Herbert Joos renowned for his work with the Vienna Art Orchestra & The Philosophy of the Flugelhorn passes

Jazz trumpeter and flugel player Herbert Joos died on Saturday in a Baden-Baden hospital. He was 79. The Karlsruhe-born player who early in his career studied double bass was a multi-instrumentalist across the brass spectrum his choice of …

Published: 10 Dec 2019. Updated: 3 years.

Jazz trumpeter and flugel player Herbert Joos died on Saturday in a Baden-Baden hospital. He was 79. The Karlsruhe-born player who early in his career studied double bass was a multi-instrumentalist across the brass spectrum his choice of instruments sometimes including cornet and the specialist alp horn.

In the 1960s he played with the Karlsruhe Modern Jazz Quintet and became best known for his work later inside the mighty avant garde Vienna Art Orchestra, one of the world's best ever big bands in its day.

Joos album The Philosophy of the Flugelhorn recorded in 1973 at the famous Bauer tonstudio in Ludwigsburg on which were overdubbed among other instruments fluegelhorn, bass, bass recorder, bamboo flute, mellophone, trumpet, alto horn, vibes and even field recorded birds, was the first of two albums he made for the ECM associated label JAPO, with Daybreak following.

Read a (German language) tribute in the Stuttgarter Zeitung.

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Reading the leaves Get the Blessing return. The Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry-loving ones note: ''Way, way back in 2008, very soon after the release of our first album All Is Yes we played at the much missed Big Chill Festival. ''It turned out …

Published: 9 Dec 2019. Updated: 3 years.

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Reading the leaves Get the Blessing return.

The Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry-loving ones note:

''Way, way back in 2008, very soon after the release of our first album All Is Yes we played at the much missed Big Chill Festival.

''It turned out that the tent adjacent to our stage had just hosted the great John Hegley, a national-treasure-in-waiting if ever there was one, and he was later asked to recommend a track for the Big Chill charity compilation record released later in the year. He chose one of ours.

''A correspondence developed and before we knew it, we were all in the studio together with 'Toggle Buttons' the fine result. So it's fitting that this, one of our earliest collaborations, should be the first release from a forthcoming collection Rarer Teas, a selection of hand-picked and previously unreleased items from the GTB archives. We went on to produce a handful more tracks and appeared live on stage with John (and he with us) a number of times.''