Trumpeter Eric Vloimans says his music was shaped “largely through the America history of jazz,” but it also has a strong touch of the classical music of his Dutch upbringing.
The result, he says, is improvised music that “has its home in the heart, not in the head.”
Vloimans on Wednesday will bring that music to the First Unitarian Church in Shadyside in an improvised concert with keyboardist Florian Weber and Syrian clarinetist Kinan Zameh, whom he calls a “special guest.”
Vloimans and Weber are on a tour through the United States, he says, but have managed to add Zameh for several dates. Vloimans says the “match is very important” in any shared production of music, and believes this “match” among the three of them is quite good.
Vloimans‘ music is far from jazz, even though it has part of its source in jazz‘s improvisation, he says. Its classical heritage helps to create a different sound, he says, making his music more thoughtful, more contemplative, more like “chamber music.”
It also matches his approach to the trumpet, which he plays softly, without demanding the showy bravado which seems like the goal of most players of that horn.
He says he knows that style is a different way to play the trumpet in concert. When he realized he did not want to be a jazz trumpeter in the classic form of Freddie Hubbard, he had to shape his own style.
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