Ernie Hammes at Rhythm In The Kitchen Music Festival at Church Of All Nations

Ernie Hammes is a Luxembourg trumpeter who specializes in jazz and also plays classical music. He has played both solo and as first trumpet in the Big Bop Nouveau band, travelling to more than 25 countries while solidly supporting the Luxembourg jazz scene.
Recent venues have included festivals in Chicago , Calgary , Vancouver, Edmonton , New Orleans, Karlsbad (Czech Republic) and Cleveland, Ohio. He has also played in Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London and at the Montreux Jazz Festival , Den Haag, North Sea Jazz Festival and Toronto festivals. He is the only European to have been a member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra. ...

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Ernie Hammes is a Luxembourg trumpeter who specializes in jazz and also plays classical music. He has played both solo and as first trumpet in the Big Bop Nouveau band, travelling to more than 25 countries while solidly supporting the Luxembourg jazz scene.
Recent venues have included festivals in Chicago , Calgary , Vancouver, Edmonton , New Orleans, Karlsbad (Czech Republic) and Cleveland, Ohio. He has also played in Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London and at the Montreux Jazz Festival , Den Haag, North Sea Jazz Festival and Toronto festivals. He is the only European to have been a member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra.

In his native Luxembourg, he is the founder director and lead trumpet in the Luxembourg Jazz Orchestra and has been a member of the Musique militaire grand-ducale (the Luxembourg Military Band) where he is lead trumpet and leader of the big band.

For this 2013 Rythm in The Kitchen Music Festival Ernie Hammes will be accompanied by French Pianist Pierre Alain Goualch, Luxembourg drummer Paul Wiltgen and American bassit Aidan Carroll.


SPONSORED BY RUBY FLOWER PRODUCTIONS AND LE MINISTERE DE LA CULTURE GRAND DUCHE DE LUXEMBOURG

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