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Lukas Frei

Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Composition

About Me

LUKAS FREI (trumpet/flugelhorn/composition) - Born on June 24, 1980 in Basel (Switzerland).
Currently studying Jazz Trumpet with Bert Joris (Belgium), Stephan Geiser (CH) and Composition and Arranging with Frank Sikora, Bert Joris, Klaus König and Klaus Wagenleiter at the "Hochschule der Künste" (Swiss Jazz School) in Bern and with Rainer Tempel at MHS Luzern.
Masterclasses with Claudio Roditi, Michael Brecker , Michael Mossman, Glenn Ferris, Wallace Roney, Daniel Schnyder , Cedar Walton , Derrick Gardener, Adrian Mears , Lewis Nash , Ray Vega , Matthias Rüegg...

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Member Since: 4/29/2006
Band Website: metaphon.ch
Band Members: Projects:

AYANELukas Frei (tp/flh/comp), Adrian Pflugshaupt (ss/as), Gregor Frei (ss/ts/bcl), Andreas Tschopp (tb), Benjamin Külling (p/rhodes), Christoph Utzinger (b), Rico Baumann (dr)

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TAKE OFFLukas Frei (tp), Tobias Meier (as), Michael von Rohr (ts), Hannes Bürgi (p), Christoph Utzinger (b), David Meier (dr)

www.metaphon.ch

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LF STRING GROUP Lukas Frei (tp), Matthias Kohler (ss), Lukas Roos (bcl), Christoph Utzinger (b), Rico Baumann (dr)
Rachel Wieser, Vincent Millioud (vl), Tabea Kämpf (vla), Carlo Niederhauser (vcl)

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SWISS JAZZ SCHOOL ORCHESTRA (concerts with Billy Cobham , Philip Cathérine and Andy Scherrer, dir. by Bert Joris)

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Influences:
Trumpet: Roy Hargrove, Bert Joris, Chet Baker, Miles Davis, Matthieu Michel , Till Brönner , Nils Petter Molvaer , Dave Douglas , Erik Truffaz , Freddie Hubbard, Lee Morgan, John Swana , Alex Sipiagin ...
Others: Keith Jarrett, Wayne Shorter, Stevie Wonder, Bill Evans, Henry Purcell, Herbie Hancock , Brad Mehldau , Malcolm Braff , Bugge Wesseltoft , Kenny Garrett ...
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Crossover 2008

Mi 23. April 2008 - 20:00 UhrCROSSOVER 2008 - Kompositionen für Studio-OrchesterCasineum, Luzern (http://www.casineum.ch)"Bereits zum sechsten Mal findet am 23. April im Casineum Luzern das Kompositio...
Posted by Lukas Frei on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 04:16:00 PST

Swiss Jazz School Orchestra - Live At Bierhuebeli Bern

Mo, 19. November & Mo, 10. Dezember 2007SWISS JAZZ SCHOOL ORCHESTRAThe Music Of Bert Joris & A Tribute To Billie HolidayDie Big Band hat an der Swiss Jazz School (Hochschule der Künste Bern) eine lang...
Posted by Lukas Frei on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 09:32:00 PST

Generations Fellowship Award Band 2006

I had the chance to be part of this band. The members of the band were selected from all the participants of the workshop at the international Jazzmeeting generations 2006 in Frauenfeld (CH). Organizi...
Posted by Lukas Frei on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 06:34:00 PST

Langnau Jazz-Nights 2007

Last week I was working for the Jazz-Nights Festival in Langnau (Switzerland). It was a tough week, but I met so many great musicians, had the possiblity to hear all those cats live and even played a ...
Posted by Lukas Frei on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 06:37:00 PST

Langnau Jazz Nights 2007

Again a great program for this festival in Langnau i. E. (Switzerland). It's always worth going there... great music, nice people and a beautiful place!Monday, July 23, 2007RON CARTER - GOLDEN STRIKE...
Posted by Lukas Frei on Tue, 29 May 2007 01:25:00 PST

Till Broenner & the Reunion Band

Till will be touring with this great band featuring Jim Beard (keys), Dennis Chambers (dr), Tim Lefebvre (b), Chuck Loeb (g) and Eric Marienthal (s) in summer. They played for the first time at the Ca...
Posted by Lukas Frei on Sat, 26 May 2007 03:24:00 PST

Vienna Art Orchestra

This weekend the Vienna Art Orchestra played its 30-years-anniversary program for the first time in Lucerne (CH). I went to the first of three concerts in a row and every night they play a different s...
Posted by Lukas Frei on Sun, 06 May 2007 05:47:00 PST

Roy Hargrove

Here are some video-clips of my favourite trumpet player Roy Hargrove I just found. They show the diversity of his musical activity and his wonderful bands over the years and of course his beautiful p...
Posted by Lukas Frei on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 01:58:00 PST

Masterclass with Claudio Roditi & Ray Vega

Yesterday I had the pleasure to have a masterclass workshop with the great trumpet players Claudio Roditi and Ray Vega. They are playing at the jazz festival here in Bern this week. It's always great ...
Posted by Lukas Frei on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 03:00:00 PST

Wolfgang Muthspiel & Brian Blade

Tonight I went to the wonderful concert of Wolfgang Muthspiel (g) and Brian Blade (dr). They played original music from their latest duo record called "friendly travelers". Two fantastic players and r...
Posted by Lukas Frei on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 06:32:00 PST