kool soul

Born June 4th in Munich My father comes from Berlin’s Bleibtreustraße . After the war he moved to Munich and founded the legendary dixie band Occam Street Foot Warmers. A busload of boogie-woogie and ragtime piano. After the war, my mother grew up on the Ammersee and played violin and viola. The artistic disposition of my parents cannot be disputed.I started taking piano lessons when I was 6, at 10 I expanded my classical repertoire with the cello. At age 11 I visited famous traditional clubs, like Allotria and Domizil, with my father. My first exposure to live jazz. A fascination for the music of Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Don Cherry and many others accompanied me throughout the years. The long-hair era followed at 13, with guitar and vocal accompaniment. Songwriting and street music complemented one another, I played songs but I heard jazz. After 1990 I lived and played in the Rhine and Ruhr, adding the new genre of electric, funk and acid jazz. At the beginning of the 90s I started the funk-soul-jazz project KOOL SOUL, arranged and produced the CD "In a Dream" with jazz musicians and played live in clubs and at festivals in Munich, Hamburg, Cologne and the Ruhr Basin. Also in the 90s: Live choreography and performance with the funk dance group The Zoonies in Germany. Other projects followed, such as live performances with 2 bands on stage simultaeously: same genre All by Kool Soul - In a dream