News
April 2023
Keep an Eye Jazz Award
I still can't believe that we won the Keep an Eye Jazz Award 2023 with the "Global Jazz ambassadors"!
April 2023
Charlottes Blog - months 6 & 7
@JAZZTIME
The Swiss newspaper JAZZTIME gave me the opportunity to write a monthly blog about my life in in Boston! :)
Here you can see the sixth and seventh month I spent in the USA...
April 2023
EP Recording
We just recorded our first EP in the renowned The Record Co in Boston, MA. Here are a few impressions of our studio session with our engineer Ciaran de Chaud captured by Erin Crowley
"HUG" is a European Jazz Quartett (Switzerland, Sweden, Israel) founded by Swiss saxophonist Charlotte Lang. The compositions and Charlotte Lang's variety of instruments create the foundation for their warm and contrasting sound that captivates and inspires.
The powerful and acoustic sound of "HUG" forms a unique sound journey.
Their debut album will be recorded in April 2023 at the renowned "The Record Co." studios in Boston.
February 2023
Charlottes Blog - months 4 & 5
@JAZZTIME
The Swiss newspaper JAZZTIME gave me the opportunity to write a monthly blog about my life in in Boston! :)
Here you can see the fourth and fifth month I spent in the USA...
Panama Jazz Festival
& Danilo Pérez Foundation
January 2023
We got the chance to travel to Panama and teach & play at the wonderful Danilo Pérez Foundation and the Panama Jazz Festival.
I had such an amazing time sharing the stage with so many amazing musicians and I can’t wait to hopefully come back!
Sister in Jazz - what a week!
January 2023
We had a blast! I am so thankful for this amazing opportunity.
I'm a Sister in Jazz selectee!!!
December 2023
I am so thankful. I am one of the 5 selectees of the "Sister in Jazz Collegiate Combo" 2023.
Thank you Jazz Education Network! What an honor to work with Marion Hayden!
Congrats to all of you! Kal Ferretti, Lana Drincic, Destiny Diggs-Pinto and Holly Channell! What a band!!
Swiss Jazz Orchestra
Album out!
"The Music of Pilgrim" contains mostly arrangements of Christoph Irnigers quintet, which were recorded live at last year's Unerhört! Festival in Zurich CH and is now available on NWOG Records for purchase, download or streaming on your favorite platforms here! Christoph Irniger and the SJO are a combination that fits very well. For the premiere of the collaboration last year, Irniger immediately wrote an evening-long program. A live album was created from it.
November 2022
BuJazzO meets Charlotte Lang
3 part interview
November 2022
"In our series "BuJazzO meets" we let current and former BuJazzO musicians, lecturers and composers, with whom we have been able to work in recent years, have their say. They tell you how they came to jazz, which role models they have, talk about their student days, current projects and their collaboration with the Bundesjazzorchestra." (website)
deb. SINGLES OUT NOW!
pre-order the debut album Balancing Act
October 2022
deb.s first and second singles are out! Our debut album Balancing Act is set for release in January 2023. It tells the story of relationships and the highs and lows that come with them. Balancing between emotions is sometimes destabilizing. It’s like being on a boat in the open sea.
Have a listen and enjoy our first single "Look Who's Here"!
.....And our second single "Isola".
Charlottes Boston Blog
@JAZZTIME
The Swiss newspaper JAZZTIME gave me the opportunity to write a monthly blog about my life in in Boston! :)
Here you can see the first 3 month I spent in the USA...
Berklee College of Music
Master of Music in Global Jazz
BIG NEWS!!!
I am beyond happy to announce I that me and my saxophones will be pursuing my "Masters of Music in Global Jazz" at Berklee College of Music in Boston in Fall 2022
Me and my saxophone(s)
Little feature @JAZZTIME
The Swiss newspaper JAZZTIME wrote a nice article about me, my music, my saxophones and many more.
BuJazzO & WDR BIG BAND
"The BUNDESJAZZORCHESTER plays the title "Monsieur Pf" (composer / arranger: Steffen Schorn) under the direction of Ansgar Striepens. Steffen Schorn plays the bass flute and the bass clarinet, Jakob Bänsch is on the trumpet, Roman Fritsch on the baritone saxophone, Charlotte Lang on the tubax and Paul Albrecht on the drums. Recorded as part of the final concert of the joint workshop week with the WDR BIG BAND in the WDR Funkhaus / Cologne (September 2021).
Every two years, the renowned professionals of the WDR BIG BAND meet the motivated young musicians of the BUNDESJAZZORCHESTER. For the fifth time the young musicians benefit from this lively cooperation. Coachings, workshops, exchange of ideas, rehearsals and concerts in Heek and Cologne. For the young jazz musicians is it is a unique opportunity observe the experienced colleagues during intensive rehearsals and concerts, to get advices and to exchange ideas about style and technique."
UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra
Last june I had the honor to play with the UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra feat. Jimi Tenor under the direction of Ed Partyka and at the Torino Jazz Festival in Italy.
SOFIA - Jazzbaragge Jam
After an amazing concert of the new SOFIA - Support Of Female Improvising Artists I had the pleasure to jam with great musicians. Here you can have an impression of it by Nils Mehr: