Paul Klinefelter

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Paul Klinefelter:

. Paul Klinefelter is also a member of the Harrisburg Symphony.

Paul Klinefelter (double bass, electric bass) received a performance diploma from the University of the Arts where he studied with Neil Courtney, assistant principal bass with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Paul is also a member of the Harrisburg Symphony and an active chamber and solo recitalist in addition to his jazz and blues pursuits.

Paul Klinefelter: acoustic bass

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Following his two previous Trio releases on Art of Life Records, "Music In Three Parts" (AL1010-2) and "Doloroso" (AL1021-2), "Blues for Zarathustra" finds pianist Ron Thomas in a duo setting with acoustic bassist Paul Klinefelter performing six Jazz standards and one original composition.
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Ron and Paul perform the songs "Gentle Rain" (Luiz Bonfa), "Time Remembered" (Bill Evans), "Yardbird Suite" (Charlie Parker), "You Must Believe in Spring" (Legrand, Demy & Bergman), "Young and Foolish" (Horwitt & Hague), "I Thought About You" (Van Heusen & Mercer) and the Ron Thomas composition "Blues for Zarathustra".
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Paul Klinefelter and Ron Thomas have been performing and recording in diverse musical situations since 1980.
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Paul was voted Philadelphia's Best Jazz Bassist in 1982 (WRTI 90.1 F.M.). He has performed at the San Jose Jazz Festival, the Berks Jazzfest and has been a clinician at the Berklee College of Music. He is a noted Blues player and has been a member of the Harrisburg Symphony since 1989.
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Paul Klinefelter
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Klinefelter uses the full range of his bass and as such is an integral part of the sound.
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Thomas and Klinefelter make an extremely tight duo, knowing each other so well that their reactions, the push and pull of the two independent voices, sound completely natural.
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Closer listening will uncover the seamless changing of roles as Klinefelter, playing the natural supporting role, will, in the course of things, inject a phrase fragment that is instantly picked up by Thomas.
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Conversely, Klinefelter will just as quickly respond to something Thomas has played.
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Thomas and Klinefelter communicate their deepest feelings, playing for and to each other.
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Says Klinefelter, "Rather than getting bored with a composition, the more familiar with it we become the more we see the deeper possibilities within it."
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This is the magic of Klinefelter and Thomas.
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Pianist Ron Thomas and bassist Paul Klinefelter had worked together for two decades by the time of this 2002 duo session, which shows in the music they produce throughout the date.
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Together with Klinefelter, the duo has the kind of musical E.S.P. that is somewhat rare in jazz, whoever is accompanying the other player always anticipates just where he is going.
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The music is emphatically post-Evans, with Klinefelter playing an active notey role as per the style. They have been playing these particular tunes since way back, so the notes say. It shows. Sometimes, as in "Yardbird Suite", they don't seem to bother with the head, and just dive into the improvisations, getting deeply inside the structure of the tune. Semi-lush chords, many blocked, an actively flowing line spinning (sometimes in the Bop mode) and some rhythmic displacements characterize Thomas' playing and he is good at it. "Blues for Zarathustra" finds Thomas and Klinefelter leaving the high point for last.

Blues for Zarathustra, with Paul Klinefelter on acoustic Bass, is Ron's most recent release. Other recent releases are Wings of the Morning, Cycles and Doloroso. Click here for details. | link to recordingsRecordings | Recordings on CD
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Blues for Zarathustra" finds pianist Ron Thomas in a duo setting with acoustic bassist Paul Klinefelter performing six Jazz standards and one original composition

Paul Klinefelter: acoustic bass
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Ron Thomas' newest project for Art of Life Records, "Music In Three Parts", was recorded on November 12, 2003 and features Paul Klinefelter on bass and Joe Mullen on drums.
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Paul Klinefelter and Ron Thomas have been performing and recording in diverse musical situations since 1980.
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Paul was voted Philadelphia's Best Jazz Bassist in 1982 (WRTI 90.1 F.M.). He has performed at the San Jose Jazz Festival, the Berks Jazzfest and has been a clinician at the Berklee College of Music. He is a noted Blues player and has been a member of the Harrisburg Symphony since 1989.
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This is the way a bass should be recorded: Paul Klinefelter's sound is big and assertive in its interactions with Thomas's piano ideas, with elasticity and bounce.
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Elegant, cerebral piano trio jazz in the classic post-bop style, the debut album by pianist Ron Thomas (with Paul Klinefelter on acoustic bass and Joe Mullen on drums) is no mere dinner music set.
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A set of six originals structured as a sort of jazz sonata, Music in Three Parts is challenging but not difficult; there is little improvisation on display beyond some particularly extravagant bass flourishes by Klinefelter on the opening "Impromptu" and some discreet solo fills by Thomas on the playful "Caprice," but Music in Three Parts isn't some staid third-stream effort straining under the weight of its own solemnity.