Hendrik Meurkens Quartet
About This Event
Hendrik Meurkens brings harmonica and vibraphone into a modern jazz language, favoring clarity, clean phrasing and close ensemble interplay. At The Django he appears with his quartet; bassist Gabriel Espinosa shares top billing on this program. Their writing and solos move between blues-inflected lines and more harmonically searching passages, with arrangements that do much of the storytelling.
About the Artists
Hendrik Meurkens Quartet
"Harmonica maestro Hendrik Meurkens and bassist Gabriel Espinosa share top billing, but the music seems to mark this as a Meurkens date. While each man contributes four songs to the program, Meurkens' harmonica is the guiding voice.
Hendrik Meurkens
Hendrik Meurkens is a Dutch jazz musician known for working on both harmonica and vibraphone, instruments he brings into a modern jazz language. In New York City he appears at Smalls Jazz Club, where he leads the Hendrik Meurkens Quintet in sets that foreground ensemble interplay and clean phrasing.