Hans-Peter Salentin
What to say about someone who has been playing their instrument for more than 30 years?
Trumpeter Hans Peter Salentin began playing his instrument at the age of 11. He was deeply influenced by his first teacher, Jon Eardly, a former member of the Gerry Mulligan Group. That’s why HPS is always searching for beautiful and memorable melodies. As a true jazz musician, he is a real-time composer — creating music in the moment. This has helped him greatly in his work as a composer (originals, film scores, string quartet music) and producer (lounge music). HPS has released more than 12 CDs of mainstream, improvised, and wave music (available on Amazon, iTunes, and CD Baby).
Whatever HP plays: he always sounds unique.
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He is one of the best European Trumpeters.
— Bill Dobbins (Rochester New York)
The American jazz magazine: “Salentin furthermore uses every electronic possibility available today to make his trumpet create sounds previously unheard, without relinquishing the basic sounds. His playing and improvising are excellent, with some Miles Davis references, and also indebted to Nils Petter-Molvaer and Markus Stockhausen.”
For over 20 years, he has been teaching at the University of Würzburg and became a Professor of Jazz Trumpet, Combo and Big Band. Several originals have been arranged for big band.
Bands and musicians he has played with:
James Carter (Leverkusener Jazzfestival), Chick Corea (Frankfurt Musikmesse), Bob Mintzer, Simon Phillips (Toto), Branford Marsalis, Jeff Hamilton, John Scofield (Leverkusener Jazzfestival), Miroslav Vitous, Roland Höppner, Bill Dobbins (YVP CD “Live im Stadtgarten” and Trio project “The Music of Bill Evans”), Decibal Badila, John Goldsby, Julia Sawicka (“Music of Sting”) and more.
Laura & Kristina Marti, Female Choir of Gavoi (Sardegna), Thomas Alkier, Mathias Schubert, Mike Herting, Frank Möbus, Peter Weniger (YVP CD “My funky Salentin(e)”), Kuba Stankiewicz, Z. Namyslowski (festivals and tours throughout Germany and Poland), Charlie Mariano, Frank Köllges (Moers Jazzfestival), Susan and Martin Weinert, Mirek Honzak, John Riley and John Di Martino (YVP CD “All John”), Andrea Centazzo (“AC Voyagers”), Tato Gomez (lounge and wave CDs), Hans Jörg Scheffler (Dewey Record Lounge CDs), Valerie Kühl, Benni Freibott, Stefan Schmolck (Dewey Records CD *Parisian Melange*), Torsten Kamps (Dewey Record Lounge and Big Band CDs), Cheryl Pyle, Toni Cimoroso, Max Ridgway, Stan Zaslawsky – Kazhargan World on Dewey Record, e.g. CD *Modern Times*…
HpS plays exclusively Adams trumpets and flugelhorn.
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HPS developed into an important European Trumpeter
— German Jazz-Podium
Hans-Peter Salentin's Adams Gear
JazzPodium in Germany (February 2008):
"Salentin has now developed into one of the most significant trumpeters on the European jazz scene..."
The American Jazzmagazine (November 2007):
"Salentin furthermore uses every electronic possibility available today to make his trumpet create sounds previously unheard, without relinquishing the basic sounds. His playing and improvising are excellent, with some Miles references in it, also indebted to Nils Petter-Molvaer or Markus Stockhausen."
Salentin at Adams Music Centre
"The instrument's gripping sound never ceased to amaze me, even after playing it for the first time at the Musikmesse in Frankfurt. When I picked it up and played it for the second time, a year later when visiting Adams, the same sensation took hold of me once again. I tried nearly all models of this series and ultimately I chose the Raw Brass type, developed and built by Adams. It was then and there that I decided that I would never again part from this masterpiece of musical instrument engineering. All Adams flugelhorns share the same superb qualities: a perfect harmony between projection, articulation, intonation and above all a great dark and just real flugelhorn sound! A great challenge for jazz players… Just go, try it out and be impressed!"