STEFAN KARL SCHMID, LARS DUPPLER & HILMAR JENSSON // Blíður

bandcamp/ musichub (2024)

Stefan Karl Schmid - tenor saxophones & clarinet
Lars Duppler - piano
Hilmar Jensson - guitar & efx


Following their debut album "Hringferð", which was produced in cooperation with Deutschlandfunk Cologne, Duppler and Schmid travelled to Iceland in February 2023 to record their new album BLÍÐUR. The duo was joined by the exceptional guitarist Hilmar Jensson, who lives in Reykjavík.
Recorded in the famous studio of the band "Sígur Rós" in Mosfellsbær, a completely new, exciting sound cosmos has been created here. 13 works composed especially for this occasion reflect the unique atmosphere of the Icelandic winter and thus take an intimate look at the perfectly interwoven and virtuoso playing of the protagonists.


Recorded at Sundlaugin Studio, Mosfellsbær, Iceland on February 2023 by Birgir Jón Birgisson
Mixed and mastered by Christian Heck at Tonart Studio, Kerpen, Germany
Produced by Stefan Karl Schmid & Lars Duppler
Cover art by Philipp F. Trübiger
Photos by Marino Thorlacius

 

STEFAN KARL SCHMID & SJO\CGN // You are the Universe

tangible music (2023)

A through-composed suite for jazz orchestra. Created in a secluded artist residence in northern Iceland, away from all daily obligations and distractions. The whole work grows from a small nucleus, unfolds and develops, and finally returns to itself.

Reveal your inner self,
Seeing the world… observe!
All the thoughts you have had,
Recurring and exposing who you really are.
Disengage, dissolve
All that will be or has been.
Ease, amess, erupt:
YOU ARE THE UNIVERSE.
Adjourn.


Stefan Karl Schmid: cl & efx, comp, cond

Reeds: Martin Gasser, Johannes Ludwig, Joachim Lenhardt, Matthew Halpin, Fabian Willmann
Trumpets: Christian Mehler, Heidi Bayer, Maik Krahl (+efx), Lennart Schnitzler
Trombones: Janning Trumann (+efx), Philipp Schittek, Jonathan Böbel/Linus Berg, Tobias Herzog
Rhythm: Dierk Peters (vib), Philipp Brämswig (git), Sebastian Scobel (p), Matthias Akeo Nowak (b),
Fabian Arends (drums & modular synth)

Recorded, mixed & mastered by Christian Heck
Cover artwork by Holger Risse
Pictures by Patrick Essex

Supported by Initiative Musik gGmbH with project funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media.

 
…a masterpiece, a work that will last.
— Michael Laages (NDR Kultur)
 

SCHMID’s HUHN // Layers (live)

shoebill music (2022)

Stefan Karl Schmid - tenor sax, clarinet & effects
Leonhard Huhn - alto sax, clarinet
Stefan Schönegg - bass
Fabian Arends - drums


Recorded live at Club Subway during the “SJO\CGN Small Series”. It’s the third album by Schmid’s Huhn on the Berlin based vinyl-label shoebill music.

... this is so perfect, so passionate, so well thought out and
spontaneous at the same time, that with Layers (live) another star-hour of contemporary German jazz has been presented!
— Wolfgang Giese, Musik an sich
 

STEFAN KARL SCHMID & LARS DUPPLER // Hringferð

bandcamp (2022)

Stefan Karl Schmid - tenor & soprano saxophones, clarinet
Lars Duppler - piano


Co-produced with Deutschlandfunk, Köln.
Recorded at LOFT, Köln by Christian Heck.

In visually powerful arcs, there is room for poignant melodies, but also free improvisation. The congenial duo offers soulful dialogues at the highest level, to which one listens only too gladly.
— Christoph Giese, Virgin Jazz Face
 

STEFAN KARL SCHMID // Muse

tangible music (2021)

Stefan Karl Schmid - tenor sax
David Helm - bass
Thomas Sauerborn - drums
featuring:
Shannon Barnett - trombone
Bastian Stein - trumpet
Pablo Held - piano

With "Muse" Stefan Karl Schmid releases only one year after the octet album "Pyjama" another recording that puts him as a saxophonist and improviser in the center of the action. Personally and musically closely interwoven with its predecessor, seven original compositions as well as an Icelandic folk song and the Warne Marsh title "Background music" can be found here. Together they form a multi-faceted, nuanced body of work.

Schmid fascinates with masterful arrangements and a sound language full of nuances that can be savored with all the senses.
— Horst Peter Koll, Kölner Stadtanzeiger
 

STEFAN KARL SCHMID // Pyjama

tangible music (2020)

Stefan Karl Schmid - tenor sax
Pablo Held - piano
David Helm - bass
Thomas Sauerborn - drums

Bastian Stein - trumpet
Heidi Bayer - trumpet
Shannon Barnett - trombone
Matis Cederberg - bass trombone

But ‘Pyjama’ doesn’t simply express the freedom contained in these moments where dream and reality mix together. It also moves on and beyond, spurns us to adventure and strikes out into a world that, like its counterpart in reality, is equally as hectic, hopeful and sad yet, at the same time, more poetic. All these impressions, gathered in the morning hours, express the composer’s vulnerable and open worldview, his thoughts of what awaits him this day, futile attempts to remember a dream, the adventures which await beyond his door.
— Helgi Schmid
 

NIAQUE // awake

float music (2019)

Stefan Karl Schmid - tenor & Soprano saxophones
Philipp Brämswig - guitars
David Helm - bass
Fabian Arends - drums

 

SCHMID’s HUHN // golden spheres

shoebill music (2018)

Stefan Karl Schmid - tenor sax, bass-clarinet
Leonhard Huhn - alto & soprano sax, bass-clarinet
Stefan Schönegg - bass
Fabian Arends - drums

Second album of the quartet recorded at Deutschlandfunk, Cologne by Oliver Bergner with only three microphones. It captures the unique blend of the group in a pure and magical way. The album contains 11 original compositions embraced by 5 circling spheres.

