Sandman‘s Calling feat. Julian Sartorius. Release Concert. BeJazz, Bern. My dear brother Gregor Frei presented this project for the first time in Bern last week. He expanded the trio into a quartet. All these guys are fabulous musicians and wonderful people who have a lot of fun making music together. They played the music from […]
Fredy Studer. 1948-2022. Leider bist du nun nicht mehr hier. Deine Passion und Kreativität war ansteckend, dein Leben für die Musik für viele eine Inspiration. Ich habe zum Glück bereits früh viele Konzerte von dir gehört, war seither von deiner Energie begeistert. Ein Lokalmatador, den man auf der ganzen Welt kannte. Was für eine schöne
Shocked to hear Roy Hargrove is no longer with us! Such a huge influence and inspiration for me. The man with the most beautiful sound, with so much soul in everything he played and a sense for style. A great human being living the music every second of his life. Rest in Peace Roy, we‘ll
I had the pleasure to design the cover of the latest record by Dave Douglas and Joe Lovano‘s quintet Sound Prints which was released in April on CD and also as special edition on a 7 inch vinyl. The band with Lawrence Fields on Piano, Linda Oh on Bass and Joey Baron on drums sound
We recorded some of Isabelle Ritter‘s beautiful music in March at MazziveSound Studios. The new record «Atme und zähle bis zehn» was released on QFTF Records. I’m very happy to be part of the amazing band with Isabelle Ritter (voc), Nils Fischer (ss/bcl), Florian Favre (p), Jeremias Keller (eb) and Christoph Steiner (dr). We had a
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
Avishai Cohen is one of the great trumpet players these days. He has released a fantastic trio record called “Dark Nights” with Omer Avital on bass and Nasheet Waits on drums. He is also playing on Mark Turner‘s record “Lathe of Heaven“. Both albums are definitely worth a listen! Dark Nights by Avishai Cohen
Ever since I met Kirk Knuffke in 2007 when we played in Kenny Wollesen’s band “The Himalayas” at the Willisau Jazz Festival I’ve been following his career. He is a fantastic musician and I really love his new record “Arms & Hands”. Buy the CD/LP or download it on iTunes. And check out this Greenleaf