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Jürg Solothurnmann
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About Me
JS is a saxophonist, musicologist and former editor of the Swiss national radio
M.A. Born in 1943, the saxophonist, (ethno)musicologist, writer and former radio broadcaster lives in Bern, Switzerland. As a saxophone player he evolved from jazz, blues and Latin roots to free jazz and his own concept of a multi-idiomatic music embracing jazz, new classical music and ethnic stiles and exploring synergies between spontaneity and compositional thinking. Today, his playing integrates and transforms a variety of musical approaches ranging from folklore imaginaire to speech-like or pointilist sound events. He is fascinated by the miriad of singing esthetics in world- and experimental music and favours collaborations with artists from other media. In the course of years, he collaborated with many prominent and local musicians from Europe, America and more recently the Near East and Asia – always curious about other mentalities, cultures and esthetics. His more recent/present projects include the trio Potage du Jour (with Franziska Baumann, voc, and Christoph Baumann, p), the quartet Next (with Beat Unternährer, tb, Christian Hartmann, b, and Dieter Ulrich, dr), the Swiss-Turkish quartet FreeWay, In Transit (with Michael J. Stevens, p, Daniel Studer, b, and Dieter Ulrich), the quintet September Winds (with Evan Parker), the trio Raw & Cooked (with Michel Wintsch and Christian Wolfarth), the Swiss-Chinese trio Hao Qi and changing formations with the classical pianist Katharina Weber. www.solothurnmann.com
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This page was last updated on 2018-08-07.
