People, Nature, Places, Spaces...everything that is happening around me....
If you ask about musicians who have influenced me and still do I could drop down an endless list including all the names of the great masters of music everybody should know (Trane, Bird, Miles...Beethoven, Mozart, Bach.... to be continued) --- but this would be too much here, so I just let you guys know what I'm recently listening to a lot besides listening to the old cats.
Mark Turner, Seamus Blake, Marcus Strickland, Chris Potter, Joe Lovano, Dave Binney, Josh Redman, Michael Brecker, Rich Perry, Donny Mc Caslin, Adam Rogers, Brad Mehldau, Bob Brookmeyer, Maria Schneider, Jim McNeely, James Taylor, Edvard Grieg, The Roots, Common ...and a lot more
Alexander ‚Sandi’ Kuhn is a jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger, living in the South of Germany.
2004/2005 he studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston/MA with Herb Pomeroy, Joe Lovano, Bill Pierce, Frank Tiberi, Hal Crook, Ed Tomassi, Dave Santoro. There he had the chance to play with a lot of wonderful musicians and to learn much about music and life.
Since 2008, he is enrolled at State University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart.
Alexander ‚Sandi’ Kuhn has played in several bands and explored diffferent stlyes and genres of music (Lauschleben, Playground, Sweet Emma etc.). His current pojects are:
KuhnStoff
Saxophonist and composer Alexander ‚Sandi’ Kuhn has written a lot of new music during the past few months and wants to present it to a broader audience. His compositions move on harmonically modern paths, but are often rooted in plain and simple melodies. To make his musical visions come true, he gathered some of the finest young German jazz musicians.
Sandi Kuhn (sax), Achim Ribbentrop (guitar), Christoph Heckeler (piano), Jens Loh (bass), Axel Pape (drums). www.kuhnstoff.com
Kühntett
Alexander ‚Sandi’ Kuhn is a member of Axel Kühn’s quartet ‚Kühntett’ and also writes music for this group. In march 2009, the quartet was awarded with the 1st prize at the „1. European Burghausen Jazz Competition“. (www.kuehntett.de, www.myspace.com/kuehntettjazz)
HKtwoO
Christoph Heckeler (piano) and Alexander ‚Sandi’ Kuhn (saxophone) explore the art of playing in a duo setting. Their music turns out to be an intimate dialogue between two soulmates who share their inner feelings on a musical level. (www.myspace.com/hktwoo)
Boston Collective
The Boston Collective met in the summer 2007 for the first time to play music outside the USA. Luxembourg pianist Michel Reis, Munich guitarist Michael Vochezer, Düsseldorf Drummer Dennis Frehse and Stuttgart saxophonist Alexander ‚Sandi’ Kuhn know each other from their time at Berklee College of Music in Boston and already played in several ensembles together (Hal Crook, Joe Lovano). The band is completed by German bassist Axel Kühn. It's not only the shared time in Boston that unites the musicians, but also their enthusiasm and their way of thinking about music. Music is regarded as a means of communication to convey and evoke in a creative way exciting, beautiful, but also thoughtful and sometimes sad emotions. The music of Boston Collective consists of original tunes contributed by the band members. Since Dennis Frehse has moved to Japan at the beginning of the year, Axel Pape and Julian Fau will replace him on this year’s tour through Germany. (www.myspace.com/bostoncollective)
An fettem Sound mangelt es dir offenbar und bekanntermaßen auch nicht - schade eigentlich, dass wir uns nie wirklich über den Weg gelaufen sind, als ich noch in Stuttgart wohnte, aber egal, die Zukunft hat sowieso Räder oder Flügel, es ist noch nichts verloren. Ich geb' laut, wenn Konzerte in Stuttgart und Umgebung geplant sind, wäre schön dich dort zu treffen.. Viele Grüße, Johannes
hey, sry, dass ich nich da war am Mittwoch! ...aber das hat ja 20€ gekostet..^^ Zuviel, für mickrige Schülergehälter ;) da wollt dann niemand mehr mit^^
Hey Sandi, heisse zwar nicht Cosma und weiss auch nicht wo die Cosima sich gerade befindet, doch wollt ich doch auch mal etwas auf deiner Seite hinterlassen. Wie geht es denn dem Meister, komme dich dann mal (nerven)besuchen in Stuttgart .. Gruss dein bro Zairos
