Time flies when you are having fun... so much stuff is happening.. Since the summer we have been working on a new website as you can see, we hope you like it!
In september i've been to Asia for the first time ever, to Thailand to be precise. Alexander Beets and Saskia Laroo took us, a bunch of band leaders from Holland to Samui Jazz Festival and to Bangkok Jazz Festival organised by Hitman Jazz. It was a great experience because normally we musicians never have time to get together for such an amount of time and to get to know each other's tunes. And we met many nice Thai people and many of us, the musicians from Holland will have our cd's released in Thailand. I hope i'll get the chance to tour there again. Thai people are very friendly and seemed to like our music. I liked the vibe of them, their food and hospitality.
In october my band and i recorded the -to be released- live album at Bimhuis, Amsterdam. It was a very pleasant evening, everything just went fine and i am very satisfied with the recordings. The band consisting of Thijs Cuppen, Sven Schuster and Philippe Lemm, played fantastic stuff and I am sure you will love it! Right now i am in the middle of listening and mixing the live album which will be released in february 2011.
At the same time i am recording new tunes again for the next studio album. Today we had our first day, tomorrow and monday still to go. I am working on bookings for 2011, focussing on Germany and France, Julia Schorestene will work on France for my band, I hope we can have a little tour there when the live album is out. It looks like in april I will go to Mexico City for some weeks to record a cd with a great mexican saxophone player. I met him on internet, he discovered me via Youtube. Lots of plans, more to come, just wanted to give you a short update... All the best!! Susanne