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 Reviews / Quotes
Wolter Wierbos
..the great, subtle, razor-eared, sometimes comic trombonist....He can nail difficult written music, pitch-perfect, and also play a quarter tone off, with greasy vibrato like an inspired rural brass-band amateur.
Kevin Whitehead: Coda, May/June 1990
X-Caliber quotes
Wierbos is a phenom, both a humourous importer of every style into his template-free, fat-backed sound, and a tireless spy in the house of brass....He compacts the horn’s history with no presumption and, overall, shows a magnetic sense of levity while demonstrating his own sheer brilliance.
Coda Magazine: November/December 1998
There isn’t much Dutch trombonist Wolter Wierbos can’t do..........He speaks the classic trombone vocabulary as naturally as he does Dutch, mixing throaty growls, fat smears, elegant slinkiness, and impeccable wah-wahs like some long-lost Ellington sideman, but he’s just as adept when he gets abstract.
Peter Margasak: Chicago Reader
..a total player, with outrageous facility and an inquiring mind......a round-trip tour of his horn, from buzzing mute mutations, grizzly blurts and purring multiphonics to radiant melodies.
John Corbett: Down Beat, September 1998
His horn breathes on a respirator and shouts across the fields from the top of a levee........He makes fast connections and can play what he thinks.
Kevin Whitehead: liner notes, X-Caliber
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