Jakob Kühnemann

Jakob Kühnemann (born November 15, 1984 in Gießen ) is a German jazz musician ( double bass ).

Live and act

Kühnemann studied jazz double bass at the Cologne University of Music and at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris (diploma 2011); he had u. a. Lessons with Dieter Manderscheid , Detlev Beier , Martin Wind and Riccardo Del Fra . He played in the JugendJazzOrchester NRW and the Bundesjazzorchester . Since the 2000s, he has been active in Cologne both as an accompanying musician (including for the singer Hannah Köpf ) and as a band leader. He was a finalist at the European Junior Jazz Prize in Burghausen and the Convento Junior Jazz Prize NRW. With the Philipp Rüttgers Quartet he won the Zomerterras Concour in Vlaardingen .

During his career he worked a. a. with Hayden Chisholm , Barre Phillips , Ed Partyka , Jiggs Whigham, and Bill Dobbins ; He also played in the bands of Jens Böckamp , Tamara Lukasheva and Philipp Rüttgers, with Sebastian Gramss ' large-format bass mass and with his own quartet, consisting of Holger Werner and Malte Dürrschnabel (saxophone), Simon Seidl (piano) and Silvio Morger (drums ), for which he also wrote compositions. As a silent film companion, he played a. a. at the L'autre cinéma festival in Arras, at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris and at the call of the Goethe-Institut in Beirut. In 2012 he toured Benin at the invitation of the Federal Foreign Office. He won the New German Jazz Prize 2017 with Tamara Lukasheva's quartet .

Jens Böckamp : Progression ( Konnex Records , 2010)
Hannah Köpf: Stories Untold ( Double Moon Records , 2010)
Anne-Christine Heinrich : Just because ... (Artist Own Label, 2013; with Simon Seidl, Silvio Morger)
Jakob Kühnemann Quartet: Contrejour ( Unit Records , 2015)
Tamara Lukasheva Patchwork of Time (Double Moon Records 2016, with Sebastian Scobel , Dominik Mahnig and Shannon Barnett and Liora Raps)

personal data
SURNAME	Kühnemann, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German jazz musician (double bass)
DATE OF BIRTH	November 15, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH	to water