Peter Schärli Trio featuring Glenn Ferris

The trumpeter Peter Schärli is on a roll: His CD "Obrigado, Dom Um Romão" with the Brasilian singer Ithamara Koorax got prenominated for the grammy, the music oscar. The earlier album "Hot Peace" with the "Special Sextet" was honored by the Norddeutscher Rundfunk in Germany and in Brasil Peter Schärli was voted trumpeter of the year by music journalists, leaving behind colleagues like Lew Soloff and Randy Brecker.

Peter Schärli starres at festivals in Africa, Asia, Southern America and Europe. For more than thirty years he manages to find a sane mixture between the artistic aspect and the vicinity to the audience. He introduces his band to compositions which sound easy but have hidden rough edges and even challenge a star like the trombonist Glenn Ferris. Musical arrangements that even satisfies wonderful musicians like pianist Hans-Peter Pfammater and bassist Thomas Dürst - as well as Schärli himself.

Glenn Ferris belongs to the few world class musicians who can claim to have played with the brilliant Frank Zappa: When he was a very young trombonist he was a member of the small Wazoo Orchestra, which played some of the best and most complex compositions of Zappa. Since he was sixteen years old, Ferris is a professional player and his discography as leader or sideman surpasses well over hundred CDs and reads like a "who Is who" of the jazz and pop history: From Stevie Wonder, James Taylor, Tim Buckley and the Average Whit Band to Don Ellis, Quincy Jones, Art Pepper, Tony Scott, Archie Shepp and Billy Cobham to John Scofield, Michel Petrucciani and the Brecker Brothers.

It speaks for Schärli as an instrumentalist, composer and arranger that such a crack remains loyal to him for 25 years.