 

STEFAN KARL SCHMID & PHILIPP BRÄMSWIG // anima

meta records (2015)

Stefan Karl Schmid - tenor & soprano saxophones
Philipp Brämswig - guitar
Robert Landfermann - bass
Jonas Burgwinkel - drums

Everything about this music seems well-dosed, skilful, balanced. And yet never lifeless, but lovingly elaborated, filed, sanded and colored.
— Hans-Jürgen Linke, Jazzthetik
 

STEFAN KARL SCHMID & LEONHARD HUHN // schmid’s huhn

shoebill music (2015)

Stefan Karl Schmid - tenor-, soprano- & baritone-sax, clarinet, bass-clarinet
Leonhard Huhn - alto & soprano sax
Stefan Schönegg - bass
Fabian Arends - drums


First limited edition LP with high resolution download on the Berlin based label Shoebill Music. Recorded at LOFT Cologne by Christian Heck.


more albums as a leader/co-leader

SUBWAY JAZZ ORCHESTRA
still screaming

float music 2020

SUBWAY JAZZ ORCHESTRA
primal scream

float music 2016

STEFAN SCHMID
exTENded

Double Moon 2012

OLAF LIND QUARTET
drift

JazzHausMusik 2011


sideman albums

REZA ASKARI ROAR
feat. Christopher Dell
Zen World Cables

boomslang records 2024

SHANNON BARNETT Quartet
Alive at LOFT

klaeng records 2023

TRISTANO UNCHAINED
on democracy

2023

REZA ASKARI ROAR
feat. Christopher Dell

qftf 2022

ALEX BAYER
radar

mono-ton-records 2022

TREY
feat. Stefan Karl Schmid
lucky streak

Hey!blau Records 2022

SHANNON BARNETT Quartet
bad lover

Toypiano Records 2022

MATTHIAS AKEO NOWAK -
KOI SEPTET
How does Origani sound?

Jazzwerkstatt 2021

Florian Rynkowski
MOMENTUM

klaeng records 2021

Julian Bossert
TRISTANO UNCHAINED
Wild Horses

nft 2021

ReOAR / Fabian Arends
qftf 2021

SOMI & Frankfurt Radio Bigband live at alte oper
holy room

bandcamp 2020

Örn Ingi Unnsteinsson
BRIM
anthropocene

bandcamp 2020

Reza Askari ROAR
magic realism

qftf 2020

SIMONE ZANCHINI &
Frankfurt Radio Bigband
play the music of Nino Rota

In & Out Records 2019

DIERK PETERS
ambrosia

Tangible Music 2019

SEBASTIAN BÖHLEN BAND
fun flowers

Laika Records 2019

BONNEN CHRONOTOPIA september ‘18
Obst Musik 2019

BENJAMIN SCHAEFER
hive mind

for the records 2018

SUBWAY JAZZ ORCHESTRA richbeck
TOBIAS WEMBER

float music 2018

SYMPROPHONICUM
Heiner Schmitz
sins & blessings

NRW records 2017

SHANNON BARNETT Quartet
hype

Doublemoon 2017

STEFAN SCHULTZE
Large Ensemble
ted the bellhop

WhyPlayJazz 2017

Reza Askari
ROAR

klaeng records 2017

Tobias Wember &
SUBWAY JAZZ ORCHESTRA
state of mind

UNIT records 2016

MICHEL REIS QUARTET
capturing this moment

Doublemoon 2015

SEBASTIAN BÖHLEN QUARTET
miscela

Laika Records 2014

ANA MAI
blossom

Neuklang 2014

FLORIAN ROSS
big company

Fuhrwerkmusik 2013

MICHEL REIS QUARTET
hidden meaning

Double Moon 2013


more sideman albums

  • SARA DECKER - poetryfied acoustic motion concepts 2020

  • BLAUPUNKT - Ralf Fronhöfer Jazz Ensemble Personality Records 2018

  • STEFAN SCHULTZE Large Ensemble feat. Wu Wei - erratic wish machine WhyPlayJazz 2015

  • MAXIME BENDER ORCHESTRA - fellowship (DVD) Jazzsick 2014

  • BUJAZZO 25 Double Moon Jazzthing Next Generation 2013

  • SEBASTIAN BÖHLEN SEXTETT - 2,5 concerti for small ensemble Mons Records 2012

  • PHILIPP RÜTTGERS QUARTET - the traveler konnex records 2011

  • JAMES WHITING - burbank Australia Publishing 2011

  • KAI PODACK BIG BAND - swing ist mein ding kp production 2010

  • JAZZCOAST - on ice bobtale records 2008

  • TORSTEN GOODS - irish heart ACT 2007

  • BUJAZZO - Vol.7 the next generation

  • JAZZCOAST - jazzcoast bobtale records 2006