Simon Oslender

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Simon Oslender (born March 26, 1998 in Aachen ) is a German Hammond organ player, keyboardist and pianist of popular music ( jazz , funk , blues , gospel , pop ).

Live and act

Oslender grew up in a musical family: his mother is a choir singer, his father initially gave him drum lessons, but he switched to the B3 Hammond organ at the age of five. In addition to his school days at the Bischöfliches Pius-Gymnasium Aachen , he has been playing in the Duo Twogether (today "Oslender & Cardynaals") with the drummer Jérôme Cardynaals since 2010 and won the Prinses Christina Concours competition in Amsterdam and the Heerlen Jazz Award with him in the same year . In 2014 he was awarded the JazzRockTV ›Miles Award‹ . He also won the WMC Music Award in 2012 and was nominated for the Hammond Hall of Fame in 2013 and for the Bremen Jazz Prize in 2014 .

One of his role models is Dr. Lonnie Smith , Herbie Hancock , Larry Goldings , Joey DeFrancesco , George Duke, and Frank Chastenier , who also became his teacher and mentor. Oslender performed with Dr. Lonnie Smith, Nils Landgren , Randy Brecker , Candy Dulfer and Philip Lassiter on and with the Metropole Orkest and the WDR Big Band Cologne . In 2013 he accompanied Max Mutzke and Butterscotch and in 2016 appeared at the Hammond Night with Barbara Dennerlein in Ascona in 2016. In 2018 Oslender also performed with Wolfgang Haffner at the Jazz Baltica , at the Jazz Festival of the Karlsruhe Jazz Club, at the Leverkusener Jazztage, broadcast on the Rockpalast program , and played with Bill Evans in Australia. At the invitation of the Goethe Institute , he completed a tour of Southeast Asia and also performed in Japan. In addition, he made an appearance at the 50th International Jazz Week Burghausen 2019.

Since mid-2018 Oslender has been a permanent member of the Wolfgang Haffner Band as well as Bill Evans' new line-up Bill Evans & The Spy Killers with Wolfgang Haffner and Gary Grainger on bass. He can also be heard with Haffner on his album Kind of Tango (ACT 2020).

With Twogether , Oslender has released two albums so far, in 2014 the album 50/50 (with Bruno Müller on guitar) and in 2011 Big Brothers (LN Records). He is also on albums by the funk band Pimpy Panda, of which he is a founding member, and by Marc Marshall (for whom he also arranged), by Ryanne de Bie, by Jo Didderen & l'Équipe de Rêve and by Marc Huynen Listen. At the beginning of 2020 his debut album followed under his own name About Time with mainly his own compositions and his own band on the Leopard Records label , which he presented on tour.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview JazzrockTV (from 17'54)
  2. ↑ Hammond Night with Barbara Dennerlein
  3. ↑ Karlsruhe Jazz Festival 2018
  4. ↑ Leverkusener Jazztage 2018
  5. ↑ 50th International Jazz Week Burghausen
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Haffner: Kind of Tango (Culture. Journal for Culture & Society)
  7. ↑ Twogether and Simon Oslender on the pages kwmusik.de
  8. ^ Critique by Michael Rüsenberg
  9. ↑ Simon Oslender & Band
personal data
SURNAME Oslender, Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Hammond organist, keyboardist and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1998
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen