JazzGarten
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JazzGarten is the name of my Jazzquintet which I founded in 2002 here in Bremen, North-Germany and since 2008 it is also the name of my homerecording-project. Most of these own compositions I loaded up to MYOWNMUSIC.DE, a music-platform like SOUNDCLICK. I am not a professionial musician. In the age of 14 years I learned the guitar by myself and founded in 1983 a New-Wave-Band. Later I changed from Band-Projects to Homerecording with a friend who played guitar, wrote lyrics and played bass. More than 17 years we met every sunday and recorded our own music-pieces. Since 1991 I changed the instrument and learned to play keyboards. In 1995 I bought a tenorsaxophon and studied it by myself. In the last 7 years I began to sing jazzstandards in my jazzquintet, began to study clarinet with a teacher.
Since 2008/2009 I started to record compositions of italian popsongs (The Four Seasons - Lyrics from an unknown author of the 18th century. You can hear them on MYOWNMUSIC.DE). They are my first own vocal-compositions. Also I discovered the beauty of romantic poems of the 19th century (Storm, Geibel, Schiller, Puschkin, Lenau etc.) and set these poems into my own form of pop-music (also to hear at MOM.DE).Have you performed in front of an audience?Yes, I like to play live. It is one of the greatest things you can have, to improvise in front of the audience and to see and feel the feedback of the people. When you are really deep in your music, you are very near to the heart of the people.
Your musical influences
I love the music of Pat Metheny (I hear it since 1978), Brian Eno, Jan Garbarek, Miles Davis, Chet Baker. But also I like classical music, especially the great Johann Sebastian Bach.What equipment do you use?
I play a Yanagisawa-Tenorsaxophone and Yanagisawa-Soprano and a Buffet Crampon-Clarinet (E11).
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