Artist description Small group jazz with horns.

Music Style Jazz

Musical Influences Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Kenny Wheeler, Dave Douglas, Booker Little, Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard, Jaco Pastorius, Samuel Barber, Joni Mitchell

Similar Artists Miles Davis, Kenny Wheeler, Jack Walrath, Randy Brecker

Artist History Chris Kase is a jazz trumpeter currently living in Madrid where he maintains a busy performing and recording schedule travelling throughout Spain. He has performed or recorded with such jazz greats as: Bob Mintzer, Don Braden, Adam Nussbaum, Steve Wilson, Kenny Wheeler, Steve Coleman and the Mingus Big Band. His compositions have won awards from ASCAP, the Michigan Council for the Arts and the Spanish General Society of Authors and Editors (SGAE).So far, more than twenty five of Chris's original compositions have been recorded and released on CD. On this page, you'll find some fine examples of his writing abilities, his warm sound and masterful trumpet playing.

Instruments Trumpet, Flugelhorn

Albums As a Leader: Starting Now, Mons Records (1994); Te Espero Aquí, Satchmo Jazz (1999); A Song We Once Knew, Satchmo Jazz (2000)

Press Reviews Reviewed in Jazz Times, Jazziz, Cadence, Ann Arbor News, Vancouver Sun,Cuadernos de Jazz, Más Jazz, La Vanguardia, El Pais, El Mundo...(see web site for press clippings)

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Location Moralzarzal, Madrid - Spain

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