Swinging Mallets

Instrumentalists:
Piano: Boris Ritter / Prof. Harald Lierhammer / Holger Engel / Rainer Böhm
Bass: Klaus Dusek / Stefan Engels
Drums: Lars Binder / Eckhard Stromer / Goran Mann / Georg Schmid
Mallets: Roland Härdtner

Programmme:
This quartet, founded in 1993 by Roland Härdtner, has now an experience of more than 200 concerts, 6 CD productions, various radio- and television-shows as well as an repertoire of more than 12 hours of music. There are arrangements taken from all mallet productions for this orchestration. The big musical flexibility, demanded from all musicians, enables engagements at nearly every kind of event. Furthermore, the jazz trio ist often booked, besides its mallets performances, to play jazz standards. So, the quartet plays at major events, special cultural events, at festivals, at open air concerts, in jazz clubs and of course at classical concerts. Also suitable for this programme are chamber music series, matinées and vernissages.

Press reviews:

Works (selection):

  • Claude Bolling - Suite Nr.1 für Flöte und Jazz-Trio
  • Claude Bolling - Vagabonde aus der Suite Nr.2 für Flöte und Jazz-Trio
  • Claude Bolling - Affectueuse aus der Suite Nr.2 für Flöte und Jazz-Trio
  • Claude Bolling - Intime aus der Suite Nr.2 für Flöte und Jazz-Trio
  • Claude Bolling - Jazzy aus der Suite Nr.2 für Flöte und Jazz-Trio
  • Chick Corea - Spain
  • Antonio Carlos Jobim - One Note Samba
  • Antonio Carlos Jobim - Chega de Saudade
  • Michel Camilo: Caribe
  • Arturo Marquez: Danzon No.2
  • Josef Zawinul - Birdland
  • Billy Joel - Root Beer Rag
  • Dave Brubeck - Take Five
  • Earl Hatch - Jammin’ the Blues
  • Henry Mancini - Pink Panther
  • Duke Ellington - Don’t get around much anymore
  • André Waignein - A Tribute to Lionel
  • Nebojša Jovan Živkovic: Macedonia
  • Leonard Bernstein - Somewhere aus der West Side Story
  • Leonard Bernstein - I feel pretty aus der West Side Story
  • Leonard Bernstein - Maria aus der West Side Story
  • Leonard Bernstein - Tonight aus der West Side Story
  • Leonard Bernstein - America aus der West Side Story
  • Scott Joplin - Maple Leaf Rag
  • Harry Breuer - Mallets à la Zurke
  • Kurt Engel - Keep Smiling
  • Kurt Engel - Look out little Ruth
  • Henry Lodge - Temptation Rag
  • James Kok - Parade der Xylophonisten
  • Gustav Peter - Erinnerungen an den Zirkus Renz
  • Auguste Durand: Spanischer Walzer
  • Georges Bizet: Carmen-Suite
  • Johannes Brahms: Ungarischer Tanz Nr.5
  • Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow: Hummelflug aus der Oper Zar Saltan
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Alla turca aus der Klaviersonate Nr.12 A-Dur KV 331
  • Wolfgang Schlüter: Ronjas Tanz
  • Leo Weiner: Mathis' Tanz
  • Holger Engel - Wood drive in