The Sweetest Sound Angelo Verploegen, Ed Verhoeff & Eric van der Westen

• 1 The Sweetest Sounds 05:00
• 2 Chelsea Bridge 08:33
• 3 How Deep Is The Ocean? 06:31
• 4 Echoes Of Duke 05:22
• 5 Infant Eyes 04:41
• 6 Dig 04:19
• 7 Basin Street Blues 04:58
• 8 Isfahan 05:47
• Total Runtime 45:11

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Angelo Verploegen (Oss, 1961) is one of the most booked trumpet players in the Netherlands. You will run into him in different configurations, from big band to chamber music ensembles. This musical power beast has everything you need, fierce playing in an orchestra or detailed lyricism. The last few years he has increased the use of a flugelhorn, the ‘softer’ brother of the trumpet, an instrument he started playing in a Fanfare Band.

His poetic side mainly gets expressed in his trio with guitarist Ed Verhoeff and double bassist Eric van der Westen. An ensemble that founded in 2001 and made two prior records: ‘The Night And The Daydreamer’ (A records, 2001) and ‘For The Time Being’ (EWM, 2004). For the Japanese market the trio briefly altered its name to Amsterdam Jazz Trio, but now its back to its original name. Three pronounced personalities, with, besides the qualities of its leder, the gentle playing of guitarist Verhoeff and the sturdy foundation of van der Westen on Double Bass.

While previously recording mostly their own repertoire, on this album Verploegen has explicitly chosen for known and less known standards. Literally wearing only socks and no shoes, the musicians step onto the recording stage with “The Sweetest Sounds” by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. Verhoeff starts off subtle, followed by the tender Verploegen on his flugelhorn, powerfully supported by van der Westen on double bass. Music that continuously breathes and leaves space for the fantasy of the listener.

“For this production I demanded perfection of myself and of my fellow musicians”, Verploegen says. “I felt a certain type of pressure, because all the pieces we recorded were straight cuts, without any editing afterwards. But all of us are more than satisfied”. A warm musical bath, is what the final song ‘Isfahan’ feels like, one of the prettiest jazz compositions ever. With his warm and full rounding sounds Verploegen expresses the poetic side of the special piece. A fitting ending for the album named ‘The Sweetest Sound’. (Cyriel Pluimakers)

Angelo Verploegen, flugelhorn
Ed Verhoeff, guitar
Eric Van Der Western, double bass

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