 |  |  |  | | | | |  | Web Site Overview and Description | ArtistShare is a unique record label in which the audience contributes to the funding of artists’ projects in exchange for exclusive access to artists’ content and service. The focus being on the one thing you can’t download, the one thing that the artist can hold on to, the creative process.
With multiple levels of participation, the audience will have numerous ways to closely follow Ed’s compositions, performances, rehearsals, trombone improvisations and can even broker a personal correspondence with Ed. | | |
| | | | |  | Press Participant Greeting Video | | Meant as an introduction to his new ArtistShare powered website, Ed Neumeister introduces himself and discusses his NeuHat Ensemble project. Through participation the audience can observe the process of putting together this creative musical project. Using footage from the NeuHat Ensemble concert of Wake Up Call at the IAJE Conference in New York last January 2006 and footage from Big Sur and the Oakland hills in California, Neumeister talks about his motivations as a creative musician and composer. | | |
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The quartet's equilibrium is remarkable. Ed Neumeister's group sounds almost chamber-like in its equality, with each touch of the cymbal ringing clear, each plucked bass note throbbing distinctly. Neumeister the composer and player is a master of subtlety and finesse on open or muted horn, and Pauer adds splashes of swirling bright colors with masterful aplomb.
....this is thoughtful, erudite music democratic music, relentlessly beautiful sounds that seem almost suite-like in their interconnectedness.
Reflection shines a very deserved spotlight on a lesser-known talent.
-- Dan McClenaghan, AllAboutJazz.com
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Reflection captures that warm and soft side of jazz with several mellow and introspective tunes showcasing a fine performance by a world-class trombonist/composer and a veteran combo. An enjoyable album that will please the jazz aficionado and the mainstream audience alike.
-- Edward Blanco ejazz.com
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Ed Neumeister's Reflection is quality jazz, easy to digest, softly slick lounge-esque and well-crafted, flowing grooves. You like jazz brass that absolutely avoids brash bellowings and predictably, hip-styled, near-fracks & flashy, triple-tongued sputters? Then by all means and online savvy -- seek, find & grab a copy of Reflection today! Remember that ECM, low-keyed, under-the-radar, classic release Gallery of yesterday? When I heard "Reflection" -- I was totally in ECM Gallery blissville. Great stuff! And yes, the rest of the quartet doth shine as well in a strongly supportive and soloing way.
"Ah, Mr. Nemeister -- your table is ready, sir. Oh, I see, nice horn you have there. The stage is over there. A drink before the show?"
-- ~ John W. Patterson of JazzRock-Radio.com & AllMusicGuide
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"Wake Up Call... the madness of humanity"
Holy shit! This is one amazing piece! Great writing and voicings. Not at all what I expected. You're going to give Third Stream a good name if you're not careful. Bravo, Ed.
Michael Cuscuna
-- Veteran producer of jazz
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In terms of technique, Neumeister can do it all, from exhibiting expansive range; spectacular agility; trills; and old-time, down-home, gut-wrenching effects with the wah-wah mute, something he displays to excellent effect on Jimmy Rowles' "The Peacock." At his best, as on the latter tune, the trombonist is one of the finest of his generation, an underrated giant waiting to be discovered.
-- Steve Loewy, AMG (All Music Guide)
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With New Standards, Neumeister has released a session that breaks down the trombone's stereotype by highlighting its breadth and diverse tonal capabilities
within the framework of a cohesive group sound.
-- Elliott Simon, All About - January 2005
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New Standards works because Prof. Neumeister is one hell of a trombonist, and design-wise, his solos are fanciful reveries (check that mute work on "The Peacocks") that nonetheless boast a steely logic.
-- MACNIE, Village Voice New York City
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Quartet Photos and Ed Neumeister Photos by Linda Gallagher, Stargallag@aol.com
NeuHat Ensemble Photos by Julieta Cervantes, jucervantes@yahoo.com, www.julietacervantes.com
MeisteroMusic staff:
Eva Kim Heu, Ingo Rieber, Charlie Halloran
Contact Ed directly at: Ed@EdNeumeister.com | | |
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