Andreas Dombert

Andreas Dombert (born November 29, 1979 in Straubing ) is a German guitarist with roots in both jazz and pop / rock music .

Career

From 2000 to 2004, Dombert studied jazz guitar at the Nuremberg-Augsburg University of Music with Helmut Kagerer and Paulo Morello . From 2002 to 2004 he was a member of the Federal Jazz Orchestra . Then he was a member of the " Claudia Koreck Band" for five years , with whom he recorded the album Fliang , which in 2007 reached number 15 in the German album charts. In 2010 he released the album "Chameleon" with his band "Dombert's Urban Jazz". The follow-up CD “16/8” was, according to “Süddeutsche Zeitung”, in 2013 “one of the most exciting albums of the year”. In 2011 he had international appearances with the guitar quartet Night of Jazz Guitars, founded in 2010 .

Dombert is involved in albums by Elli Erl , Panzerballett and Georg Ringsgwandl . He played in the Sunday Night Orchestra and Thilo Wolf's big band . In 2015 he arranged a CD for the songwriter Christoph Weiherer . With Jochen Rückert and Henning Sieverts he presented his trio debut with Enja in 2016, which according to Spiegel Online opens up "fascinating sound spaces". In 2017 he was nominated nationally for the EchoJazz Guitar.

Awards

In 2002, Dombert received the City of Straubing's Cultural Promotion Prize. The formation Dombert's Urban Jazz was awarded the culture prize of the district of Upper Palatinate in 2014 in the jazz formation category. In 2017 he received the cultural sponsorship award of the city of Regensburg .

Discographic notes

• Andreas Dombert, Helmut Kagerer: Night of Jazz Guitars ( Jazz4Ever Records 2006; "Album of the Year" according to Alexander Schmitz - AGAS)
• Dombert's Urban Jazz: Chameleon ( Double Moon Records 2010; with Peter Sandner, Lutz Häfner , Markus Schieferdecker , Sebastian Lanser )
• Coryell, Dombert, Morello, Kagerer: Night of Jazz Guitars (2011)
• Dombert's Urban Jazz: 16/8 (Double Moon Records 2013; with Peter Sandner, Lutz Häfner, Henning Sieverts, Christian Diener , Matthias Meusel)
• Andreas Dombert / Chris Gall : Duo (Acoustic Music, 2014)
• Night Of Jazz Guitars: Sound And Clouds (2016)

Andreas Dombert as a sideman

• Ecco DiLorenzo Jazz Quartet: Self-fulfilling Prophecies ( GLM 2012; with Chris Gall , Paul Tietze , Wolfgang Peyerl)
• Lisa Wahlandt & Sven Faller: Home For Christmas ( Enja 2014; with Jan Eschke , Walter Lang , Azhar Kamal)
• Weiherer and the Dobrindts: Best of Greatest Hits (Focus 2015)

Web links

• Official website
• Andreas Dombert / Chris Gall - duo
• Portrait ( jazz newspaper )
• Andreas Dombert at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Entry with the Bujazzo alumni ( Memento from December 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Dombert's Urban Jazz, on the road with the new program | Jazz newspaper . In: JazzZeitung . October 29, 2015 ( jazzzeitung.de [accessed February 10, 2017]).
3. ^ Jan Zehrfelds Panzerballett - Biography , ACT.
4. ^ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg Germany: Jazz trends: Here comes the mandolin. In: SPIEGEL ONLINE. Retrieved May 24, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Federal Association of the Music Industry: ECHO Jazz | 2017 nominees. Accessed February 10, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Culture Prize of the Upper Palatinate District: The Prize Winners 2000–… ( Memento of the original from June 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Upper Palatinate district.
7. ↑ Culture Prize. , City of Regensburg; Retrieved July 26, 2017.