Christof Thewes

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Christof Thewes (born January 14, 1964 in Quiigart ) is a German composer and trombonist.

Life

Christof Thewes at Jazzkeller 69, Berlin 2018

Thewes works as a trombonist and leads numerous ensembles and music projects that range from modern jazz, free improvisation and new music to experimental rock, funk and pop music.

Together with Martin Schmiddi Schmidt , he founded the Duo Undertone in 1991 , which has been expanded to a quartet since 2002 with Hartmut Oßwald and Dirk-Peter Kölsch . He has played at the Jazz d'Or festivals in Strasbourg, the EU Festival Marciaque, the International Jazz Festival St. Ingbert and St. Wendel, the Jazz Festival in the Berlin Ministerial Gardens, the Illingen Castle Festival for New Music, the Darmstadt Jazz Autumn, the Erlangen Radio Play Festival, the Nancy Jazz Festival and the FreeJazzFestival Saarbrücken.

He is currently a member of the Ensembles Christof Thewes Quartet (with Hartmut Oßwald (sax), Ben Lehmann (b), Martial Frenzel (dr)), Undertone Project , Gulden / Thewes (with Alfred Gulden ), Quartetto Pazzo (with Dirk-Peter Kölsch , Rudi Mahall and Henning Sieverts ), the big band The Ascension Factor , Yahoos , Phase IV , Globe Unity Orchestra , Die Entrühlung and many others. In the LACY POOL project (with Uwe Oberg and Michael Griener ) he dedicates himself to the music of Steve Lacy .

Thewes worked with numerous renowned musicians such as Wollie Kaiser , Jürgen Wuchner , Gabriele Hasler , Claudio Puntin , Roger Hanschel , Albert Mangelsdorff , Georg Ruby , Ralph Beerkircher , Frank Wingold , Dieter Manderscheid , Jörn Schipper , Gunter Hampel , the Neue Dresdner Kammermusik , Wolf Biermann and many others together. He plays in the Ruf der Heimat quartet with Thomas Borgmann , Willi Kellers and Christoph Winckel . In 2010 he released an album for trombone solo with JazzHausMusik ; In 2017 he played with Anette von Eichel in the duo VoicesNoisesLungs'nTongues .

From 2000 to 2011 he worked as a lecturer in the jazz postgraduate course at the Saarbrücken University of Music . Thewes writes commissioned compositions for radio, film and chamber orchestra.

In 2007 he was awarded the jazz prize of the city of Worms. Thewes is a member of the New Music network .

Christof Thewes (2nd from left), as a member of the "Ekkehard-Jost Octet", 2009 in Hofheim
Christof Thewes 2006 at the St. Ingbert Jazz Festival

Discography (selection)

  • Undertone Project - Open Circle , 1993
  • Undertone Project - From the Dark Side , 1996
  • Gutter Music , 1999
  • Gulden / Thewes - Case dead around , 2000
  • Little Big Band - A Kind of Silly Walks , 2001
  • Yahoos - Black Album , 2002 (with Joker Nies, Thomas Honecker, Jörg Fischer )
  • Thewes / Mahall - Quartetto Pazzo , 2003
  • Gulden / Thewes Little Big Band - Greyhound , 2004
  • Undertone Project - Lost Brain , 2005
  • Undertone Project - Modest Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition , 2006
  • Quartetto Pazzo - Melancholera , 2007
  • Christof Thewes Quintet - Plays the Music of Charles Mingus , 2007
  • Ensemble HKS - Nervous Meditation , 2008
  • Griener / Roder / Thewes - Squakk , 2008
  • Ulrich Gumpert Workshop Band - Suites , 2008
  • Trombonealone 2010
  • Premature Requiem , 2011
  • Griener, Mahall, Roder, Thewes: Squakk - Willisau & Berlin , 2014
  • Christof Thewes Quartet - SurRealBook - Swing to Punk, A , 2016
  • Christof Thewes Quartet - SurRealBook - Swing to Punk, B + C , 2017
  • The Disappointment - Lavaman , 2017

Web links

Commons : Christof Thewes  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. The City of Worms 2007 Jazz Prize goes to the trombonist and composer Christof Thewes . ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jazzpages.com