Herb Robertson

Born: February 21, 1951

Herb Robertson is an avant-garde jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist and music producer. He combines a thorough command of traditional and extended techniques with a prodigious imagination.

Born in New Jersey, he began to play trumpet in school during the fifth grade. He was introduced to jazz two years later by his junior high music teacher including Miles Davis. Robertson began collecting jazz records, listening to all styles from Louis Armstrong to the avant-garde and especially the era��s hard bop. In high school he led a quintet that played dances. During 1969-73 he attended the Berklee School Of Music as an instrumental performance major, a period in which his improvisational skills became highly developed

4 Horns & What? �C The Complete American Recordings

By Phillip Haynes

Label: Corner Store Jazz
Released: 2024
Track listing:
CD 1:
A'lil Iowa Get-Down; El-Smoke; Ballad For Heike; Point Period; Atmospheres; Corner Store Strut; Alone; Blues for Israel.
CD 2:
Holler 4 Horns; Out of the Bowels; Sweep; Goofus' Step; Some Sick Slick; Where Now; Adrienne's Jazzmarchrag; Phantoms; Eclipse.
CD 3:
Don Byron intro; Holler4Horns; A Little Iowa Get-Down; Phil Speaks 1; Goofus' Step; Saeta; Phil Speaks 2; West Virginian Blues; Waltz for Gerry (Last Dance); Phil Speaks 3; Eclipse.

Mario Mariotti, ricerca e improvvisazione tra contemporanea e jazz

by Neri Pollastri
December 2, 2024

Trombettista milanese di formazione accademica e dalle diversificate esperienze, appassionato esploratore dei multiformi scenari dell'improvvisazione, Mario Mariotti negli ultimi anni ha proposto lavori diversi tra loro, ma tutti molto interessanti. Abbiamo conversato con lui per conoscere meglio la sua personalit�� artistica. All About Jazz: Comincerei dal tuo interesse per Bill Dixon al quale ti ...

Joe Fonda: From The Source

by Jerome Wilson
May 5, 2024

This is a reissue of an album by bassist Joe Fonda which was originally released in 1997. In his liner notes for this edition, Fonda notes that this session had several unique aspects for the time; the musicians included Brenda Bufalino mostly tap dancing, and Vickie Dodd, a healer and bodyworker, contributing wordless vocals. They worked ...

Chasing The Masters: First Takes Of A Modern Drumming Artist

by David A. Orthmann
April 25, 2024

Chasing The Masters: First Takes Of A Modern Drumming Artist Phil Haynes 296 pagesISBN: #979-886-0200883 Self Published 2023 I recently attended several recitals by instrumentalists, composers, and arrangers from the renowned Jazz Studies Program at William Paterson University. The level of musicianship was uniformly high in these stimulating ...

Simon Nabatov 3 + 2: Verbs

by John Sharpe
February 20, 2024

What constitutes a composition? German-based Russian-born pianist Simon Nabatov makes a convincing case that a simple verbal instruction can suffice on Verbs. It is not a claim he makes himself, but the six supposed improvisations each mines such a distinctive seam that, although spontaneously conceived without melody or other formal arrangement, the initial proposition proves enough. ...

From The Source

By Joe Fonda

Label: Fundacja Sluchaj
Released: 2023
Track listing: Something From The Past; High Tech #1; From The Source; My Song; An Internal Look; No One There At All (Written For Honi Coles).

Phil Haynes: Drummer, Bandleader, Composer & Educator

by Doug Hall
December 15, 2023

Veteran drummer/composer Phillip Haynes is featured on more than 85 releases from numerous American and European record labels. His collaborations include many of the seminal musicians of this generation: saxophonists Anthony Braxton, Ellery Eskelin and Dave Liebman; trumpeters Thomas Heberer, Herb Robertson and Paul Smoker; bassists Mark Dresser, Ken Filiano and Drew Gress; keyboard artists David ...

Ernst Bier - Mack Goldsbury Quartet feat. Herb Robertson & Matthias B?tzel - "A-Live at the A-Trane"

By Ernst Bier

Label: Konnex Records KCD 5113
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Sorry....? - Goldsbury/Robertson/B?tzel/Bier 3:24 2. Flotasia - Herb Robertson 7:43 3. Intending Heart - Mack Goldsbury 6:25 4. Fat Boy Chicago (Ansage) - 5. Fat Boy Chicago - Lindsey Horner 11:48 6. Dukes Voice - Mack Goldsbury 6:53 7. Surgin - Mack Goldsbury 10:09 8. Sorry for what ?! - Goldsbury/Robertson/B?tzel/Bier 3:14

A Silent Way

By Jim Yanda

Label: Corner Store Jazz
Released: 2021
Track listing: Voyager; Search; Spirits; Consciousness; Questions; Stream; Clues; Path; Odyssey; Jungle; Nocturnal; A Silent Way; Possession; Meta; Shaman