Results for "Berlin"

Robert Lingnau

Born: December 15, 1973

Graduate music arranger and composer that works for a wide array of styles and ensemble sizes.

Arthor von BLOMBERG

Born: January 7, 1956

Born in New York studied with Al Miller, Jim Chapin, Fred Gruber. Performed with Chet Baker, Bob Haggart, Anita O'Day, Richie Cole, Sonny Russo , Frank Schifano , Jay Oliver, Big Jay McNeeley..... Commutes between Europe,Asia and North America...... Production credits with Freddie King/Eric Clapton..LAPD/KoRN ...Tommy Schneller & EXTRAVAGANZA... John Stewart...... Created Broadway musical "DRUM BOOGIE" based on Gene Krupa legend. Currently in production in Europe. Plans are being discussed for U.K.and North America. More details are available at www.von-blomberg.de

Oli Bott

Born: January 16, 1974

Oli Bott studied vibraphone and composition at Berklee College of Music in Boston with teachers such as Gary Burton and Bob Brookmeyer graduating 'summa cum laude'. Since then he works as vibraphonist and composer in Berlin, received several scholarships by the City of Berlin, got composition commissions for his own jazz orchestra and had radio- and tv-recordings of many of his concerts in Germany and abroad. He won prizes at competitions such as NDR-Musicprize for Jazzconductors, Leipziger Improvisation Competition, Europ Jazz Contest and the Wayne Shorter Award, USA.

Joerg Sommermeyer

Born: October 14, 1947

JS (Joerg Sommermeyer) started at the tender age of ten with a dust-ridden 'beater' Harmony six-string acoustic dreadnought passed down from his father. While growing up in South Germany he first cut his teeth every evening around sundown while playing for his family. Later, he played in a band, hit the local scene and studied classical guitar with Victor von Hasselmann and Anton Stingl. Eclecticist in the positive sense, in broadest terms between Classical Music, Blues, Country, Folk, Rock, transforming himself into the entire variation of styles, with elements of Jazz, without fear of venturing into Pop, for the past five years, JS (Joerg Sommermeyer) has been performing with his group The Black Djemba. The band has enjoyed playing to their ever-increasing following in the Southern Germany Area and has gotten favourable reviews

Gebhard Ullmann

Born: November 2, 1957

Recording artist for Soul Note, Leo Records, Intuition Records, Clean Feed, WhyPlayJazz, Jazzwerkstatt, Between The Lines a.o. I released about 60 CDs as a leader/co-leader. I have been listed in Downbeat's Critics Poll in 2005 for the first time (Rising Stars Clarinet) and my CDs "Final Answer" and "The Big Band Project" received 4 1/2 stars and were listed in Downbeat with the best CD releases of 2004 and 2005. Please go to my website for all infos, an extensive mp3 library, downloadable sheet music and photos, bio information and news, concert dates, a discography with covers/titles/soundsamples and liner-notes for every CD, a CD order form and much more. Website: www.gebhard-ullmann.com MySpace: www.myspace.com/gebhardullmann Neil Tesser (Chicago Reader '02) about Gebhard Ullmann: " He has what critic Bill Shoemaker has called a 'razor-sharp diction' but he's also fluent in the smeary, loose-fitting phraseology that distinguishes the last quarter century of American reed work

Lina Allemano

Born: October 20

LINA ALLEMANO is a Canadian trumpeter, improviser, prolific composer, and bandleader with an active international career, performing and recording cutting-edge contemporary music primarily in experimental, conceptual, improvised and jazz settings, but also working in a wide array of other genres. Born and raised in Edmonton Alberta, Allemano moved to Toronto in 1993. She is educated in both classical and jazz trumpet and specializes in extended technique on her instrument. Allemano now splits her time between the music scenes in TORONTO and BERLIN, and she runs her own internationally-acclaimed record label LUMO RECORDS.

Daniel Weltlinger

Born: October 5, 1977

Born in Sydney, Australia in 1977 and of French-Austro-Hungarian-Israeli family background, the critically acclaimed Berlin-based violinist and composer-producer Daniel Weltlinger has long been renowned worldwide for his distinctive warm sound and innovations within the genres of Gypsy-swing, jazz, Yiddish-klezmer and experimental/free-improvised music. He is frequently in demand in a recording or performance capacity, often in collaboration with an array of top musicians and ensembles in a variety of different formats, and is highly sought after for his technical and musical mastery on his main instrument

Korhan Erel

Born: August 26, 1973

Korhan Erel is a computer musician, improviser and sound designer based in Berlin. They treat the computer and electronics as instruments that can co-exist along with conventional instruments in free improvisation and other musical genres. They make frequent use of field recordings or found sounds in their instrument designs. Their music covers free improvisation, conceptual sound performances as well as structured and composed pieces, the latter mainly performed at art events and museums. They perform solo, duo and group performances with improvisers, jazz musicians, dancers and in orchestras

Andreas Willers

Born: December 5, 1957

Andreas Willers has gained a reputation as an exceptional guitar player withan incredibly rich stylistic background reaching from blues and jazz toimprovised and New Music. The impressive technical and tonaloptions at his disposal are carried by a great feeling for form and tremenuosemotionalpower. His debut release was a solo recording for the famous FMP label inthe 1980's. He has worked with Paul Bley, Louis Sclavis, David Murray a.m.m.on stage and in the studio. He also works on different forms of improvisedand composed music.

Studied guitar and improvisation with Joe Diorio (at GIT, Los Angeles), JohnAbercrombie and Dave Holland(at Bannf School of Fine Arts, Alberta, Canada) among others

Aki Takase: In The River's Flow

by Ian Patterson
November 27, 2019

After forty plus years of recording and touring Aki Takase could be forgiven for easing up a little, for pulling back on the reins. Instead, the Japanese pianist/composer's creative fire is burning as strongly as ever. Since turning seventy in 2018, Takase has released five albums--four in 2019 alone. This output of creative energy showcases the ...