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Christmas Jazz Trio: a project of Christoph Spendel. A very nice program of Christmas songs arranged for jazz trio. There's already a CD out on Blue Flame records. We have been touring since 2004. To be honest I would never have thought of playing these songs and some are really great! It's a lot of fun, we get to play for quite old audience but sometimes we hit the young people too and they like it! In 2005 the response from youngsters in Frankfurt and Magdeburg was amazing!


					The Claudio Zanghieri Band My compositions and musical vision. The line-up changes constantly, see the news for updates. "Envisions" it's my first CD, released by Jazzsick Records, now available in stores, on CdBaby and iTunes. The emphasis is on the compositions, melodies and sounds, with some important input and ideas from all the players. It features 3 very good friends: Tony Lakatos on saxes, Christian Lohr on keyboards, hammond and piano, and Cristiano Micalizzi on drums. Read the story, the reviews and the comments.... here's the myspace page for the news in real time....

			Bit-E A whole new project that has me sitting on many chairs.... still in the development phase, it already shows signs of electronica, club sounds, lots of soundscaping and some bass too. The band so far is me, my basses and my computer, to make things more intriguing on the stage you'll see some of my old friends at work: Benno Sattler on drums, Markus Wessel on keys, etc.... Here's the myspace page for all your favourite infos... I have this crazy idea to do it with visual images....let's see!


	Occasionally you can find me playing with:
				Christoph Spendel Electric Trio The well-known german keyboardist (Special Efx, Michael Sagmeister, Olaf Kübler, etc.) in his trio format, is rising to be the sensation in the jazz-fusion circuit. We released, after extensive touring, a CD in 2010, "Summer Notice" on Blue Flame, with Andreas Neubauer (picture; John Hammond, GlasHaus, etc.) on drums. Some other drummers that came through: Kurt Bilker, Claus Hessler,Jens Biehl and the latest Jean Paul Hochstädter (HR Big Band). We played some nice clubs (Frankfurt's Jazzkeller; Stuttgart's Bix, Topos in Leverkusen and many more) and some nice open air festival like Jazz zum Dritten in Frankfurt.

Christmas Jazz Trio: a project of Christoph Spendel. A very nice program of Christmas songs arranged for jazz trio. There's already a CD out on Blue Flame records. We have been touring since 2004. To be honest I would never have thought of playing these songs and some are really great! It's a lot of fun, we get to play for quite old audience but sometimes we hit the young people too and they like it! In 2005 the response from youngsters in Frankfurt and Magdeburg was amazing!
Latest Addition as of 2011: Zapf-Zanghieri-Zapf: two brothers we met, we jammed, we had a band! Shortly after there was a recording session and now there's a CD that's travelling to find a label....In the coming winter we should be doing some concerts in Hessen. Gernot Dechert: a well known Tenor Sax from Frankfurt has asked me to help out. I already played with the band,some fun and orginal soul-funk songs, the stuff you always wanted to play! We'll be hitting at the Frankfurt MuseumUferfest 2011 Triangle: a collaboration with Carlo de Petruzzellis (italian guitarist) and Pasquale Strizzi (italian Keyboardist) plus David Lo Cascio on drums. We live so far away that's almost funny, but we played already a few times and it's fun! We might be repeating ourselves in Rome soon!!!
		To dig into my past please check the Past Projects page!