Videos
Earlier this year we had the pleasure of performing at the Jazzschmiede again with the Subway Jazz Orchestra. My new suite for jazz orchestra - YOU ARE THE UNIVERSE - was performed here for the first time (the corresponding album is in the works :-).
We also played my piece FLY, which can be found on our current album "Still Screaming" (float music 2020). Here is a little video of it. Many thanks to Lars Wallat and the Jazzschmiede!
Schmid’s Huhn - Layers (live) is now available on Bandcamp as LP and CD.
The Shannon Barnett Quartet was selected to record a full set of music at the WDR in Cologne for this year’s Jazzfest Berlin Online Edition. It turned out very nice and we had a great time playing. The video is available on the Arte concert website. Please check it out.
Here’s a YouTube playlist of all PYJAMA pre-release videos I did. Hopefully they spark your interest. The whole album can be found on all streaming platforms.
Playing Duo has been a new thing during these difficult times in order to meet the social distancing rules. Lars Duppler and I used the chance to create new material. Here are some videos of us performing mainly icelandic traditional music.
A lot of great music is being released these days. Despite the difficult financial circumstances for Jazz releases many artists keep creating great stuff and put all their energy into making beautiful records. I was lucky to be part of two very special projects that now have been released. On the one hand this is Sebastian Boehlen who has written very challenging and exciting music for quintet. On the other hand Dierk Peters put together a six piece band where I had the pleasure to play only clarinets. Please feel free to check the music out and buy a CD if you like it!
Dierk Peters - vib | Stefan Karl Schmid - cl, bcl
Bastian Stein - trp, flgh | Laurent Derache - acc
David Helm - b | Fabian Arends - dr
Sebastian Böhlen - git | Magnus Schriefl - trp
Stefan Karl Schmid - sax | Max Leiß - b
Peter Gall - dr
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.
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.
Here's a little impression of our 'YOU NAME IT, WE PLAY IT! VOL II' concert with the Subway Jazz Orchestra from last April. At the beginning of this year we asked the audience to tell us their favorite tunes. Eight fantastic composers from Cologne picked one tune each and arranged it for the band. In the video you hear Martin Gasser's version of the Björk title 'Black Lake' (with a long tenor solo of mine in the middle :-)
The Subway Jazz Orchestra finally got its own Youtube channel. It was about time since recently a lot of great videos from the band have been added. Some of my arrangements can be found, too. Here are the latest three: No. 1 is my original composition "Snakes Don't Walk" (released on 'Primal Scream') from a fantastic concert at the 'Jazzschmiede' in Düsseldorf. The Hendrix composition 'Freedom' (No. 2) is from the same gig. And the last clip is from our March concert at 'Club Subway', my arrangement of the composition 'Trio#20' by the great keyboarder Christian Lorenzen.
