CHRISTIAN HAAG

Jazz Trumpet & Flugelhorn

Big Band Lead, Section, Jazz Chair,

Small Group Jazz

EXPERIENCES, STYLES

Contemporary Big Band Jazz

Music of Charles Mingus, Gordon Goodwin, Frank Zappa, Dave Horler

Big band swing

Cool jazz

West coast jazz

Funk

Soul

Drum & bass

Electronic

EXPERIENCES, BANDS

FH Big Band Dusseldorf, University of Applied Sciences, winner of WDR Jazz award

John C. Marshall’s West Coast Jazz

Glenn & die Millers, leader

Peter Herbolzheimer

Udo Lindenberg

State Big Band Rheinland-Pfalz

Big Bonsai

Common Language

Freelance for various big bands, small group jazz bands, funk & soul bands

Symphony orchestras playing classical music for Easter, Christmas

EXPERIENCES, OTHER

Big band workshop teacher for Musica Viva

Composition and production of commercials

EDUCATION

Steepest learning curve at Juilliard School, New York, Chris Jaudes and Eddie Henderson (and being thankful forever!)

CONTACT

Christian Haag

ABOUT | DEUTSCHE VERSION

With Steve Galloway, Count Basie Big Band and John C. Marshall, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin

With FH Big Band at Jazz Schmiede Düsseldorf, featuring Heiner Wiberny and Dave Horler, WDR Big Band, 2 Grammies

Sitting in with Glenn Franke Big Band, New York, left Frank Figuera, lead Frank Sinatra, right Tony Gorruso, lead Buddy Rich, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennet, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Spyro Gyra. Sitting in for Chris Jaudes, thanks my friend!

With Essen Jazz Orchestra at Katakombentheater

With Klangkraft Symphony Orchestra and FH Big Band, playing movie Themes and Michael Bublé songs

Radio broadcast at WDR with FH Big Band, WDR Jazz award

With Chris Jaudes at Juilliard School

Recording the music of Frank Zappa

Big Band workshop Musica Viva, Tuscany, Italy