Doppelkonzert: SCHMID´s HUHN – the cologne songbook / Sam Gendel Solo

The quartet Schmid's Huhn has been around for more than 13 years, featuring the namesakes Stefan Karl Schmid and Leonhard Huhn on tenor and alto saxophone plus clarinets and a rhythm section with Stefan Schönegg (bass) and Fabian Arends (drums). Stylistically, the music can be located in the field of tension between post-bop and neo-cool, in which jazz avant-garde and contemporary improvisational music are placed. In their playing, the musicians are concerned with structural processes and the improvisational transformation of ready-made material, which is processed energetically and emotionally. Together with the Cologne Jazz Conference, Schmid's Huhn have started an unusual project: a "Cologne Songbook", in which 111 pieces by Cologne composers are collected. The quartet has extracted a number of pieces from this in order to reinterpret and reshape them as improvisation artists - with the aim of placing these titles in ever-changing musical contexts and revealing the vitality of the Cologne scene as well as its international appeal.

Stefan Karl Schmid - sax/cl
Leonhard Huhn - sax/cl
Stefan Schönegg - b
Fabian Arends - dr
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Sam Gendel, born in 1987 in Visalia, California, and raised in Los Angeles, grew up listening to the jazz of the old-timers - Miles Davis, Duke Ellington and John Coltrane were among them, but also Wayne Shorter and Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Under the influence of these musicians, he began to learn the saxophone and carve out his own path in this originally Afro-American music. In Los Angeles, Gendel came into contact with the producer Flyling Lotus, through whom he found like-minded people who, like him, do not regard jazz as a historically closed genre, but rather as an aesthetic approach to thinking about social and political issues. Whether with a band or solo, as a multi-instrumentalist (saxophone, keyboards, synthesizer and guitar plus a few things from the digital kit), Gendel makes "his" jazz sound unusual: Sometimes he transforms jazz standards such as "Satin Doll" or "In A Sentimental Mood" into a technoid context, sometimes he transfers the digital setting of hip-hop and R&B tracks from the noughties into pleasantly analog sounds.

Sam Gendel - sax/efx
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The concert is partially seated, there is no entitlement to a seat.

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