Title: The Jazz Meurkengers Artist: Hendrik Meurkens Label: Cellar Live Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 875531025705 Genre: Jazz Release Date: 2024-03-29 Number of Discs: 1
The chromatic harmonica may look like a simple toy or a novelty but it is actually one of the most difficult of all instruments to play. Stating a bebop melody with the ease of a saxophonist has only been achieved by a small handful of jazz harmonica players, most notably Toots Thielemans and Hendrik Meurkens. For his new project 'The Jazz Meurkengers', Meurkens decided that a new swinging jazz album was long overdue so he contacted pianist Steve Ash, bassist Chris Berger and drummer Andy Watson to help him deliver the hard-bop groove of Winton Kelly, Jimmy Cobb and Wes Montgomery. The album features four standards, five Meurkens originals and special guests Ed Cherry and Nick Hampton.
Tracks: 1.1 A Slow One 1.2 Belgian Beer at Dawn 1.3 A Lullaby for Benny 1.4 Silver's Serenade 1.5 Meurks' Mood 1.6 Dreamsville 1.7 If I Were a Bell 1.8 A Tear for Toots 1.9 Smada
