Avenue E. Christoph Spendel Group

• 1 Avenue E. 05:41
• 2 Fuerteventura 05:47
• 3 Amaysing Colours (For Lyle Mays) 08:27
• 4 Moreton Island 05:38
• 5 Luca by Sunlight 07:31
• 6 Tamara's Smile 06:04
• 7 Early Sunday Morning 07:23
• 8 Summer Samba 07:36
• 9 Tampa Bay 07:53
• 10 Unknown Events 07:16
• 11 Canary Skies 09:22
• 12 An Evening in New York 07:28
• Total Runtime 01:26:06

Info for Avenue E.

A new chapter in the history of the legendary Christoph Spendel Group, with international musicians from all around the world. The „CSG“ has been touring Europe in the eighties and nineties and is now back on road with new music from contemporary influences, between jazz, latin, pop and world.

The basic idea for the new edition of the Christoph Spendel Group – CSG – came after the return from our summer vacation in 2019 with my family on „Fuerteventura“ while watching the „Canary Skies“ from the plane. Within a few days those two compositions as well as a few other new songs and sketches came to life. The first new CSG started with rehearsals and a few concerts around town before being put on hold by the unpredictable Corona lockdown. But life went on with a new lineup.

I met bassist Thomas Heidepriem in the seventies while touring with guitarist Michael Sagmeister and shortly after that Peter Klohman and Martin Standke – two burning musicians from the Frankfurt scene – were born, and luckily everyone of these guys was available at the time of my call. Lots of rehearsals established the new music and a performance form, we never ever dreamed about: stream concerts without audience. And we did lots of them around Germany, since they became a new reality. Please meet my family on „Tamara´s Smile“ and „Luca By Sunlight“ as well as my trips to „Tampa Bay“ in Florida and „Morton Island“ in the Pacific Ocean, east of Australia.

Unfortunately a lot of great musicians have left us in recent months. One of them, the great pianist and keyboardist Lyle Mays. „Amaysing Colours“ is dedicated to and inspired by him.

With additional new and old compositions of mine we started the recording session and later the mixing procedure in our studios around Frankfurt.

The music is generated by the musicians and destined for listeners, who are openly interested in Pop, Latin, Classical and of course Jazz, somewhere "Between The Americas And Europe".

During the lockdown we could sometimes hardly leave our residential areas.

Peter Klohmann, saxophone
Thomas Heidepriem, bass
Martin Standke, drums
Christoph Spendel, piano, keyboards

Christoph Spendel
German born composer of TV and Film music, internationally acclaimed jazz pianist with a musical career that spans over four decades, recording and performing artist, professor at the University of Frankfurt - Christoph Spendel - started with classical piano at the age of 5. Inspired by the music of Oscar Peterson and Miles Davis, Christoph Spendel entered the Jazz scene 10 years later.

He gave his debut at the Berlin Philharmonic Hall in 1975 with the band Jazz Track and performed with German jazz-greats such as Albert Mangelsdorff and Klaus Doldinger. In 1992 he moved to the USA and became a member of the New York based band Special EFX. High on the agenda were performances at the legendary Blue Note Club, as well as concerts in Chicago, Los Angeles and Puerto Rico, etc. After returning to Germany he started his own projects with concerts around Europe as well as in Australia, Canada, Cuba, Russia and Israel.

While still in New York, he started producing music for renowned TV stations such as CNN and NBC, something he continued upon his return to Europe. His music, produced in his own studio has also been appreciated by German TV stations ARD, ZDF, ARTE – to name just a few.

Among his most recent credits is the work for the international operating 22D Music Company and ECO Media. For the last 30 Years he has been producing his own bands as well as other artists for Blue Flame Records. He works in his own studio and lives with his family in downtown Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

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