Dieter von Goetze

Dieter von Goetze (born August 23, 1929 in Kiel ) is a German jazz bassist and sound engineer.

Life

Von Goetze learned piano and bass, attended the Broadcasting Institute in Nuremberg and studied musicology at the University of Frankfurt am Main , where he eventually became a sound engineer and later a sound engineer at the Hessischer Rundfunk . He also played in Frankfurt with his own trio, with whom he appeared at the German Amateur Jazz Festival in Düsseldorf in 1957 and 1960 , won the competition there in 1960 and was presented by Joachim Ernst Berendt in the TV program Jazz - Heard and Seen in 1961 . With his trio he also accompanied Inge Brandenburg (album Don't Blame Me ). He also worked with Fritz Hartschuh ( Autumn in Europe , 1964) Günter Kronberg and Volker Kriegel ( Lost Tapes , 1967), and with guest American musicians such as Kenny Clarke , Leo Wright , Dizzy Gillespie , Eric Dolphy and Don Menza . After a stay as a radio expert in Ethiopia (1964 to 1966), he was mainly heard with Joki Freund . In the 1970s he continued to play with Volker Kriegel, with Rolf Lüttgens , Gustl Mayer and the rock jazz group From around the organist Klaus Göbel (on whose albums he also played). He was also involved in the satirical album " Pol (h) itparade ". In the 1990s he also played hot jazz with Peter Wichert's New Orleans Connection and with the Big Band Memories (headed by Klaus Pehl ).

As a sound engineer he recorded both new music and jazz and is responsible for several recordings by Albert Mangelsdorff , for example .

literature

• Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler: Reclams Jazzführer (= Reclams Universal Library. No. 10185). 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-15-010185-9 .
• Jürgen Wölfer : Jazz in Germany. The encyclopedia. All musicians and record companies from 1920 until today. Hannibal, Höfen 2008, ISBN 978-3-85445-274-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ With Jazz against Measurement Die Zeit , October 6, 1961
2. ↑ Jazz heard and seen (Jazzinstitut Darmstadt) ( Memento from January 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive )