[Harp-L] New jazz harmonica recordings from Hermine Deurloo

[Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dutch jazz harmonica player Hermine Deurloo has a new CD soon to be released under the title Glass Fish.

You can see/hear some of the tunes performed live, and also hear her discuss them in a short documentary.

Hermine is an interesting contrast to Grégoire Maret. Her vocabulary reflects echoes of Toots more often than Maret, but she puts it to her own uses. Like Grégoire, she's a modern player with her own ideas about harmony, rhythm, and composition. Again, this tends to translate into a cooler, more oblique approach than you might hear from Toots, but then that's a general feature of current jazz anyway.

http://www.herminedeurloo.com/2012/09/new-film-about-my-cd-glass-fish/


http://youtu.be/VnHEVtEe1gI


http://youtu.be/u5jybeAo8Fo


http://youtu.be/udCzMivLGMk


While she doesn't have the CV of playing with American stars that Maret does (or the US status that would open the door to playing in the US easily), she's quite active in Europe with some of the larger names there (Al Jarreau, Candy Dulfer, Trintje Van Oosterhuis), as well as in the avant-garde community as part of the Willem Breuker Kollektief.

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