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Joe Hertenstein's HNH

feat. Pascal Niggenkemper & Thomas Heberer

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"This is Hertenstein's debut as a leader, and what his trio brings here is a pure delight, finding an interesting niche of incredibly rhythmic free improvisation: the music swings from beginning to end, but then with the improvisational and sonic freedom of modern music, never losing the implicit pulse and forward drive that underpins every note they play. The trio leads us through abstract environments but the blues is never far away. "
— Stef Gijssels, 12/2010

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"HNH, the debut recording of drummer/composer Joe Hertenstein with his trio, featuring bassist Pascal Niggenkemper and quarter-tone trumpeter Thomas Heberer. Hertenstein and Heberer make their compositions catchy and visionary at the same time. Each piece here - composed, improvised, or a mix - finds its own form: supple, pulsating, swinging and highly explorative. Trumpet trios are still uncommon, however, HNH confirms that jazz is a universal expression." -Clean Feed Records, album press release, 11/2010


"Enough can’t be said about the toe-tapping swing of Hertenstein and Niggenkemper – the drummer has the subtle complexity of an Ed Blackwell, able to patch infectious rhythms into the most abstract of group improvisations. HNH is definitely the kind of hip little record that might easily pass one by (especially in the vast Clean Feed catalog), but it’s well worth a second look. "
Clifford Allen, 1/2011 Ni Kantu - Musings on Music Criticism, Music Collecting and the Music Industry


"Three well-versed progressive jazz musicians from Germany, now calling New York City home, inject a starkness that uncannily transmutes into an upbeat program on HNH, the debut recording, led by drummer Joe Hertenstein."
Glenn Astarita, 1/2011 AllAboutJazz.com


"The seven pieces flow with barely any pauses and alternate between composers, maintaining the presumed intent of the album: to sound like a set-long free improv without actually being one. Heberer keeps his quartertone trumpet technique generally pure, without only the occasional purr or whoosh included for heft. Hertenstein practices that loose time-keeping so prevalent in Europe that the ignorant use to claim that an entire continent can’t swing. And Niggenkemper, of both French and German background, is oozing between the cracks offered by his trio mates."
Andrey Henkin, 1/2011 ALLABOUTJAZZ-NEW YORK


"The strength of the HNH is its loose texture as well as the free-spiritedness and expressivity each of the musicians brings to the group improvisations. The trio focuses on a raw and sparse sonority that captures the joy of exploration of the unknown. The delicate, impromptu moments on this recording, when the sounds seem ready to collapse at any moment, are clearly musical goals and not merely unfortunate side effects. The trio trusts in its ability to invent freshly at every moment. Overall, HNH is recommended for fans of freely improvised music and for those looking for an adventurous approach to jazz without the heavy handedness of many free jazz groups."
Douglas Detrick, 2/2011 http://jazz.about.com

"HNH create the shape of a performance from scratch, even when playing a written melody. They avoid clichés as a group as well as on their own. Time-play, texture-play and harmonic improvising are equally available at any moment." — Kevin Whitehead (from album linernotes)