Colin Dunwoodie

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Colin Dunwoodie (born September 30, 1945 in Glasgow , † November 4, 2008 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a British modern jazz musician ; he played alto, soprano and tenor saxophone, clarinet and flute and, from the 1990s, also bass clarinet.

Live and act

Dunwoodie was trained as a classical solo clarinetist from 1958. As an autodidact , he switched to the saxophone in 1962. From the mid-1960s he played in R&B and soul bands, a. a. on tours with Ben E. King , The Drifters and Duane Eddy . In 1969 he moved to Germany, where he initially appeared mainly in American clubs. In 1976 he was co-founder of the world jazz formation Leaf . In the 1980s he was also a member of the jazz rock band Gustav Rabe (LP 1984 of the same name). With the Rothengrund Art Ensemble founded in 1989 , which existed until 1995, he made guest appearances at numerous festivals. As a member of the metropolis-projekt ensemble , which specializes in the contemporary dubbing of silent films, he was a member of the world a. en route at the invitation of numerous Goethe Institutes.

The ensemble opened the Manila International Film Festival in 1995 with the new setting of Fritz Lang's “ Metropolis ” . They have toured Germany, Europe, the United States and Mexico. They then set other silent film classics to music, including Die Nibelungen and Murnau's Faust film . He also played with his quartet, founded in 1988, as well as in the Berry Blue Band and with the African band Akumamba Molongua . Dunwoodie worked as a studio musician and also taught.

Discographic notes

  • Leaf: The Groove Combination (1982, with Volker Kriegel , Georg Crostewitz, Frank Itt, Ulli Ost, Thomas Bettermann , Hans Peter Ströer , Evert Fratermann, Wilson de Oliveira )
  • Rothengrund Art Ensemble (1991, with Ernst Seitz, Udo Brenner, Günter Bozem, Silvia Sauer and Stefan Seitz)
  • Glad to See You (1993)
  • Some Other Trio: A Tale of Three Ducks (1996, with Silvia Sauer and Ernst Seitz)
  • Leaf: Vagabundo (2007, with Georg Crostewitz)
  • Berry Blue Band: Moon in Blue (2007, with Siegfried Bäuerle-Keßler, Julian Keßler, Markus Hofmann and René Christmann)

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SURNAME Dunwoodie, Colin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Glasgow
DATE OF DEATH November 4, 2008
Place of death Frankfurt am Main