THOMAS STABENOW double-bass, composer, arranger, producer
Born in Kirchberg, Germany on 11 Sept 1952
 Studied double-bass with Prof. Ulrich Lau in Stuttgart from 1975-1980; Since 2008 living in Heidelberg, Germany.
Mostly freelancing with musicians such as Johnny Griffin, Charlie Rouse, Clifford Jordan, Sal Nistico, Mel Lewis, Mark Murphy, Bobby Shew, Mose Allison, Billy Cobham, Tom Harrell, Buddy deFranco, Peter Bernstein, Cedar Walton, Lewis Nash ....
3 LP‘s and 24 CD‘s on his own label "Bassic Sound" with Mel Lewis, Benny Bailey, Harvey Wainapel, Rachel Gould, Jimmy Cobb, Mike Clark, Kenny Wheeler, Frank Foster, Lee Konitz ....
http://www.jazzrecords.com/bassic
As a member of Peter Herbolzheimer’s "Rhythm Combination and Brass" 1986-98 concerts and recordings with Stan Getz, Eartha Kitt, Philip Catherine, Al Jarreau, Chaka Khan, Charlie Mariano, Etta Cameron, David Friedman, Dianne Reeves
Recordings and concerts with the Al Porcino Big Band, Joe Haider Jazz Orchestra, WDR Bigband with Rob McConnell or Jerry van Rooyen, SDR Bigband with Bill Holman or Jens Winther and the Munich Jazz Orchestra (Projects with Joe Haider, Roger Jannotta, Kenny Wheeler & Rob Pronk), Member of the Generations Festival Frauenfeld (CH) Bigband (1998 Bill Holman - 2000 Peter Herbolzheimer - 2002 Matthias Rüegg)
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"Jazz-Preis Baden-Württemberg" in 1986
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Member of the European Broadcasting Bigband (EBU) in 1990
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Editor of the "1st German Realbook"
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Professor for double-bass at the Musikhochschule Mannheim 1996
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1999 "Förderpreis für Musik" der Stadt München
selected recordings (CD only):
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Joe Haider Orchestra & Mel Lewis: Keep Hot - 1987 Jeton
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Klaus Weiss Quintett feat. Clifford Jordan - 1988 Delta - JHM
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Roman Schwaller & Mel Lewis - 1992 Bassic Sound 005
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Bill Holman & SDR Big Band - 1994 Intercord
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Rachel Gould: More Of Me - 1994 Bassic Sound 010
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Larry Porter: March Blues - 1995 Enja
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Thomas Stabenow feat. Kenny Wheeler: What‘s New - 1996 Bassic Sound 014
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Frank Foster & J. Seefelder: Live at Feuerwache Mannheim - 1997 Bassic Sound 015
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Peter Herbolzheimer RC & B + Dianne Reeves: Colours of a Band - 1997 Koala
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Johnny Griffin-Sal Nistico-Roman Schwaller: 3 Generations of Tenorsax - 1997 jhm
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Thomas Stabenow: Straight Four" feat. Ack van Rooyen - 1999 Bassic Sound 018
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Roman Schwaller feat. Jimmy Cobb "Live at Nachtcafe" - 1999 Bassic Sound 019
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Thomas Stabenow: Straight Four II feat Lee Konitz - 2000 Bassic Sound 020
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Roman Schwaller Nonet "The Original Tunes" - 2001 jhm
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Munich Jazz Orchestra & Kenny Wheeler "Sometime Suite" - 2002 Bassic Sound 026
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Thomas Stabenow „12 Miniatures for Clarinet & Piano“ – 2003 Pirouet
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Eva Mattes: Language Of Love - mad cat 2006
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Robert Lakatos „You And The Night And The Music“ (CD + LP !!!) - Sawano 2008
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Thomas Stabenow „Die Klavierstücke“ – Rainer Böhm, p - Bassic Sound 035 2008
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Stephanie Neigel/Thomas Stabenow "face en face" - Bassic Sound 036 2012
BERNHARD SPERRFECHTER
guitarist, composer, arranger, producer
 live (excerpt)• Guitarist in local bands (ab 1978...)
