Bernd Lechtenfeld
Bernd Lechtenfeld (* 1959 ) is a German jazz musician ( trombone , bass trombone , arrangement ) of modern jazz .
Live and act
Lechtenfeld studied at Berklee College of Music and began his music career in the early 1980s; so he worked as a session musician on Udo Juergens ' album Traumtänzer (Ariola, 1983). He was still a member of the Manfred Schoof Orchestra ( Reflections , 1985) and also played with Albert Mangelsdorff , Peter Giger and Joe Gallivan . In the following decade he was a member of the Faculty Jazz Ensemble ( Brother "K" , 1996, inter alia with Remy Filipovitch ) and was an arranger for the Federal Youth Jazz Orchestra ("Better Days Ahead" on Focus on Vocals , 1997) and various regional youth jazz orchestras. He also worked as a trombonist and arranger with Pepe Lienhard and with the NDR Big Band and the WDR Big Band Cologne . From 1989 he taught at the Josef Metternich Music School in Hürth ; since 2006 he has been the musical director of the "Jazz im Löhrerhof" series. From the 2000s he played in Georg Ruby's Blue Art Orchestra (album The Topaz Session ) and in the Bayer Big Band ( A Few Good Men , 2009), currently (2018) in the wooden band around guitarist Matthias Bolz and saxophonist Thomas Wilke and in the duo project West Side Story with the guitarist Robert Mensebach.
Web links
- Portrait page
- Bernd Lechtenfeld at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed December 13, 2018)
- ↑ Jazz for the West Side Story. Weinheimer Nachrichten, May 7, 2018, accessed on December 11, 2018 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Lechtenfeld, Bernd |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1959 |