Kuno Schmid

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Kuno Schmid , partly also Koono , (born December 20, 1955 ) is a German fusion musician ( keyboards , synthesizers ), composer , arranger and music producer .

Live and act

Schmid is the son of the concert pianist, composer and music producer Wilhelm F. Schmid. He began playing the piano at the age of four and began taking lessons from the age of six. At the age of 16 there was the first recording session as a jazz pianist, at the age of 19 the first engagements as a studio musician for the record label Intercord . Schmid studied piano and composition at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts with Harry Pleva , Peter Dorosieff , Konrad Richter , Erhard Karkoschka and Ulrich Süsse .

In 1977 he founded the Gipsy Nova ensemble with the singer Kitty Winter , with whom he also toured for the Goethe Institute . Since 1984 he has worked with Peter Horton as arranger, pianist and musical director of his television shows (“Cafe in Takt” and “Come on, I'll show you my world”) and tours; Together with Horton and Toots Thielemans , the album Guitarero (1985) was created. From 1985 to 1999 he was musical director and arranger for the trumpeter Walter Scholz , with whom numerous recordings were made, including dream melodies (two gold records in 1987/88 ). There were also meetings with Joe Zawinul and collaboration with Caterina Valente / Rias Bigband .

In 1987 he recorded his first fusion / world music album under the name Koono ("Senegal" / Hot Wire Records). Further albums on the New York label "Big World Music" followed under this name. In 1990 and 1993 he was the focus of Werner Kägi's television concerts for the Swiss SRG ("Jazz In") under his own name, with Robben Ford , Russell Ferrante and Alex Acuña and Ernie Watts , Jerry Goodman , Brian Bromberg, Werner Schmitt and Christoph Stiefel . He can also be heard on albums by Zipflo Reinhardt , Reinhard Mey , Biréli Lagrène , Juraj Galan , Manfred Krug and Andreas Öberg .

From 1995 he worked closely with Reader's Digest on around 600 titles as arranger, pianist and producer. He also produced albums by Angela Hagenbach, Jermaine Landsberger / Pat Martino , Claudio Roditi and Zipflo Weinrich and arranged for Cathy Rocco, Christian Howes , Lori Bell, Mike Garson, Greta Matassa and Eddie Daniels .

Prizes and awards

Schmid received the Baden-Württemberg Youth Jazz Prize in 1975 as a jazz pianist with his own trio. In 1976 he won first place and with Kitty Winter Gipsy Nova the special prize at the international jazz competition in Nagold. In 1978 he and Kitty Winter were nominated for the German Record Award for the album Feel It . In 1996 he received the Ernst Fischer Prize of the GEMA Foundation. In 2006 he was honored with an Annie Award for composition for the Disney film documentary "Dream On Silly Dreamer". In 2010 he received a Grammy Award with the Resonance Big Band, which he conducted, for the interpretation of an arrangement by Bill Cunliffe .

literature

  • Bert Gerecht Mr. Bassman goes deep: A picaresque novel from the Frankfurt scene . 2018 pp. 344–348

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personal data
SURNAME Schmid, Kuno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koono (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fusion musician, composer, arranger and music producer
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1955