Biography
German-born pianist and composer Cornelius Claudio Kreusch studied with Mal Waldron, and his 1994 debut, The Vision, included rap poetry. Kreusch’s second discharge, Black Mud Audio, made an appearance in 1995, and lent its name towards the pianist’s very own imprint, BlackMudSound Information (in addition to his touring music group), and he provides utilized the label release a close to twelve albums since, each offering his exclusive fusion of funk, jazz, and Afro noises. Classically educated, Kreusch — known as CCK by his many supporters — examined with Waldron, Mordecai Shehori, and Claude-France Journes, amongst others, including jazz tale Jaki Byard, and it is a graduate from the Berklee University of Music in Boston as well as the Manhattan College of Music in NEW YORK. Kreusch was five when he got his 1st piano lessons from his mom, traditional pianist Dorothée Kreusch-Jacob, and by age ten he previously found out jazz, a musical enthusiasm that never remaining him. He in addition has had a solid, practical, and also visionary business feeling, and may be the creator and CEO of his personal digital music business, MUSICJUSTMUSIC. Tirelessly innovative, Kreusch also writes, information, and produces beneath the guise of Goldfinga, increasing his musical fingertips into the traditional, world, ambient, modern, and film styles furthermore to jazz. But jazz continues to be Kreusch’s first like, and he offers performed and documented with a few of the most lauded jazz music artists on earth, including Herbie Hancock, Salif Keita, Kenny Garrett, Greg Osby, Anthony Cox, and can Calhoun, among numerous others.