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Alexander Blume (born July 19, 1961 in Eisenach ) is a German boogie- woogie, blues and jazz pianist. In the GDR , together with Jürgen Kerth , Lutz Kowalewski and Waldemar Weiz ( ergo , Engerling ) , Blume was one of the best-known representatives of the Thuringian blues scene .

Musical development

Blume began taking piano lessons at the age of eight . In 1971 he appeared in public for the first time with his brother Stanley Blume in the Eisenach Jazz Club , the oldest jazz club in the GDR, and at the age of 16 he became a member of the Traveling Blues Band . In 1978 Stefan Diestelmann brought him to East Berlin . Up until Diestelmann's flight from the GDR in 1984, Blume was a member of the Stefan Diestelmann Folk Blues Band and can be heard on the piano on the LPs “Hofmusik” and “Folk, Blues & Boogie”.

In 1985 he began studying at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin, which he broke off in 1986 for political reasons. After Stefan Diestelmann's band broke up, Blume switched to Zenit . In 1987 the GDR label Amiga recorded the first solo album with Blume.

In 1988 he founded his first band, the Intercity Blues Band, and worked with Big Joe Stolle , with whom he had already played at Zenit . The CD "Reflection in Blues" released in 1990 is a testament to this collaboration.

In 1992, Blume opened a private music school in Eisenach. Since the mid-1990s he has mainly been active as a soloist . The solo program pays homage to the traditions of famous boogie and swing pianists. Starting in 1995, guest tours regularly took him abroad. He has already made guest appearances in Sweden, the Czech Republic, the USA, Lithuania and Turkey.

The Alexander Blume Jazz Family has existed since 1998 . This formation includes his sons Maximilian ( drums ), Daniel ( clarinet , saxophone ), Cornelius ( trumpet ), Michael ( bass ) and Gunter Mlynski ( trombone ).

He founded the Alexander Blume Trio in 2003. The trio, consisting of his son Maximilian on drums and bassist Andreas Buchmann, follows the tradition of blues-oriented hardbop and soul pianists such as Ray Bryant , Bobby Timmons , Ramsey Lewis and Les McCann and is occasionally supplemented by the trumpeter Daniel Hofmann, with whom he recorded the CD "I believe in music" in 2003.

For a while, Blume works with other musicians and bands and was involved in the production of joint albums (Christoph Gottwald, Jana Wiesenthal, Undertaker Blues Band, Mama Blues Project, Kasseturm Jazzband Weimar). The latest project is the Iceland Blues Band , with whom he recorded the CD "Iceland Blues" in 2007. The band includes: Alexander Blume (piano), Daniel Hofmann (trumpet, flugelhorn ), Wieland Götze (drums), Christian Patzer (saxophone) and Ole Rausch (guitar).

Discography (selection)

LP

  • 1987: Boogie Woogie Piano

CDs

  • 1990: Reflection in Blues
  • 1994: Find your way
  • 2001: Break
  • 2002: on my way
  • 2002: JazzArt2
  • 2003: I believe in music
  • 2004: blue (s)
  • 2005: Angel
  • 2007: on the road
  • 2007: Iceland Blues
  • 2012: In & Out

literature

Michael Rauhut, Thomas Kochan (Eds.): Bye, Bye Lübben City . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89602-602-X .

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vita on the homepage
  2. ↑ scene point Nationwide ( Memento of 21 April 2007 at the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Blume, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German blues, boogie and jazz pianist
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenach