Summer Haze (STR Digital Records, 2021) is a story of melody and improvisation for piano and vibraphone. This recording is the culmination of a collaboration of music that cannot be labelled as jazz but as performance of intimate interaction as a duo, incorporating jazz, classical music, melody, harmony and improvisation. The music is accessible even to those listeners who do not consider themselves jazz aficionados. Stories are told through the music and performance.

Sanford Hinderlie and Tom van der Geld came together as a duo in 2016 after exchanging emails from Germany to America. Hinderlie has performed solo piano throughout the world, including concerts in the Far East, the Soviet Union, the Republics of Georgia and Armenia, the Middle East, Europe and throughout the United States. He is based in New Orleans and Düsseldorf, Germany. The American vibraphonist van der Geld was born in Boston and has been living and performing in Germany since 1974. He has performed at nearly all of the significant European Jazz Festivals including Montreux, Weltmusiktage Donaueschingen, Baden-Baden New Jazz Meeting, Willisau Festival, Jazz Festival Berlin and the Leverkusener Jazz Festival. His legendary group Children at Play recorded four albums for the German label ECM/JAPO. 

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