John Wolf Brennan / discography

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This discography is an overview of the published records by the jazz pianist and composer John Wolf Brennan (* 1954). It consists of over 50 albums, including seven solo albums. His recordings have been awarded international prizes. In 1994 the CD Ten Zentences was voted the best album of the year in the jazz poll of the music magazine Musica Jazz . In 1996 the CD Pago Libre received the album of the year award from the music magazine Jazzthetik . In 2002 he received the thirteenth “Swiss Grammy” from Schweizer Radio International for a total of thirteen CDs . The CD platzDADA! was included in the best list (2/2009) of the German Record Critics ' Award . In the publications with the Groupe Lacroix he was only active as a composer.

Albums

Solo piano

  • 1989: The Beauty of Fractals ( Creative Works Records )
  • 1991: Iritations (Creative Works Records)
  • 1994: Text, Context, Co-Text & Co-Co-Text (Creative Works Records)
  • 1998: The Well-Prepared Clavier (Creative Works Records) with Marianne Schroeder
  • 2002: Wing (Creative Works Records)
  • 2006: Pictures in a Gallery ( Leo Records )
  • 2009: The Speed ​​of Dark ( Leo Records )
  • 2012: Solo piano (iTunes Essentials)
  • 2017: Silly Blooze. In: Twenty Years of New Blues for Piano. Marcel Worms, piano (Zefir Records)
  • 2019: Nevergreens ( Leo Records )
  • 2020: Nitty Gritty Ditties (in preparation) ( Leo Records )
  • 2020: Wish you were Hear (in preparation) ( Leo Records )

