In 1997 after having created a jazz-brass-quintet – together with Jürgen Roth – the idea of „a little big-band“ hasn’t got out of his mind: He wanted to use the whole sound-spectrum of a trumpet, to have a lot of space for improvisation and the necessary basics for the high-note-interludes. Kunze started to arrange two of his compositions for two saxophones, three trumpets, trombone, percussion, bass and piano. In autumn 2004 he met selected musicians for recording. Impressed by the great result, he arranged more pieces with great enthusiasm. In February 2006 he organized the first official concert with the „Firehorns“. In May new recordings came into being in the studio of Mattel Dörsam, in autumn 2006 the first CD „Let’s swunk“ has been released.
