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IMAGINARY STANDARTS
Jazz in the 21st Century
Matthias Mainz, Trompete
Kees van Zomeren, Kontrabass
Daniel Freundlieb, Schlagzeug
Imaginary Standarts is the jazz trio of the colonian trumpeter Matthias Mainz. Imaginary Standarts was more a playground than a group at the beginning. The musicians improvised together and played around with the greats of jazz history, fragments of popular jazz melodies, harmonic clichees that are sometimes the foundation, and sometimes the crowning of their music.
Even though this concert program contains many famous jazz and jazzy pieces, it doesn't break scene with the idea of Imaginary Standarts:
The three young Colognians continue to play their music with unabated enthusiasm and wit.
Matthias Mainz
Trumpet,Composition, Conception
Studied trumpet at the Folkwang College in Essen and the the University for Music in Cologne. Matthias Mainz works as an improviser, composer and conceptionalist with musicians of the jazz, new music and electronic scenes, as well as with artists and writers.
He earned the sponsors prize for jazz/improvisational music from the city of Cologne, a scholarship from the Arts and Culture Foundation NRW for the production of the CD "Mit Traumantrieb" and the custom composition "Genlabor Genesis", and spent winter 2001 in New York with a scholarship from the State of NRW.
Kees van Zomeren
Contrabass
Studied contrabass at the music universities in Den Haag and Cologne and graduated with honours. Van Zomeren is an amazingly multi-facetted musician who moves around in areas ranging from mainstream to modern jazz, improvised music, klezmer and traditional cuban music and has become a very in-demand artist in the jazz scene in Cologne.
Daniel Freundlieb
Percussion
The 22 year old percussionist Daniel Freundlieb is currently studying at the musical university in Cologne under Prof. Keith Copeland and Prof. Michael Küttner and is one of the most interesting young musicians of the upcoming generation.
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