Pago Libre

Different line-ups

  • 1979: Opening Seed (Zytglogge) with Agnes Ushma Baumeler, Bianca Medici and Fausto Medici
  • 1983: Down to Earth ( Plainisphare ) with Marco Käppeli , Ushma Agnes Baumeler, Thomas Dürst and Jürg Burkhard
  • 1986: Mountain Hymn ( Bellaphon Records ) with Urs Leimgruber
  • 1988: Entupadas (Creative Works Records) with Corin Curschellas
  • 1988: To Chara (Bellaphon Records) with Urs Leimgruber
  • 1988: Henceforward (Core Records) with Christy Doran
  • 1989: Polyphyllum (Bellaphon Records) with Urs Leimgruber
  • 1990: MAP (Music for Another Planet) (Bellaphon Records) with Norma Winstone and Urs Leimgruber
  • 1991: Live at Montreux '89 (B&W Music) with Urs Leimgruber
  • 1992: Blue Jazz - Live at Montreux (B&W Music) with Urs Leimgruber
  • 1993: TEN ZENtences (Bellaphon Records) with Daniele Patumi
  • 1993: Willisau live and more (Creative Works Orchestra) with Creative Works Orchestra
  • 1995: Henceforward (Leo Records) with Christy Doran
  • 1997: Aurealis (Les Disques Victo) with Robert Dick and Daniele Patumi
  • 1997: Moscow – Petuschki (Leo Records) with Martin Mayes, Daniele Patumi, Marion Namestnik, Tscho Theissing and Lars Lindvall
  • 1998: HeXtet: Through the Ear of a Raindrop (Leo Records) with Julie Driscoll , Evan Parker , Paul Rutherford , Chris Cutler and Peter Whyman
  • 1999: Minute Age (For4ears Records) with Margrit Rieben and Reto Senn
  • 1999: Nisajo ( FMR Records ) with Nicky Heinen and Alexander Alexandrov
  • 1999: Momentum (Leo Records) with Gene Coleman and Christian Wolfarth
  • 2000: Momentum 2 - The Law of Refraction (Leo Records) with Gene Coleman, Alfred Zimmerlin and Christian Wolfarth
  • 2000: Pipelines (Leo Records) with Hans Kennel
  • 2000: Entropology - The Science of Sonic Poetry (For4Ears Records) with Eddie Prévost and Simon Picard
  • 2002: Momentum 3 (Leo Records) with Bertrand Denzler , Christian Weber and Christian Wolfarth
  • 2002: Broken Dreams live (Creative Works Records) with Alexandra Prusa , Hans Kennel and Marc Unternährer
  • 2003: Klanggang (Creative Works Records)
  • 2003: Glockenspiel (Altrisuoni Records)
  • 2003: Zero Heroes (Leo Records) with Peggy Lee and Dylan van der Schyff
  • 2004: Pipelines - Live at Lucerne Festival (Creative Works Records) with Hans Kennel and Marc Unternährer
  • 2004: INITIALS (Creative Works Records) with Urs Blöchlinger , Peter Schärli , Lindsay Cooper , Steve Argüelles , Christy Doran, Urs Leimgruber, Marco Käppeli ea
  • 2004: Sculpted Sound (Altrisuoni Records) with Magda Vogel , Charlotte Hug , Shirley Anne Hofmann , Eugen Gomringer and Christian Wolfarth
  • 2004: Triangulation (Leo Records) with Christy Doran and Patrice Héral
  • 2005: Momentum 4 - Rising Fall (Leo Records) with Gene Coleman, Thomas KJ Mejer and Marc Unternährer
  • 2007: Broken Dreams: Homage to Sophie Taeuber-Arp (Ship of Fools) with Alexandra Prusa and Peter Gossweiler
  • 2007: My dearest crocodile : After Anton Chekhov The lady with the dog and letters to and from Olga Knipper (Christoph Merian Verlag) with Thomas Hürlimann and Arkady Shilkloper
  • 2008: Jodel Vol. 1 (Mülirad Verlag Altdorf) with Nadja Räss and Franziska Wigger
  • 2009: Click, click, you Sätzlinge (Christoph Merian Verlag) with Eveline Hasler
  • 2010: Whirligigs (Leo Records) with Bruno Amstad , Christy Doran and Patrice Héral
  • 2012: POYA (edition therme vals) with Daniel Mezger
  • 2012: Tarkus and Other Love Stories (Leo Records) with piano duo TwinKeys (Esther Flückiger & John Wolf Brennan)
  • 2013: Pilgrims (Leo Records) with Tony Majdalani and Marco Jencarelli
  • 2014: Dehei nöd dehei (Trio Zehnder / Brennan / Shilkloper) with Christian Zehnder & Arkady Shilkloper
  • 2016: MODE (natural sound 1986–2016) with Gérard Widmer, Fujara and Willi Grimm, didjeridu
  • 2016: Echo. The search for echo. Feature by Bettina Mittelstrass, with Christian Zehnder & John Wolf Brennan. Feature Award 2016 (Christoph Merian Verlag)
  • 2017: Pilgrims: Oriental Orbit (Leo Records) with Tony Majdalani and Marco Jencarelli
  • 2019: SOOON: YouCHz Now (Das Narrenschiff) with Sonja Morgenegg and Tony Majdalani

Groupe Lacroix

  • 1997: The Composer Group (Creative Works Records) with Moscow Rachmaninov Trio
  • 1999: Arpiade (edition edex) with Barbara Sutter, Béatrice Wolf and Michael Wolf
  • 2003: 8 Pieces on Paul Klee (Creative Works Records) with Ensemble Sortisatio

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Roth: John Wolf Brennan. Irish re-inflections . In: Jazz Podium 44 (1995) 3, p. 16.
  2. ↑ Biography of John Wolf Brennan . JW Brennan's website. Retrieved January 3, 2013.
  3. ↑ Martin Kunzler : Jazz Lexicon. Volume 1: A – L (= rororo-Sachbuch. Vol. 16512). 2nd Edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-499-16512-0 , p. 141.
  4. ↑ Leaderboard 2-2009 . Website of the PdSK. Retrieved December 27, 2012.