NEW CD of Wolfgang Muthspiel 4tet
After many years of working mainly in the Trio format, Wolfgang has invited Swiss pianist Jean-Paul Brodbeck to join the Band. Their first album EARTH MOUNTAIN will be released mid-April 2008.
TIME OUT UK voted GLOW
... the album Wolfgang produced with Dhafer Youssef for material records, into their "Albums Of The Year" List for 2008.
jims 2008
this summer wolfgang will be teaching a workshop in salzburg austria.
it takes place between July 14th and 18th 2008. find out more at JIMS.AT
Friendly Travelers Live DVD and CD
in February 2008 material records is releasing the DVD and CD of several live concerts by Wolfgang Muthspiel and Brian Blade. The concert footage, mixed in stereo as well as 5.1 surround sound, captures great moments of the Duo's live performances. The package includes an interview and a road movie, as well as the audio CD of the live show.
The young Austrian Pianist Martin Reiter is releasing his excellent album ALMA on material records in September 2007.
The album features an outstanding ensemble with Alegre Correa, the Brasilian singer Ana Paula da Silva, the master trumpet player Matthieu Michel, to name a few.
Friendly Travelers by Brian Blade and Wolfgang Muthspiel is released and is getting great reviews.
The English Magazin Jazz Review has voted Bright Side, the latest release of Wolfgang Muthspiel Trio on Material Records, into their Top Albums of the year 2006.
Wolfgang Muthspiels CD Bright Side was voted Jazz Album of the year in Uk's MOJO Magazine.
Bright Side was also selected for All About Jazz Best of 2006
Mike Holober's wonderful album WISH LIST has finally come out. It is available through sonsofsound.com. The great lineup (Blade, Patitucci, Ries, Muthspiel, Holober) does justice to Mike's advanced and haunting compositional language.
Wolfgang und Christian Muthspiel were awarded a German Jazz Prize at the Philharmonie Essen, the Jazz Pott 2006, for their work together. It spans a period of over 20 years.
Brian Blade/ Wolfgang Muthspiel Duo
Right now Brian and Wolfgang are developing their new recording for material records. Brian plays some guitar as well as the drums. Many new songs have been born in the week of rehearsals. The CD is scheduled to come out in March 2007, followed by a European tour, booked by Ellen Windholz, Jazzbrain.
Wolfgang has recently been invited to participate in a film project around the fantastic and inspirational Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour entitled Return to Goree, which will be directed by Pierre-Yves Borgeaud. The project happened in march 2006 and included concerts in Luxemburg and Dakar. The movie is expected to be released in the fall of of 2006.
Swiss director Pierre Yves Borgeaud has been awarded the top prize at the Locarno Film Festival for his outstanding work. He has recently made a movie about the Muthspiel brothers called family music. The film puts images to the music of Wolfgang and Christian, partly from super eight footage of their childhood. It is a fine, poetic and highly artistic reflection on the topic of families. The movie will be shown on 3Sat in Austria, Germany and Switzerland on Saturday 11.06.2005, around 22:15 p.m.
Students, who are interested in joining the program should contact the school.
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A Jury from 21 European countries has decided to award Wolfgang Muthspiel the "European Jazzprize 2003".
Statement of the Jury
The reasons for Wolfgang Muthspiel's nomination for the European Jazz Prize are many-sided, but two seem to be the essence of Wolfgang's musicianship:
quality and continuity!
Quality and continuity in the ways his career proceeded and still develops, no matter what musical
settings he chooses for his expressions - the trio with jazz stars Marc Johnson and Brian Blade, the duo with singer Rebekka Bakken or the longstanding collaboration with his brother Christian his musical standards in improvisation and composition are since many years on the highest level.
Touring Europe successfully with the above mentioned (or other) projects throughout the last twelve month, made Wolfgang by far the most visible Austrian jazz musician in Europe and helped to increase his reputation as one of the most exciting and uncompromising guitarists around today.
As an artist, who not only in geographical, but as well in musical terms is without borders, he is the perfect winner of the European Jazz Prize.
Wolfgang and the choir of the Zisterzienser monks
"Bearing Fruit", a commissioned composition of Wolfgang on the basis of Gregorian Chants, was premiered in Krems, Austria on April 27 2002 and
recorded for national radio. The piece features 8 singers and 4 instrumentalists and was released on CD in June 2003.
photo: © Miguel Dieterich
Wolfgang Muthspiel is colaborating with renowned architect Günter Domenig on a project at the famous "stonehouse" in carinthia. End of August 2003 a concert was produced in and for that remarkable architectural sculpture in Carinthia. A CD on material records called "stonehouse" will be presented there, featuring musicians such as Dhafer Youssef, Mathieu Michel on trumpet, and the Norwegian singer Rebekka Bakken.
Rerelease "Black and Blue" out now!
Universal rereleases "Black and Blue"
April 2002: The 92 recording of Wolfgang featuring Tom Harrell, George Garzone, Larry Grenadier, Alex Deutsch, Don Alias is being rereleased in a remastered version on Universal.
The Best Guitar Book Ever (for all instruments)
Mick Goodrick has given the music community a text about voicings that is already considered the bible on the subject.
The Book is entitled: Mr. Goodchord's Almanac of Guitar Voice-Leading for the Year 2001 and Beyond. For Info and orders go to www.mrgoodchord.com