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Harry Sokal

About the Artist

Harry Sokal, most recently successful throughout Europe with his project Depart (ACT Music, with Heiri Känzig and Jojo Mayer), is one of the most important post-Coltrane saxophonists in Europe. A Who's Who of recent jazz history that he has accompanied, or who accompanied him, bears witness to this: as a member of the Vienna Art Orchestra as well as in the legendary Art Farmer Quintet from 1979 to 1999, as a partner of Art Blakey, Dave Holland, Wynton Marsalis, Terje Ryptal, Joe Zawinul, Harry Pepl, and many others. In 2005 he was awarded the Hans Koller Prize as Musician Of The Year. Harry Sokal about himself: Thanks to 25 years of collaboration with Art Farmer as well as many other personalities and formations of the international jazz scene such as the Vienna Art Orchestra, the Carla Bley Big Band, Art Blakey, Idris Muhammad, Joe Zawinul, Jean Paul Bourelly, Dave Holland, Michel Portal, Daniel Humair, Harry Pepl, Jene Jackson, Andy Mc Kee, etc., all of whom have become a decisive part of my musical life, I have come to know all facets and secrets of jazz. In all these projects, as well as in my own formations, the roots of jazz and my innermost melodies and grooves are always in the foreground, regardless of whether it's be-bop, soul, funk, classical or free improvisation. It is an addiction ... to experience myself, to surprise myself and to take my listeners with me on this exciting journey.

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Videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZPHw2hsdeg;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvjKRmMs1iM