I’m very excited about my new project PYJAMA. It features wonderful musicians from the Cologne jazz scene I have played with in different contexts over the last years. Our first concert will be at the Loft in Cologne!
HR BIGBAND feat. Cristina Branco | FADO & more
I spent the last week with the wonderful Frankfurt Radio Bigband. We played beautifully arranged FADO music feat. Cristina Branco and Mário Laginha. You can watch the full concert HERE.
New Solotranscription | CHRIS POTTER - WE SEE
This summer I have been working on a fantastic Chris Potter Solo. It’s on one of my all time favorite records PAUL MOTIAN & E.B.B. - MONK & POWELL. Below you can find a version of me playing along with it and there’s also a pdf version of the solo for you to download.
SCHMID's HUHN | Tour Videos
in Concerts & Reviews, News, Videos
From our recent GOLDEN SPHERES release tour I have created a youtube playlist with 4 videos from our gigs in Mannheim and Cologne. Feel free to subscribe to the channel.
SCHMID's HUHN | GOLDEN SPHERES @ Klapsmühl' Mannheim
The second part of our GOLDEN SPHERES release tour started in Mannheim last week. We had a wonderful time at Klapsmühl'. Great pictures once again by Uli Templin and nice review in the "Mannheimer Morgen".
Reza Askari ROAR | on tour
We already had a couple of great concerts with Reza's Trio ROAR. We have been playing in Wiesbaden, Bremen, Aachen and Nuernberg and there will be more soon (see schedule).
Lukas Diller took some great pictures from our show at Balazzo Brozzi last week!
SCHMID's HUHN on album release tour!
SCHMID's HUHN is releasing its second album GOLDEN SPHERES on shoebill music, Berlin. We will be playing a couple of release concerts in the next days. Hope to see you around!
16.2. Saxstall, Pohrsdorf
17.2. Kulturbahnhof, Kalchreuth
18.2. Dumont, Aachen
19.2. Loft, Köln
Copyright: Peter Tümmers
SUBWAY JAZZ ORCHESTRA | NEW ALBUM | RICHBECK
in New Albums, Videos
The Subway Jazz Orchestra will release its third album next month. It's called RICHBECK and contains a new Suite for Jazz Orchestra by Tobias Wember. Please check out the SJO Website for more info. The CD is exclusively available through FLOAT Music.
DREAMING OUT LOUD
Klaus Graf and I did a nice quartet concert at Jazzstudio Nürnberg last Wednesday. Marco Kühnl on bass and Julian Fau on drums joined us for a very special evening of Jerry Bergonzi music, some original material and extended soloing. Lukas Diller took some great pictures:
SOLOTRANSCRIPTION | Stan Getz - Out of Nowhere
The last couple of weeks I spent some time practicing a beautiful solo by Stan Getz on the Jazzstandard 'Out of nowhere'. It's an absolutely amazing solo! Stan is on the left, myself on the right channel: