Berlin, I'm in you!
My brand new trio LOCKDOWN with Michael Moore on reeds and Greg Cohen on bass performed as part of an art & sound installation by Chris Hinze on March 16th at Kesselhaus, Kulturbrauerei, Berlin, to a sold out audience. The music got recorded, although this was not a concert: "Lockdown Live!"


REMEDY
Thomas Heberer - trumpet, comp
Joe Fonda - bass, flute, comp
Joe Hertenstein - drums, comp
Fundacja Słuchaj April 2nd 2021
CD & Bandcamp only
Recorded August 26, 2020, by
Tom Tedesco, Tedesco Studios, Paramus, NJ
Mixed & mastered January 2021 by Jon Rosenberg, Brooklyn, NY

REMEDY II
Thomas Heberer - trumpet, comp
Joe Fonda - bass, comp
Joe Hertenstein - drums, comp
Fundacja Słuchaj September 10th 2023
CD & Bandcamp only
Recorded April 24 & 25, 2022, by
Tom Tedesco, Tedesco Studios, Paramus, NJ Edited by Thomas Heberer, May 2022, NYC, Mixed & mastered June 2022 by Jon Rosenberg, Brooklyn, NY

REMEDY live
Thomas Heberer - trumpet, comp
Joe Fonda - bass, comp
Joe Hertenstein - drums, comp
2024 Top Ten Critics Poll in Cadence Magazine
self-released May 27, 2024 Bandcamp only
recorded April 6, 2024, at
Jazzkammer, Warmensteinach, Germany during REMEDY's 2024 European tour. 20
engineered and mixed by Harry Tröger
mastered by Thomas Heberer
cover photo – Karl-Heinz Krauskopf
cover design – Thomas Heberer

REMEDY Hipp
Thomas Heberer - trumpet, comp
Joe Fonda - bass, comp
Joe Hertenstein - drums, comp
REMEDY’s “Hipp Hipp Hooray” honors the 100th birthday of pianist and composer Jutta Hipp.
Fundacja Słuchaj February 4th 2025
CD & Bandcamp only
Recorded by Tom Tedesco, March 28 & 29, 2023, Tedesco Studios, Paramus, NJ
Edited by Thomas Heberer, April 2023, NYC, NY
Mixed & mastered by Jon Rosenberg, May 2023, Brooklyn, NY

"A band of equals.
This is jazz, no doubt about it, stripped to its essence of stellar interplay, brilliant soloing and fun in each other's but also one's own mastery of the instrument. Jazz with all its nervousness, its agitation, its emotional depth, its instrumental prowess, its freedom and joy. Together they move as one. Hence the album's title: their collaboration serves as a remedy to stay sane physically and mentally during the pandemic."
- Stef Gijssels 6/2021
https://www.freejazzblog.org/2021/06/thomas-heberer-fonda-hertenstein-remedy.html
________________
"A solid force, a righteous, tight balance of three strong spirits. There are some truly difficult daredevil twists and turns going on here. Considering that this is a trumpet-led trio, there is quite a bit more going on here than one might think."
- Bruce Lee Gallanter 04/2021
https://www.downtownmusicgallery.com/newsletter_detail.php?newsID=2781
________________
"This is the second album of this magnificent “free jazz” trio where swing and melodic invention overflow…With Remedy II, the listener and the musicians go straight to the essence of the emotion, energy and love of music with great spontaneity and the assurance of great creators. When the sum of the parts surpasses what we are already entitled to dream of when reading their names: Thomas Heberer, Joe Fonda and Joe Hertenstein: a remedy for the ambient gloom! "
-Jean - Michel Van Schouwburg 01/2024
https://orynx-improvandsounds.blogspot.com/2024/01/







photographies by Peter Gannushkin outside and inside Downtown Musicgallery, NYC 2023

REMEDY - Videos
REMEDY - Videos


Remedy Trio at Bop Shop Records

Thomas Heberer Trio from the June 20th, 2021 performance

REMEDY – Live in Brooklyn
"Overall it appears that any potential drawbacks implicit in a trio arrangement like this can easily be overcome by a combination of skills, ideas and cooperation. It can even happen with a pandemic raging."
- Ken Waxman, Jazzword, 09/2021
http://jazzword.com/one-review/?id=130763
rem·e·dy
noun
-
a medicine or treatment for a disease or injury.
-
"herbal remedies for aches and pains"
-
something that corrects, counteracts, or removes an evil or wrong.
verb
-
set right (an undesirable situation like a lockdown).
-
"money will be given to remedy the poor funding of jazz musicians"
booking: thomasheberer@hotmail.com
In April 2023, we recorded our third album REMEDY III "Hipp Hipp Hooray" (for Jutta Hipp), and in April 2024 we recorded our fourth studio album in quartet featuring pianist Aki Takase, again with generous support by MUSIKFONDS! Both are scheduled for release with FSR Records. Stay tuned for updates...


REMEDY - Live at Jazzkammer (Self Produced) has been selected by the Cadence Magazine Top Ten Critics poll for 2024
"Take a rubber band and stretch it in every way possible. That’s the perfect description for the music of Remedy, a group featuring trumpeter Thomas Heberer, bassist/flutist Joe Fonda and drummer Joe Hertenstein. They twist, bend, expand, pull and unfold musical elements as they reshape the sound of jazz." - Abe Goldstien
https://papatamusredux.com/2024/06/05/remedy-live-at-jazzkammer/
REMEDY’s third studio album “Hipp Hipp Hooray” honors the 100th birthday of pianist and composer Jutta Hipp, born February 4th, 1925, in Leipzig, Weimar Republic. Consisting of nine compositions loosely related to Hipp’s life story and output, the goal wasn’t to emulate the sound of her day but to get to the essence of Jutta Hipp’s spirit and tell her story through our artistic lens.
A multi-level pioneer, Hipp was known as “Europe’s First Lady of Jazz,” the first woman ever to record as a leader for Blue Note Records, and at the age of 30, the first German jazz musician of note to emigrate to the United States permanently. However, until a renaissance in recent years, Hipp’s oeuvre had largely been forgotten following her retirement from playing in the early 1960s.
Like most people of her generation, Jutta Hipp’s coming of age during the Nazi terror regime, culminating in the horrors of World War II and the hardships and trauma of its immediate aftermath, defined who she was.
From Hipp’s point of view (and that of many youngsters in 1950s postwar West Germany), the music she loved and America were cut from the same cloth – both synonymous with freedom, democracy, and promise.
Her generation’s craving for a new start led to a glorification of all things USA, which clashed with the social and cultural realities that Jutta Hipp encountered after moving overseas. Still, she made New York City her new “Heimat,” never set foot on German soil again, lived for nearly
another half a century, and passed at her home in Queens, New York, on April 7, 2003.
REMEDY set out to salute a trailblazer. Jutta Hipp’s biography is an important cornerstone in the evolution of jazz as a global phenomenon; her music is well worth revisiting, reminding our generation of composers/instrumentalists of the unbroken lineage of masters, heralded and unheralded, who came before us.
Thomas Heberer, New York City, June 29, 2024
REMEDY + Aki Takase
studio album scheduled for release 2026

Fotos 1-6 by Fusayo Oohigashi-Mueller 2024











