I made a new transcription video of a beautiful Cedar Walton solo I have been working on over the last weeks. It’s such a great chorus on ‘The shadow of your smile’ by Mr. Walton! The whole album is great by the way: Eddie Harris - The In Sound!
NIAQUE | new CD out now!
Our new Quartet CD has been released last week! It’s called NIAQUE - Awake and distributed through our new label FLOAT Music. Besides Philipp on guitar and me on tenor & soprano saxophones it features David Helm on bass and Fabian Arends on drums.
You can find audio tracks, pictures and videos HERE on my website and you can also stream it on Spotify or any other platform of your choice. Enjoy the music!
Cover art by Nadine Targiel
ANIMA on Spotify
Our album Stefan Karl Schmid/ Philipp Brämswig - ANIMA is now available on Spotify, Apple Music and other streaming platforms. It features the wonderful Robert Landfermann on bass and Jonas Burgwinkel on drums.
In autumn we are going to release our second album. Until then feel free to enjoy some ANIMA music!
AMBROSIA & FUN FLOWERS | new CDs
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
Stefan Karl Schmid Oktett | PYJAMA
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
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!