A new band is born! We had an amazing time rehearsing and playing at moodsLABOR. Thanks to Jazzclub Moods in Zürich I had to the opportunity to put this band together and start a new adventure during this residency. Looking forward to playing some more in the future with Simon Spiess (sax), Jeremias Keller (eb) […]
I was back in New York for a few days. The spring event of the Festival of New Trumpet Music, some more interesting concerts, visiting friends and working on some music for a new project were enough reasons to travel across the pond. Hope to be back soon!
So much great music by trumpet players coming out! From time to time I try to mention some of it here. Fellow trumpeter Matthias Spillmann put out a fantastic new record with his band «mats-up». I love it! More about Matthias, his music and his band you find on his website matsup.ch. Another record I really
I’m very happy to be a part of the FONT Music team now. After a intensive preparation time during the summer we had great festival this year with a lot of great concerts. And I also spent a great time in this amazing city meeting a lot of great people and also playing some of
In February I was invited to the Jazzwerkstatt Festival in Bern, which gave me the opportunity to present a brand new project called High Striker with a bunch of friends who happen to be wonderful musicians too! Here are four of the pieces we played, including beautiful music by Jörn and my brother Gregor. Gregor
I’m extremely looking forward to the ninth edition of the Jazzwerkstatt festival which starts this Wednesday, February 24. It’s more than a festival. Marc Stucki, Benedikt Reising and Andreas Schaerer started this adventure, building a young jazz community here in Bern, gathering musicians from all over the world sharing music and the same passion about it. The
In 2003 Dave Douglas and Roy Campbell Jr. initiated the Festival Of New Trumpet Music (FONT) committed to the support of new music by a diverse community of trumpet and brass players, and the presentation of their work to the public. For the 13th edition of this festival I was in New York City myself and
To find out about new records of well known artists is no big deal. But there is also really interesting music by younger and less known trumpet players. Here are three of them. Bounce Four friends of mine started this band a while ago. Now they released their second album called Altruistic Alchemy. Check out
