Conrad Herwig

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Conrad Herwig
Conrad Herwig at The Blue Note
Background information
Born	November 01, 1959 Lawton, Oklahoma, USA
Genre(s)	post-bop, Afro-Cuban, Afro-Caribbean, Big Band
Occupation(s)	Bandleader, composer, trombone, educator
Instrument(s)	trombone
Years active	1980's - Present
Label(s)	Half Note Records, Criss Cross Jazz
Website	www.conradherwig.com

Conrad Herwig is a jazz trombonist from New York City in the United States. Mr. Herwig has recorded 17 albums as a leader. His new CD releases are Sketches of Spain y Mas and Another Kind of Blue-The Latin Side of Miles Davis on Half Note Records, which was nominated for a 2005 Grammy Award. These are the follow-up projects to the 1998 Grammy-nominated CD, The Latin Side of John Coltrane. These exciting new projects were both recorded live at the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York City and feature special guests Paquito D’Rivera, Dave Valentin and Brian Lynch (co-musical director of the group). His most recent solo recordings on the CrissCross label are Obligation, Land of Shadow, Hieroglyphica, Unseen Universe, Osteology, and Heart of Darkness which received 4 and 1/2 stars in Down Beat. He has also been voted #1 Jazz Trombonist (TDWR) in the 1998, 1999, and 2002 Downbeat Jazz Critic’s Poll.

In constant demand as a sideman, Herwig has been a featured member in the Joe Henderson Sextet, Tom Harrell’s Septet and Big Band, and the Joe Lovano Nonet (featured as a soloist on Lovano’s Grammy Award winning 52nd St Themes). Conrad also performs and records with Eddie Palmieri’s "La Perfecta II" and Afro-Caribbean Jazz Octet, Paquito D’Rivera’s Havana-New York Connection, the Mingus Big Band (often serving as musical director, and arranger on the new 2007 Grammy nominated-"Live at the Tokyo Blue Note"), and the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band (Jon Faddis, musical director) among many others.

[edit] As an Educator

Herwig is an alumnus of North Texas State University in Denton, Texas, where he performed in the One O'Clock Lab Band. He attended Goddard College in Plainfield, Vt., where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Afro-Caribbean ethnomusicology, and Queens College, CUNY, with a Master of Arts, Jazz Studies.

Herwig has conducted master classes, seminars and workshops at major universities and conservatories around the world including the Sibelius Academy, Finland; the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin; the University of Koln, Germany; Eastman School of Music, Rochester, N.Y.; the University of Southern California and literally hundreds of others.

The recipient of performance and teaching grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Herwig is currently Professor of Jazz Trombone, Jazz Improvisation and Jazz Composition/Arrangement at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, a position he has held since 2004. He was also elected to the Board of Directors of the International Trombone Association.

One of the most in-demand jazz educators, Herwig is a Selmer clinician and performs exclusively on Bach Stradivarius trombones.

(Text from http://www.conradherwig.com with permission by the author/site owner)

[edit] Discography (as a leader):

The Latin Side of Wayne Shorter, Featuring Eddie Palmieri and Brian Lynch (Half Note) (2008)
Sketches of Spain y Mas (Half Note) (2006)
Obligation (Criss Cross Jazz) (2005)
Conrad Herwig & Brian Lynch, Que Viva Coltrane (Criss Cross Jazz) (2004)
Another Kind of Blue: The Latin Side of Miles Davis (Half Note) (2004)
Land of Shadow (Criss Cross Jazz) (2003)
Shades of Light w/ Andy LaVerne (Criss Cross Jazz) (2002)
Hieroglyphica (Criss Cross Jazz) (2001)
Unseen Universe (Criss Cross Jazz) (2000)
Trio de Barnardo Sassetti (Groove Jazz) (2000)
Osteology (Criss Cross Jazz) (1999)
Heart of Darkness (Criss Cross Jazz) (1998)
Latin Side of John Coltrane (Astor Place) (1996)
New York Breed (Double Time) (1996)
Intimate Conversations (Ken Music) (1990)
The Amulet (Ken Music) (1991)
New York Hardball (Ken Music) (1989)
With Every Breath (Ken Music) (1987)