Hill and Hollow Presents: Tim Collins and Quadro Nuevo
Schedule
Sun Oct 13 2024 at 03:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
23 Brinkerhoff Street, 25 Brinkerhoff Street, Plattsburgh, NY, United States, New York 12901 | Plattsburgh, NY
Plattsburgh native, based in Munich, Germany for more than a decade, vibes wizard Tim Collins enjoys a thriving career performing jazz throughout Europe. He is coming to the USA with Quadro Nuevo, one of his favorite ensembles with whom he frequently collaborates and tours. Quadro Nuevo is a two-time winner of the ECHO award as “best live act of the year,” the German Jazz Award, and a gold record.
Tim Collins has been called a “world-class vibes player” (CJSR Canada), “a distinctive vibraphone voice” (Radio One Australia), a “musician of fire” (Washington Post) and “nothing less than exemplary” (Downbeat). His music has been described as “thoughtful, probing composition” (Downbeat), “universal and vibrant” (Blogcritics.org) and “stunning sophisticated jazz” (PBS Australia). Tim currently teaches at the Neue Jazzschool München-Pasing and the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst (Vienna). Tim’s fifth album “For Good People” was released in February 2023 by GLM Music, and features Matthias Bublath on Hammond Organ and Christian Lettner on drums. His previous four albums: “Uncertainty,” “Castles and Hilltops,” “Fade,” and “Valcour” have received widespread critical acclaim. A few of the renowned jazz musicians with whom Tim has toured, performed and recorded include John Ellis, John Hollenbeck, Ralph Alessi, Marty Ehrlich, Jody Redhage, Nasheet Waits, Hector Martignon, George Porter Jr., Ben Monder, Donny McCaslin, Joel Frahm, Ingrid Jensen, Aaron Parks, Antonio Sanchez, Aaron Goldberg, Will Vinson, Danny Grissett, Mike Moreno and Charlie Hunter.
“Mare” (Latin, pronounced MA-ray) is the “sea.” Mare is the sound of waves becoming music. Mare is the southern sea breeze that has always inspired the imagination of Europeans. Mare shines with all the beguiling tones of an unknown paradise and smells of “la dolce vita,” ripe lemons and yellow bikinis. The Mediterranean lightness of being has undoubtedly always been a defining feature of Quadro Nuevo’s instrumental art: Italian tangos, French valse, Aegean myth melodies, daring driving songs along a sunlit coastal road, oriental grooves, Brazilian flavor and Neapolitan hit songs, all serving as fun vehicles for joyfully improvised musical adventure trips. Quadro Nuevo was inspired by extensive travels: discovering musical jewels in the squares and shores of the south. The spirited, thoroughbred musicians have been touring countries around the world since 1996 and have given around 3,500 concerts so far. They carried their songs from Upper Bavaria to Bari, across the Balkans through the Middle East to Cairo, from Buenos Aires to Hong Kong. The venues are as diverse as the roots of their music: the ensemble is not only a guest at festivals and in renowned concert halls such as New York’s Carnegie Hall, but the gambling-addicted virtuosos also travel through the Mediterranean south as street musicians and encourage people to dance as a nightly tango band. Quadro Nuevo received the ECHO twice as “best live act of the year”, the German Jazz Award and a gold record.
Where is it happening?
23 Brinkerhoff Street, 25 Brinkerhoff Street, Plattsburgh, NY, United States, New York 12901
