News
The new Michel Reis Quartet recording 'Capturing This Moment' is now officially released. It's available through all common stores. We will be playing a couple of concerts in Italy, France and Germany during the next months. Here's a short trailer:
I'm very happy to be part of Heiner Schmitz' new interdisciplinary project 'Sins & Blessings' which deals with the seven deadly sins. We will be performing live at the end of January and recording at DLF, Cologne shortly after. Here's a little preview:
01/21/2015 Altes Pfandhaus, Köln altes-pfandhaus.de
01/22/2015 Blue Note, Osnabrück cinema-arthouse.de/bluenote/
01/23/2015 Jazzschmiede, Düsseldorf jazz-schmiede.de
01/24/2015 Musikschule Anneliese-Geske-Haus, Erftstadt kulturkreis-erftstadt.de
The SCHMID's HUHN LPs just arrived and are now available in the shop.
My new record Stefan Karl Schmid & Leonhard Huhn - SCHMID's HUHN is officially released today on shoebill music, Berlin as 12" LP (180g) including a personal download code + 2 bonus tracks.
I'm very proud of this little piece of art which has been made possible by the wonderful band Leonhard Huhn (as), Stefan Schönegg (b) and Fabian Arends (dr) and all the fantastic work and spirit of the artists around us: Christian Heck (recording & mixing), Michael Fossenkemper (mastering), Nadine Targiel (cover art & photography), Johannes Haage (shoebill music) and Hayden Chisholm (liner notes).
You can order through my online shop or shoebill music, if you like.
Until the end of this year a couple of very exciting concerts will take place in our series 'Jazz-im-Subway'. Next week on November 12th the Subway Jazz Orchestra (SJO) is presenting a special program featuring three outstanding Cologne-based musicians: Henning Berg, Roger Hanschel and Sebastian Sternal.
Two weeks later (Nov 26th) my quartet with Philipp Brämswig and the wonderful KOI Trio feat. Matthias Nadolny are sharing the stage followed by Malte Schiller from Berlin who is conducting the SJO on December 10th with his music.
The last concert in 2014 is going to be a christmas special with 'The Hot Brownies' feat. Filippa Gojo on December 17th.
On November 7th 2014 my longtime musical comrade Sebastian Böhlen is releasing a new quartet CD including his new challenging, contemporary originals. We recorded at the famous old radio studios in Berlin. Besides Sebastian on guitar and me on tenor and soprano saxophone it features Jakob Dreyer on bass and Peter Gall on drums. The CD is going to be released on LAIKA records.
For the second time I have been invited to the European Jazz Competition at the "Tremplin Jazz Festival" in Avignon, France. This time SCHMID's HUHN was one of six selected bands. We played a nice concert in beautiful scenery and I won the award for "Best Instrumentalist/ Soloist".
A french review from "Jazzmagazine - Jazzman" can be found here.
As you might have noticed I've got a new website. Besides some new features it includes a BLOG which I will try to use for interesting posts and up to date news.
From now on some of my Big Band Arrangements can be purchased through the "Bundes-Big-Band-Archiv" which has been installed by the German "Musikrat". Goal of the archive is to achieve a greater distribution of modern German Big Band music. But not only difficult compositions also easy or intermediate tunes for amateur bands or groups with an irregular line-up can be found there.
