Caroline Thon
Caroline Thon (* 1966 in Cologne ) is a German musician ( alto saxophone , composition ) of modern jazz .
Life
Caroline Thon first studied classical saxophone in Wuppertal before she went to the Berklee College of Music in Boston for a year and then completed her studies in jazz saxophone and composition with Joachim Ullrich , Frank Reinshagen and Bill Dobbins at the Cologne University of Music . In 2000 she was the only female jazz composition student in Germany. In her compositions she combines elements from modern classical music, contemporary jazz and rhythm'n'blues .
With her quintet Patchwork , Caroline Thon released two albums that have been highlighted by music critics. In 2008, together with Patrick Bebelaar , she worked on Bach's Art of Fugue from a jazz perspective. A composition commission from the State Music Council of North Rhine-Westphalia in 2009 was the starting point for the foundation of her own big band Thoneline , with which she performed at the Traumzeit Festival in 2010 and at other festivals since 2011. The CD Panta Rhei , which was presented with the large formation, was presented as CD of the week on NDR . She also maintains a trio with pianists Gunther Rose and Ulla Oster , is part of the DoubleXX saxophone quartet and is also part of Christina Fuchs' Large Ensemble . At the Women in Jazz Festival in Halle in 2014 she presented the world jazz octet Eurasians Unity for the first time , which musically operates in the spectrum between jazz, the Balkans and the Middle East and was awarded the main Ruth Prize at the TFF Rudolstadt in 2015 . Together with Christina Fuchs, she has led the large-format Fuchsthone Orchestra since 2019 , which received good reviews due to its unusual soundscapes.
Discographic notes
- Patchwork Say It! ( JazzHausMusik , 2004; with Junia Vent, Florian Weber , Pascal Niggenkemper , Jens Düppe )
- Patchwork Inner Voice (JazzHausMusik, 2008; with Junia Vent, Julia Hülsmann , Matthias Nowak , Christoph Hillmann )
- Thoneline Orchestra Panta Rhei (A-Jazz, 2010)
- Thoneline Orchestra Black & White Swan ( Enja , 2014)
- Eurasians Unity (Enja, 2018, with Tamara Lukasheva , Feruza Ochilova, Negar Bouban, Veronika Todorova, Salman Gambarov, Alex Morsey , Bodek Janke )
Web links
- Web presence
- When jazz tells stories , Passauer Neue Presse , June 29, 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ Modern jazz with a very distinctive character Aachener Nachrichten , June 20, 2010
- ↑ The Drummer Who Doesn't Want to Be a Lady , Der Spiegel , July 23, 2011
- ↑ cf. Reviews (website Bebelaar)
- ^ Thonline Orchestra: CD of the week
- ↑ Ruth 2015
- ↑ Dietrich Schlegel An unusual big band the Fuchsthone Orchestra Jazzzeitung , December 5, 2019
- ↑ Captivating big band sounds - Caroline Thon and her Thoneline Orchestra , jazzzeitung.de from September 16, 2015, accessed January 29, 2017
- ↑ Meeting (jazzthing 125)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thon, Caroline |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musician (alto saxophone, composition) of modern jazz |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |