David Klein (composer)

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David Klein at the St. Ingbert Jazz Festival

David Klein (born April 19, 1961 in Basel ) is a Swiss musician and composer.

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David Klein is the son of the jazz musician couple Miriam and Oscar Klein . He came into contact with music and especially with jazz very early on . As a teenager he learned to play the guitar and worked as a freelancer for a while. Between 1977 and 1980 Klein worked with artists such as Kenny Clarke , Sir Roland Hanna , Billy Cobham and Kirk Lightsey, among others .

In 1980 Klein began studying at Berklee College of Music in Boston . There he discovered his love for the saxophone , which he initially taught himself self- taught. Studies with Jerry Bergonzi and Karsten Gorzel followed . Back in Europe, he founded the Kol Simcha ensemble with Josef Bollag in 1986 , in which he played drums . This was followed by concerts in Carnegie Hall , the Montreux Jazz Festival , the Ludwigsburg Castle Festival , the Rheingau Music Festival and TV appearances with Harald Schmidt and Roger Willemsen . He also toured as a saxophonist with Dee Dee Bridgewater .

Klein was active in new music , for example as a soloist in "Maratona di Danza" by Hans Werner Henze . He also composed film music with Kol Simcha , for example for Gripsholm by Xavier Koller , for whom he wrote songs to Kurt Tucholsky texts, which are interpreted in the film by the actress and singer Jasmin Tabatabai . His composition Rebbes Tisch was used for the soundtrack of Alles auf Zucker (composer Niki Reiser ) by Dani Levy . Klein played the drums for the soundtrack of Dani Levy's film Mein Führer . He and Michael Studer wrote the score for the ZDF documentary The Miracle of Mogadishu about the hijacking of the Lufthansa machine in Landshut in 1977. In 1993 he was involved in the score for the children's film Anna annA .

In 2001 Klein recorded a jazz homage to Marilyn Monroe with his David Klein Quintet . For this album, My Marilyn, he received the European Jazz Award in 2002. Klein set poems by Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger to music on the album Selma, which was released in 2005 - enveloped in longing . Numerous guest musicians such as Xavier Naidoo , Reinhard Mey , Sarah Connor , Ute Lemper and Thomas D took part in the album . Together with Olivier Truan, Klein composed the music for the musical Marilyn , which was premiered in 2006 at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich .

In 2008, Klein composed and produced the song Therefore I'm Here with Amadeus Paulussen for Thomas D's third solo album from Die Fantastischen Vier . Klein composed the ballad In Love for a While , with which Anna Rossinelli reached the finals of the best 25 entries for Switzerland at the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Düsseldorf, but came in last. In 2010, Klein directed the audio book Im Exuberance , Hannelore Elsner's autobiography ; In the same year he accompanied Elsner on a musical tour to read texts by Truman Capote . In 2011 Klein produced the CD Eine Frau and in 2016 What do you say to people when you are sad? , 2020 deer hunt, by and with Jasmin Tabatabai; he was also the musical director and played along.

Klein runs the Volkshaus Studio in Basel with sound engineer Daniel Dettwiler .

Polemics

In January 2014, criminal proceedings against Klein were opened by the Basel-Stadt public prosecutor for racist postings and Nazi comparisons on his Facebook page. Although Klein has in the meantime apologized for the comments, he was prosecuted in the first instance for his comments. He challenged the judgment; the appellate court did not evaluate Klein's statements as racial discrimination and acquitted him.

Klein is a regular guest commentator for the Basler Zeitung , with which he repeatedly provoked contradictions and replies. There he wrote an article in 2015 in which he sharply criticized the attitude of the Swiss Protestant Churches' aid organization towards Israel. The Aid Organization of the Evangelical Churches in Switzerland then filed a lawsuit against the publishing medium for violation of personal rights. In the article “German Thoroughness” he described Hitler as Angela Merkel's official colleague .

Discography (selection)

  • David Klein Quintet: My Marilyn (2002)
  • The World Quintet: Selma - Wrapped in Longing (2005)
  • OST: My Guide (2007)
  • Jasmin Tabatabai A Woman (2011)
  • Jasmin Tabatabai What do you say to people when you are sad (2016)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Criminal proceedings against David Klein opened in the Tages-Anzeiger , January 22, 2014
  2. ^ Indictment against David Klein withdrawn, Tages-Anzeiger, January 27, 2014
  3. ^ Racism: Basel musicians condemn the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , May 10, 2015
  4. ↑ David Klein acquitted of accusation of racism , Basler Zeitung, December 2, 2016
  5. ^ «Basler Zeitung» explains what Merkel could learn from her «predecessor» Adolf Hitler ( Watson ); Volker Biesenbinder Capital Jerusalem? A Christmas Tale Basler Zeitung, January 5, 2018; Roger Blum Faulty frontal attack Basler Zeitung, January 8, 2018
  6. ↑ Luther, Hitler, the Church and the Jews Basler Zeitung, March 13, 2015
  7. ↑ Accusation of anti-Semitism with consequences: Aid organization sues «Basler Zeitung» at Watson.ch, August 3, 2016
  8. ↑ Jürg Altwegg : Oath of Revelation. In the “Basler Zeitung” Angela Merkel is compared with Hitler , in: FAZ , September 12, 2015, p. 16
personal data
SURNAME Little David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel