Please Welcome Carolin Pook!

February 28th, 2008

If three of us wasn’t enough, now I’m am absolutely thrilled to announce that Ms. Carolin Pook has jumped aboard to grace us with her amazing violin playing. Humoungous props go out to Joe Hertenstein for single handedly finding and bringing me together with all of these wonderful musicians.

We had our second to last rehearsal yesterday and I have to say with all sincerity that the addition of Carolin’s violin playing truly changes everything. Joe and Craig are really holding things together rhythmically and Carolin weaves in and out of us with a sexy and sultry grace.

Frankly, she really pretty’s us up!

Carolin Pook earned a double Master’s degree (Violin/Drums) in Jazz Studies in 2006 at the Cologne Conservatory and is now in the Jazz Master’s Program at Queens College in New York along with Joe Hertenstein. With her trio Lillica (drums) and the Carolin Pook Quintett (violin), she performs her own compositions or free improvisations. Before moving to New York City, Ms. Pook lived in Berlin and performed all over Germany in all different kinds of music, especially contemporary classical. She has performed with Peter Broetzmann, Benny Baily, Jimmy Woode, Junior Mance, Paul Kuhn, the Cologne Contemporary Jazz Orchestra and toured with the renowned Fantastischen Vier. She has been involved in various dance projects and has written music for short movies. Ms. Pook played the solo violin part in Helmut Eisels’s “Naftule und der König,” performed by the orchestra of the Saarländischer Rundfunk and the Stadttheater Aachen.