Christian Scheuber

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Christian Scheuber (left, with Richie Beirach 2015)

Christian Scheuber (born November 11, 1960 - June 20, 2021 ) was a German jazz musician ( drums , percussion , composition ).

Live and act

Christian Scheuber first learned the flute and gained experience in big bands and in the symphony orchestra. At the age of 16 he switched to drums, with which he won first prizes at the state level at an early age. In the early 1980s he was the soloist in the world premiere of a work by Wolfgang Hofmann for percussion and string orchestra. He became a member of the Landesjugendbigband Rheinland-Pfalz. He did his military service as a drummer in the Air Force Music Corps. From 1982 to 1988 Scheuber studied at the Swiss Jazz School in Bern with Billy Brooks . During his studies he played tours and festival appearances in Europe with the City West Quartet, with which he released three albums until 1994. From 1992 to 2000 he was part of Andrey Kondakov's trio and toured with him as the first European belonging to a Russian band to the USSR, the CIS states and Russia. After returning from a stay in New York in 1991, he joined forces with Reiner Witzel , Andrey Kondakov, Olivier Ker Ourio , Igor Butman and Vladimir Volkov to form the band Interjazz , which played many concerts in Western Europe, the CIS countries and the USA . The band's rhythm section was touring Norway in 1998 with horn player Arkady Shilkloper ; the album of the project received good reviews and was awarded the "Jazz Ear Award" in 1999.

In 2000 Scheuber founded his first band, Clara's Smile , with which an album was created for Double Moon Records . In 2001 he took a composition commission from the city of Ludwigshafen as an opportunity to found the big band Kicks n 'Sticks with Frank Runhof . Since 2001, Scheuber and Markus Schieferdecker have been part of Regina Litvinova's Extreme Trio . Reiner Witzel brought him into his trio three in the red circle in 2009 . With Litvinova he belonged to the trio of Richie Beirach . He also played in the concert band of his former student Tobias Frohnhöfer .

Scheuber also worked as a lecturer in the jazz and pop department of the music school in Ludwigshafen am Rhein . On his homestead in the Palatinate community of Heßheim , Scheuber lived with his trio colleagues Richie Beirach and Regina Litvinova in an artist shared apartment. Scheuber succumbed to the consequences of cancer in June 2021.

Discographic notes

  • Witzel / Beirach / Scheuber / Oetz live (Jazzsick Records 2020)
  • Regina Litvinova Jazzsuite Shapes of 4 (2016, with Casey Benjamin , David Nelson, Jean-François Michel, Yves Torchinsky )
  • Three in the red circle Nomansland (Jazznarts Records 2013 with Joscha Oetz)
  • Extreme Trio feat. Alex Sipiagin Grizzlies (Jazz'n Arts Records 2005, with Markus Schieferdecker, as well as Reiner Witzel and Claus Kießelbach)
  • Christian Scheuber: Clara's Smile (Double Moon Records 2001, with Reiner Witzel, Olivier Ker Ourio, Andrei Kondakov, Paul Bollenback , James Genus )
  • Interjazz: From Moscow to Paris (Pao Records 2000)
  • Shilkloper - Kondakov - Volkov - Scheuber: Live in Norway (Boheme Music 1998)
  • City West Quartet Chatterbox (Brambus 1991, with Rolf Häsler, Stephan Urwyler , Johannes Schaedlich )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jazz calendar
  2. ^ Gereon Hofmann: Musician Christian Scheuber died at the age of 60. In: Die Rheinpfalz , June 21, 2021. Accessed June 21, 2021.
  3. ↑ a b Obituary. Jazz Pages, June 21, 2021, accessed June 21, 2021 .
  4. ↑ Country type . TV cultural program, March 21, 2021, contribution visit to the Jazz flat share , 30 min. Interview partner: Ulrike Nehrbaß. A SWR television production
personal data
SURNAME Scheuber, Christian
SHORT DESCRIPTION German jazz musician (drums, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1960
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 2021