Falk Breitkreuz

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Falk Breitkreuz at a concert at Jazz We Can in Bad Marienberg

Falk Breitkreuz (* 1964 in Neuruppin ) is a German jazz musician ( bass clarinet , soprano , tenor and alto saxophone ).

Live and act

Breitkreuz studied saxophone and clarinet from 1978 to 1984 at the "Hanns Eisler" University of Music in Berlin . From 1987 he was a member of the groups Bajazzo , Isle of Eyesland and Pascal von Wroblewsky . In 1993 he founded his own trio.

In the late 1980s he worked a. a. with Volker Schlott and Gisbert Piatkowski in the Mama Blues Project , with which the album Stormy Spring was recorded in 1989 . From 1989 to 1991 he played in the orchestra of the Berlin Friedrichstadtpalast and from 1991 in the Babelsberg film orchestra as first alto saxophonist. From 1989 to 1995 he was teaching at the Hanns Eisler Music Academy in Berlin.

Breitkreuz played with Rudi Neuwirth ( sand ) in 1995 ; from 1995 he was a member of the Rolf von Nordenskjöld Orchestra, in 1996 in the group Just for Brass . Breitkreuz has been part of the Fun Horns group with Jörg Huke , Volker Schlott and Rainer Brenneke since 1998 . He also worked in the 1980 / 90s a. a. with Ray Charles , Chaka Khan , Helen Schneider , Udo Lindenberg , Peter Herbolzheimer , Jocelyn B. Smith and Chris Barber . From 2002 he was a member of Marc Muellbauer's band Kaleidoskop . In 1990 he also played with Ulf and Zwulf from Ulf Erdmann and Ralf Kleinschmidt ( Knaatsch Am Sonntag on Amiga ) and in 2002 took part in the album Here Come The Days Of by the rock band Bazooka Cain .

From 2011 he plays in the jazz formation Triologic , which has been expanded to a quartet and consists of Christoph Niemann (bass), Thomas Andelfinger (guitar) and Rüdiger Ruppert (drums).

Discographic notes

  • Neuwirth: Sand (Traumton, 1995)
  • Fun Horns - Songs For Horns (Fun Horns Music, 2001)
  • FaVo Duo: Favo Rites 204 (FHM, 2010) with Volker Schlott

Web links

Commons : Falk Breitkreuz  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Portrait at Fun Horns
  2. ↑ Falk Breitkreuz at Discogs (English)
  3. ↑ Triologic website
personal data
SURNAME Breitkreuz, Falk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuruppin