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The combination is a blessed one. A fine rhythm section and the leaders share a consentaneous view on their music in which melancholy and optimism fight a battle for priority.
Nice live video's from a concert in Boxmeer. Filmed and edited by Juul Thielen, sound engineer: Guido Nieuwdorp, mix: Bert Lochs
Bert Lochs plays a Van Laar B8 trumpet and a van Laar B2 flugel. A customized Curry 10.5C trumpet mouthpiece and a self designed piece on his flugelhorn. Both pieces share a sixties (Ratzenberger) Jettone rim.
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Also wonderfully frugal and restrained is trumpet player Bert Lochs' new trio, with pianist Dirk Balthaus and tuba player Daniel Herskedal. Parallels with Eric Vloeimans' music are easily drawn, partly due to Lochs' expressive, almost classical sounding compositions, but this trio undeniably has its very own characteristic style. Lochs makes his trumpet sound syrupy and warm; Balthaus' rivulets of notes sound alluringly alert; and a tuba seldom sounded so tender and versatile as in Daniel Herskedal's hands.
Bert Lochs plays with the Enrico Pieranunzi Quintet on Musikfest Bremen
