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