Daniel Erdmann

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Daniel Erdmann at the Unterfahrt jazz club (Munich 2012)

Daniel Erdmann (born October 28, 1973 in Wolfsburg ) is a German jazz saxophonist and flutist.

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Erdmann began playing alto saxophone at the age of eleven ; as a teenager he lived with his parents partly in the USA, where he switched to the tenor saxophone in high school . From 1994 to 1999 he studied at the “Hanns Eisler” University of Music in Berlin with Gebhard Ullmann , Jiggs Whigham and Aki Takase . During this time he led the Daniel Erdmann Trio (with Martin Klein and Matthias Trippner ). With the group and Gebhard Ullmann and Frank Möbus as guests, he made recordings for Timescraper Records in 1997. Erdmann has been a member of the Momentum Impakto trio (with Kalle Kalima and John Schröder ) and Gebhard Ullmann's Tá Lam Zehn since 1998 . During this time he also participated in two CD productions by Brass Attack .

In 1999 he founded the group Erdmann 2000 with Frank Möbus, Johannes Fink and John Schröder, from 2004 under the name Erdmann 3000 and from 2005 with Yves Robert , Frank Möbus, Jean-Philippe Morel and Edward Perraud as Erdmann 3000 French Connection occurs. He toured with the group through several European countries and recorded several CDs with her.

Erdmann has been working in a duo with Jaak Sooäär since 1999 , with whom he won the 2001 Peer Gynt competition in Pärnu (Estonia). He has also been a member of Michael Thieke's Dok Wallach group since 1999 . Between 1999 and 2001 he performed with the Aki Takase Sextet (with Rudi Mahall , Henrik Walsdorff , Johannes Fink and Tony Buck ). At Expo 2000 he appeared in the Swiss Pavilion as a soloist in the ensemble group of composer Daniel Ott . He also played in the band Günter Adler with Rudi Mahall, Johannes Fink and Heinrich Köbberling , with whom he has recorded three albums since 2000 and toured Southeast Asia in 2003.

2001 and 2002 Erdmann performed in Paris with Thierry Madiot , Axel Dörner , Edward Perraud, Fred Galiay , Bertrand Denzler , Dan Warburton and others. With the group Das Kapital (with Hasse Poulsen and Edward Perraud) he produced a 4-CD box in 2004. For their album Ballads & Barricades , the trio received the 2011 German Record Critics Award .

Since 2005 he has been working with the New York choreographer Joshua Bisset (including at the Biarritz dance festival and Tacheles Berlin ). In 2006 he founded the group Berlin Calling with Carsten Daerr , Ritsche Koch , Ronny Graupe , Oliver Potratz and Sebastian Merk ; since the same year he has also been working in a duo with Francis Le Bras . He also belongs to the Ensemble Wared by Édouard Bineau .

After many years in Berlin, Erdmann moved privately to Reims in northern France as his new residence a few years ago . From there he works with his Berlin network as a bridge builder over the language barrier that is effective for quite a few jazz musicians.

The saxophonist founded Daniel Erdmann's Velvet Revolution in 2015 with the British vibraphonist Jim Hart and the French jazz violinist Théo Ceccaldi . For the first album A Short Moment of Zero G (BMC / Note 1), which was released in 2016 , Erdmann and his trio received the German Record Critics' Prize and the Echo Jazz in 2017 . In April 2020 Erdmann was awarded the SWR Jazz Prize 2020 endowed with 15,000 euros , which he is to receive on October 28, 2020 as part of the Enjoy Jazz in Ludwigshafen.

Discographic notes

Portrait 2015.

Lexical entries

Web links

Commons : Daniel Erdmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SWR 2 Jazz & Pop from April 21, 2020: Award: Jazz saxophonist Daniel Erdmann receives the SWR Jazz Prize 2020 , accessed on April 21, 2020
  2. ↑ Meetings, laudatory speech
  3. ↑ Best list 1st quarter 2016
  4. ↑ CD Daniel Erdmann's Velvet Revolution "A Short Moment of Zero G" , review by Bayerischer Rundfunk on October 28, 2016, accessed October 25, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Erdmann, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz saxophonist and flutist
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolfsburg