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!
Concerts & Reviews
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.
SCHMID's HUHN | Tour Videos
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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
BRIM | ICELAND TOUR 2017
I'm very much looking forward to the upcoming ICELAND TOUR with Örn Ingi Unnsteinsson's new Quartet BRIM. For the first time I'll visit Iceland as touring musician - very exciting!
SUNDAYKICK with the KICKS 'n' STICKS Big Band
Shannon and I have been invited to play a concert in Mannheim with the fantastic KICKS'n'STICKS Bigband. After only one (very long) rehearsal we played a great concert at "Alte Feuerwache" Mannheim. Here's what the press thought about it:
SUBWAY JAZZ ORCHESTRA // feat. Helge Sunde (NOR)
For the last two concerts this year with the Subway Jazz Orchestra we managed to invite the Norwegian composer and trombonist Helge Sunde. We had a great time playing his fabulous arrangements and enjoyed his great sense of humor and absolute musical mastery!
Here's what Olaf Weiden from 'Kölner Rundschau' thought about our concert:
ANIMA Interview - Jazzpodium
The German Jazz Magazine "Jazzpodium" published a nice article about Philipp Brämswig and myself, our latest release ANIMA and our mutual development over the last years. Thanks to Dietrich Schlegel for the interview and the kind words. (click HERE to download article)
Shannon Barnett Quartet // past, present & future
One of the most exciting projects I have the honor being part of is the fantastic Shannon Barnett Quartet with Shannon on trombone, David Helm on bass and Fabian Arends on drums. Three months ago we played two beautiful gigs at the PENG Festival in Essen and the KLAPSMÜHL in Mannheim. The WAZ newspaper wrote these kind words about our concert in Essen:
"Geradezu genial die australische Posaunistin Shannon Barnett, jüngstes Mitglied der WDR Big Band, die in subtilen Dialogen mit dem beeindruckenden Saxophonisten Stefan Karl Schmid den Modern Jazz neu definierte - große Kunst und die Entdeckung eines Festivals, das man schon jetzt nicht mehr missen möchte."
Now Shannon released a little EP on Bandcamp from a concert we did last year at the Loft in Cologne. Not only the cover art is worth having a look, also the music sounds very good. It can be examined/ purchased/ consumed HERE.
From the past through the present to the future: We are doing a 2 week Australia tour in October this year and afterwards we will record our first CD. I'm very much looking forward to this!
New ANIMA review
Here's a nice review by Hans-Jürgen von Osterhausen from the german magazine Jazzpodium (11/2015).
Schmid's Huhn ON TOUR
This weekend SCHMID's HUHN will play two concerts in Berlin and Wuppertal to present the latest LP as well as brand new stuff. Come by if you are around.
Nov 28th @ Barkett, Berlin, Jazz im Kiez, 9pm
Nov 29th @ Cafe Ada, Wuppertal, Advent-Jazz, 5pm
Reviews, Reviews, Reviews
Here are two nice feedbacks of all the playing and composing I have been doing over the last months. The first one is a review of my latest release STEFAN KARL SCHMID/ PHILIPP BRÄMSWIG - ANIMA by the fantastic author Hans-Jürgen Linke which appeared in the german magazine Jazzthetik and the other one is a look on a MICHEL REIS QUARTET concert we played as part of the Münsterland Festival on a beautiful castle in Kolvenburg. Check it out...
Jazzthing Review ANIMA
Here's a short review of the ANIMA album that has been published in the latest Jazzthing magazine: