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Boris Schmidt

don't ask/blame/lookat me. i'm just the bassplayer

About Me


you can hear me play with riaz khabirpour here , with maxime bender here , and with Edith van den Heuvel here , Elevator Freak Show here and David Laborier here
a short CV in the third person:
Boris Schmidt was born in Luxembourg in 1983 and began playing music at the age of 7. He started out with classical saxophone, soon followed by piano and harmony. Starting in 1998 he attended jazz saxophone workshops in Rossignol (Belgium) with Alexandre Plumacker , Nicolas Dory, Jacques Pirotton and André Klenes as his first teachers. Self-taught on electric bass since 1999, it was not until 2002 that he got started on double-bass, which was then taught to him by Marc Demuth. The double bass quickly became his instrument of choice, and since 2003, Boris has been attending lessons at the Royal Conservatory of Den Haag (NL), studying with the likes of Hein van de Geyn, Frans van der Hoeven, Uli Glaszmann, John Ruocco and Eric Ineke and obtaining his bachelor of music degree in 2007. He is now mainly active as a jazz musician in the Be-Ne-Lux area, but also ventures into different musical realms like for example early music (with “ l’Arpeggiata ”).Musicians Boris has performed with include Erwin Vann, Michel Pils, Ro Gebhardt, Didier Lockwood, Eef Albers, Randy Brecker, Felix Simtaine, Steve Houben …
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here's a little video with the David Laborier Band:

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/20/2007
Band Website: contact : [email protected]
Band Members:Boris Schmidt Trio :
Walter Wolff -piano , Francisco Medina -guitar // acoustic,melodic,low-volume-jazz
David Laborier Band :
Marc Mangen -piano Michel Mootz -drums , Boris Schmidt -acoustic and electric bass , David Laborier -guitar // oddmetery nu-jazz from luxembourg with a heavy rock-influenced sound

Edith van den Heuvel & Band :
Donald Regnier - guitar, Boris Schmidt - double bass, Yves Peeters - drums Edith van den Heuvel -voc // vocal jazz, standarts and some arranged popsongs
ElevatorFreakShow:
lovorka holjevac (voc) boris schmidt (db) nikola tosic (tp) francisco medina (g)

Fabrizio Graceffa Quartet:
Peer Baierlein -tp Fabrizio Graceffa -gr Herman Pardon -drs

Chrystel Wautier:
Chrystel Wautier -voc Quentin Liègeois -gr
Influences: Ray Brown, Sam Jones, Percy Heath, Paul Chambers, Hein van de Geyn, Charles Mingus. plenty non bassplayers too...
everybody i ever played with
Sounds Like:

photos by Pierre Grandidier and Yannick Schmidt
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Arpeggiata pics

i took quite a few pictures while touring with early music group l'Arpeggiata.here are the ones from the Azores islands. more to come.... ...
Posted by Boris Schmidt on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 03:33:00 PST

Hein's bassmethod

finally! Mr. Hein van de Geyn's Bassmethod is available. i can only recommend this book. it will give you insight in the working of music and guide your practicing. more info: here have a great day!...
Posted by Boris Schmidt on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 02:26:00 PST

new CD out!

finally David Laborier's long awaited album "Ye Ole Truckstop" is out. I'm very happy to be part of that band and proud to announce that you can find two of my compositions on this new CD. for more in...
Posted by Boris Schmidt on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 06:36:00 PST