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Niels Klein

Niels Klein is a saxophonist, clarinetist, composer, arranger, bandleader, and professor whose Cologne work spans small groups, electronics, and orchestra.

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Career Overview

About Niels Klein

The Cologne University of Music and Dance identifies Klein as a professor, saxophonist, clarinetist, composer, and arranger. Its faculty biography also documents his founding role in the KLAENG jazz collective and work with several ensemble scales.[1]

Klein’s artist Bandcamp separates quartet, Loom, Tubes & Wires, trio, and chamber-orchestra projects. The electronic-acoustic Tubes & Wires releases coexist with reed-led small groups and Exploring Objects & Shapes rather than defining the whole catalog.[2][3]

Ensembles and Career Threads

Bands & Projects

Leader, saxophonist, clarinetist, composer, and producer

Niels Klein Tubes & Wires

The group combines reeds with keyboards, electronics, and drums in a distinct electric-acoustic format.[1][2]

Leader, reed player, and composer

Niels Klein Quartet and Loom

The quartet and Loom recordings provide separate small-group settings for Klein’s writing.[2]

Co-founder, composer, and performer

KLAENG jazz collective

The faculty profile documents Klein’s role in Cologne’s artist-led collective alongside teaching and ensemble work.[1]

Selected, Not Exhaustive

Recordings to Know

2013 · nWog Records

Tubes and Wires

Leader, reed player, composer, and producer

The album establishes Klein’s electronic-acoustic project with keyboards and drums.[1][3]

Release details

2017

Loom

Leader, saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer

Loom gives Klein’s writing a separate small-group setting within the artist catalog.[2]

Release details

2026

Brainflower

Tubes & Wires leader, reed player, composer, and producer

The later Tubes & Wires release continues the group’s exchange between reeds, electronics, keyboards, and drums.[2]

Release details

Artist-Authorized Destinations

Start Listening

Niels Klein on Bandcamp

Stream quartet, Loom, Tubes & Wires, trio, and chamber-orchestra projects.

Tubes and Wires

Open the complete label-authorized edition of Klein’s electronic-acoustic project.

Live Calendar

Upcoming Jazz DateBook Shows

No current Jazz DateBook dates are listed for Niels Klein. The career guide remains available while the calendar changes.

Evidence-Based Connections

Related Musician Guides

Connections below come from shared current Jazz DateBook bills or normalized documented performance roles—not subjective similarity.

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Sources

Career copy is original synthesis from the artist, label, and project sources below. Current dates come from Jazz DateBook event inventory.

  1. [1] Faculty biography and ensemble overview

    Cologne University of Music and Dance

  2. [2] Artist-authorized recording catalog

    Niels Klein

  3. [3] Label edition and project personnel

    nWog Records