Bernt Laukamp

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Bernt Laukamp (* 1946 ) is a German jazz trombonist (also bass trombone , tuba and sousaphone ) and composer.

Live and act

Laukamp first learned the harmonica at the age of four, later piano, then guitar. At the age of fifteen, under the influence of Dixieland experiences, he switched to the trombone and founded his first band with the Star Street Stompers . In the next few years he played dixieland, swing , blues , bebop and soul jazz . He studied trombone with Vinko Globokar at the Cologne University of Music and became increasingly interested in new music . He also worked with Mauricio Kagel and Clarence Barlow and played in the Musica Negativa ensemble founded by Rainer Riehn and Heinz-Klaus Metzger , which performed works by John Cage , Morton Feldman and Dieter Schnebel . He also emerged as an interpreter of contemporary music in the Brass Art group ; In 1975 he also took part in the Free Music workshop in Berlin as a member of a large brass ensemble led by Vinko Globokar . In the same year he became a member of Harald Banter's media band . He also pursued his own projects and was the co-director of the Ocean Orchestra , in which Herbert Grönemeyer first appeared as a singer. From 1982 to 2011 he was a member of the WDR Big Band Cologne , with which he was involved in numerous album productions. He has also performed with the Atlanta Jazz Band since 1986 .

Laukamp is also active as a composer. He lives with his wife, the early music expert and university professor Ursula Schmidt-Laukamp , in Oberbergischen.

Laukamp said goodbye to the official working life with the WDR Big Band on April 1, 2011 with the concert Bernie's Tunes in Cologne's Stadtgarten , in which Billy Cobham was also involved.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For Example. Free music workshop
  2. ↑ Bernie's Tunes - The Farewell Concert
personal data
SURNAME Laukamp, ​​Bernt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1946