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PVH New York Quintet

Peter Van Huffel - saxophones, compositions
Scott DuBois - guitar
Jesse Stacken - piano
Michael Bates - bass
Jeff Davis - drums

The Peter Van Huffel Quintet performed together frequently around New York City and abroad starting in the spring of 2004 and for the entire duration of Peter's New York residency. They are a group that plays with an improvised elasticity and an ability to lead the music in numerous unpredictable directions at any given moment. Their first official CD,“Silvester Battlefield,” was released on the Fresh Sound / New Talent Record label in the summer of 2007, and received rave reviews on both the performances and compositions featured on the album. Geoff Chapman of the Toronto Star says: “The sounds are never too dense, the approach is adaptable and each band member is acutely aware of his colleague's creative aims” and Jim MacNie of New York's Village Voice has called the album “one of the more memorable Fresh Sounds discs in a while.”

Also, make sure to check out the Peter Van Huffel Quintet's first live recording "On Common Ground" available for sampling and purchasing on the Music page.

Reviews on this group and "Silvester Battlefield" are available on the Press page.

ANIMAL FORUM

Peter Van Huffel - saxophones
Samuel Blaser - trombone
Ziv Ravitz - drums

ANIMAL FORUM is a New York-based trio consisting of Canadian saxophonist Peter Van Huffel, Swiss trombonist Samuel Blaser, and Israeli drummer Ziv Ravitz. This unusual bass-less combination performs all improvised material stretching the sound barriers from the extreme avant-garde to grooves that continue to build into endless melodies. The trio has toured throughout the US, Canada and Europe, and performs regularly in New York City. Their first independent recording was released in January 2008 and features eleven improvisations recorded in Ziv's own practice studio...

OH, NEIN

OH, NEIN is:

Peter Van Huffel - saxophones, Roland Fidezius - bass , Lothar Ohlmeier - bass clarinet, tenor saxophone, Yorgos Dimitriadis - drums

Oh, Nein is the second formation created by Fidezius and Van Huffel, although they have performed more frequently in the quartet formation that that of Gorilla Mask. This group has featured in the past saxophonist Gebhard Ullmann, clarinetist / saxophonist Joachim Badenhorst, trumpeter Tom Arthurs, and drummers Christian Lillinger and Kevin Brow. The newest and most recent formation of this quartet features the legendary Lothar Ohlmeier on bass clarinet and tenor saxophone and at present can be heard with a variety of different drummers.