RECORDING: Trumpet and Guitars – Elegant And Fantastic Album Release By Gerhard Daum on Tonework Records

Contemporary Jazz is a fascinating collection of seventeen original pieces by German composer and musician Gerhard Daum. A very successful composer of soundtrack music for films and television in both the US and Europe, Daum’s music is expressive and often very visual. On this album, Daum performs on trumpet, flugelhorn, and acoustic and electric guitars (not all at the same time!), and is accompanied by prominent Macedonian double-bassist, Martin Gjakonovski, who lives and works in Cologne (Germany)…