427: Hans Sturm on Rose Fingered Dawn

Hans Sturm and Jackie Allen have recently released Rose Fingered Dawn, an album of original compositions written by Hans. Today's episode is a conversation with Hans about this new album along with excerpts of several selections. About The Album:

Rose Fingered Dawn Ten tunes written for Jackie by Hans Sturm, performed by her working band and a three-horn section.

John Moulder, guitars Tom Larson, keys Hans Sturm, bass Dane Richeson drums with Victor Garcia, trumpet Geoff Bradfield, sax Andy Baker, trombone

Links to Check Out:

• Hans' website
• Jackie's website
• Hans' past Contrabass Conversations interview
• Rose Fingered Dawn on Amazon

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