01.01.1967
Instrument(e): Trompete, Flügelhorn
Bert Lochs is pretty wellknown amongst jazzlovers of all kind. He is considered one of the best trumpet players of his generation and his fierce trumpet and lyrical flugel sounded in many places and settings already. International piano star Enrico Pieranunzi recently invited him to play a concert with his own Italian band.
Bert LochsWith his own Trio Bert Lochs and the international trio Lochs/Balthaus/Herskedal(LBH) he played at the North Sea Jazz Festival amongst a lot of other concerts. LBH evolved into the new Lochs/Balthaus/Granly and with star drummer Wim Kegel there is the brandnew quartet Braskiri, ready to launch the first cd. As a section-and sideman he plays in the Guus Tangelder Bigband, the Jasper Somsen Groep, the European Standards Project (ESP, a project initiated by drummer Pieter Bast) and Miro Moves, chamber jazz by the young piano player Paul Maassen and Phil's Music Collective, a brandnew septet led by Phillipp Rüttgers.
To reach this goal, he took lessons from Dutch jazz artists like Ack van Rooijen and Rob Madna, and played in several ensembles like the reknown world music band Baraná, Jeroen Pek Band, Bert Lochs/Dirk Balthaus Quartet, Big Bizar Habit, The Handsome Harry Company and Bert Lochs Inquisitive Quartet(BLIQ) all over Europe. From North Sea Jazz Festival (last summer with his own trio!) to Montreux, BIM-huis to the Satchmo in Maribor, in all these places and more, his lyrical trumpet and his melancholy flugelhorn sounded. His style is abundant and introverted at the same time