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Conrad Herwig родился в 1 ноября 1959.
ОБЛАДАТЕЛЬ 3 ПРЕМИЙ GRAMMY.
Новатор в Джазе играет в стиле Post BOP,Neo BOP,Latin.Один из лучших Тромбонистов мира.
Биография Conrad Herwig на Английском.
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Conrad Herwig is a jazz trombonist from New York City in the United States. Mr. Herwig has recorded 19 albums as a leader.Contents [hide]
1 Biography
1.1 Educator
2 Discography
2.1 As leader
2.2 As sideman
3 External links
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Biography
In constant demand as a sideman, Herwig has been a featured member in the Joe Henderson Sextet, Tom Harrell’s Septet and Big Band, and the Joe Lovano Nonet (featured as a soloist on Lovano’s Grammy Award winning 52nd St Themes). Conrad also performs and records with Eddie Palmieri’s "La Perfecta II" and Afro-Caribbean Jazz Octet, Paquito D’Rivera’s Havana-New York Connection, the Mingus Big Band (often serving as musical director, and arranger on the new 2007 Grammy nominated-"Live at the Tokyo Blue Note"), and the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band (Jon Faddis, musical director) among many others.
His newest release, "The Latin Side of Wayne Shorter" featuring Eddie Palmieri, was nominated for a 2009 Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Performance. His other recent projects are Sketches of Spain y Mas and Another Kind of Blue-The Latin Side of Miles Davis on Half Note Records, which was also Grammy-nominated in 2005 . These are the follow-ups to the 1998 Grammy-nominated CD, The Latin Side of John Coltrane. These exciting new projects were all recorded live at the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York City and feature special guests Paquito D’Rivera, Dave Valentin and Brian Lynch (co-musical director of the group). His most recent solo recordings on the CrissCross label are "A Jones for Bones Tones", Obligation, Land of Shadow, Hieroglyphica, Unseen Universe, Osteology, and Heart of Darkness which received 4 and 1/2 stars in Down Beat. He has also been voted #1 Jazz Trombonist (TDWR) in the 1998, 1999, and 2002 Downbeat Jazz Critic’s Poll, and nominated for Trombonist of the Year by the Jazz Journalist's Association in 2007 and 2008.
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Educator
Herwig is an alumnus of North Texas State University in Denton, Texas, where he performed in the One O'Clock Lab Band. He attended Goddard College in Plainfield, Vt., where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Afro-Caribbean ethnomusicology, and Queens College, CUNY, with a Master of Arts, Jazz Studies.
Herwig has conducted master classes, seminars and workshops at major universities and conservatories around the world including the Sibelius Academy, Finland; the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin; the University of Köln, Germany; Eastman School of Music, Rochester, N.Y.; the University of Southern California and literally hundreds of others.
The recipient of performance and teaching grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Herwig is currently Professor of Jazz Trombone, Jazz Improvisation and Jazz Composition/Arrangement at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, a position he has held since 2004. He was also elected to the Board of Directors of the International Trombone Association.
One of the most in-demand jazz educators, Herwig is a Selmer clinician and performs exclusively on Bach Stradivarius trombones.