• Member of the SBF Big Band Bad Friedrichshall two time winner of the competition "Jugend jazzt ..." 1980/1982)
• Studies at the Conservatorium voor Muziek, Maastricht (Jazz / Popular music) sessions including with Chet Baker, Charlie Green etc.. Follows teaching courses with Garrison Fewell, Al de Fino (Berklee College of Music)
• Guitar duo with Leon Mennen
• Member of Bobby Burgess Big Band Explosion, Stuttgart from 1988-1994
• Member of the "Stephan Zobeley Band" of 1993-1996
• Collaboration with the singer Jutta Glaser 1992-2006
• SHS Trio with Heinz Dieter Sauerborn and Hanns Höhn
• Band „Public Sound Office“ with Thomas Siffling
• Own jazz series "Mardi Jam", Altes Badhaus Eberbach (2001-2008)
• Numerous performances and tours (including the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Estonia, Bulgaria, Austria, Switzerland, United States) Studio (excerpt) • Numerous studio, radio and television productions HR, SWR, WDR, Belgian Radio, Bulgarian Broadcasting, Radio Estonia
• CD productions (opposite) Unterricht und Workshops • Head of Music School of the city of Speyer (from 2012)
• Teacher for guitar and ensemble music school Eberbach (Head of Department Jazz + pop, Educational overall coordination) (until 2012)
• Instructor for guitar, ensembles and harmony at the Frankfurt Music Workshop. (since 1995)
• Numerous workshops (including Euro Music Festival Offenburg, Guitar Days Wiesloch, Nordkolleg
Rendsburg, Musikhochschule Frankfurt) CD-productions • Carol Vanwelden „Don´t Explain“
• Barbara Lahr Trio "Six String Call"
• Hot Four | Die heissen Vier
• Sauerborn-Höhn-Sperrfechter - SHS
• Hot Four | Die heissen Vier „Rockfour“
• Thomas Siffling und Public Sound Office "Human Impressions"
• S-H-S, Sauerborn-Höhn-Sperrfechter "Better Days"
• Hot Four Creole Jazz Band „Gestatten wir heissen Vier...“
• Jutta Glaser "Little Girl Blue"
• Jutta Glaser "Moondance"
• Nike Mrugalla „Meditation und Entspannung“
• Gerd Mayer Mendez "Alone2Gether"
• Schott Verlag „Klangstrasse“
• Traffic Jam „On Silent Streets“
• Sybille Schleicher "Ach das Herz tät´mir zerbluten“
• Fromaasch "On Voyage"
• Michael Demmerle Quartett "Chandra"
• Leon Mennen "Guitar Forms"
• Stephan Zobeley "Zobel"
• Benjamin Wittiber "Cool Vibes"
DANIEL PRANDL piano, composer, arranger
Daniel Prandl is born 17th of November 1979 in Burghausen / Salzach.
 Music is part and parcel of his life since he was four years old. Later, as a teenager, he relates to jazz. A love, he never lost hold of.
Consequently he studies at the University for Music and Performing Arts, Mannheim and at the Sibelius Academy, Helsinki.
Meanwhile one of the most recognized piano players in Germany, Daniel is part of various projects and causes sensation in a mainstream context like Dirik Schilgen's Band JazzGrooves as well as with his Duo with trumpet player Thomas Siffling. With the Band "Schlag auf Schlag" he accompanies Radio- & TV-Shows for NDR, WDR and SWR. Apart from that, he works constantly for theaters like the Nationaltheater Mannheim or the Capitol, Mannheim.
Highlight for the time being is the release of Daniel's first album as a leader: "Fables & Fiction" is released June 8th 2012 on jazz'n'arts. And it's certainly not the last one…
„[...] Dass er dabei eigene Akzente setzen wird, dafür bürgt seine außerordentliche Qualität. Prandl, ein Meister verblüffender Improvisationswendungen, vereint in seinem Spiel treibenden Swing und kristalline Bebop-Härte mit den Subtilitäten der klassischen Musiktradition.“ Mannheimer Morgen
Education
• 2001- 2002 studies at the music college, Regensburg | certified musician for popular music
• 2002- 2007 studies at the Staatl. Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim w/ Prof. Joerg Reiter
• 2006 Diploma Jazzpiano (1,0)
• 2007 Master of Music (1,0)
• 2007/08 studies at the Sibelius Academy, Helsinki w/ Jarmo Savolainen
• Furthermore studies/masterclasses/workshops w/ Martin Schrack, Jürgen Friedrich, Karsten Gorzel, Tom van der Geld, Thomas Stabenow, Jürgen Seefelder, Michael Küttner, David Liebman, Armen Donelian, Jukkis Uotila, Markus Ketola, Joe Lovano, John Goldsby, Andy Middleton, Jamey Aebersold, David Baker etc. Teaching 2005 tutor as substitue for Prof. Joerg Reiter at the Musikhochschule Mannheim.
• 2005-2007 and 2008-2013 teacher at the public music school, Viernheim for jazzpiano and keyboard, since 2009 also teacher for jazztheory
• 2006-2007 tutor for Piano as second instrument at Musikhochschule Mannheim.
• since 2008 lecturer for jazzpiano at Musikhochschule Mannheim
References
• 2005 Awarded for outstanding soloing at the national competition of universities in Hamburg, Germany. First Prize with the Mannheim Jazz Orchestra.
• 2006 Annual IASJ Conference in Louisville, Kentucky
• 2007 scholarship awarded by the Art Foundation Baden-Württemberg
DAAD scholarship for the academic year 2007/2008
Nomination for the quarterly critics’ choice with Alexandra Lehmler Quintett (ALQ) in 2007/1 by the German Record Critics’ Award
• 2009 Finalist "Future Sound" Competition at the Leverkusener Jazztage w/ ALQ
• 2010 ALQ in the final round "Palma Comercial" Competition in Palma de Mallorca, Spain
„apart from Jazz“
• since 2007 "Silvia Dias" (Pop/Rock) CD "Love is Paramount", DVD-Production (broadcasted on german television: DeluxeTV and PremiereStar)
• 2010/11 Musical "Abbey Road", Nationaltheater Mannheim
• 2012 musical director "The Last Five Years", Capitol Mannheim
• 2012/13 Musical "Avenue Q", Nationaltheater Mannheim
• since 2012 Radio- & TV-Shows (NDR, WDR, SWR) with the Band "Schlag auf Schlag"
• 2013/14 2013/14 Musical "Company", Nationaltheater Mannheim
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