Wolfgang Schalk - guitar/comp.
Helen Sung - piano
Andy McKee - bass
Ian Froman - drums

Wolfgang Schalk has garnered international acclaim as a guitarist and composer. His new album Space Messengers received enthusiastic praise from journalists, musical peers and fans alike.

All About Jazz writes: "On Space Messengers, Austrian musician Wolfgang Schalk proves to be an explosively inventive guitarist and a gifted, challenging composer. Backed by an alert, vibrant rhythm section, he digs deep into eight original compositions, improvising with considerable intelligence, passion, and swing... He plays with an attractive lyricism, enabling some of his phrases to float over the rhythm section, and one of his most intriguing strategies is a seemingly effortless tendency to insert unexpected chordal passages into a single-note line...Yet, as good as these guitar solos are (and they are very, very good), the compositions themselves are what first catch the ear... If other musicians pick up on these tunes, every single one of them has the potential to become a jazz standard...Highly recommended."

For Jazz Times the Wolfgang Schalk Quartet recalls “the flexibility of the 1960s Miles Davis Quintet" and the Austrian daily Die Presse calls him “easily one of Europe's best guitarists."
www.wolfgangschalk.com/

November 15  |  7:30 pm  |  Embassy of Austria
Tickets: $15
For information and tickets go to: www.internationalclubdc.com
Cash bar with Austrian wine opens at 6:30 pm.
In cooperation with the International Club of DC