Franz Kerschbaumer

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Franz Kerschbaumer (* 1947 ) is an Austrian jazz researcher . Since 1992 he has headed the Institute for Jazz Research at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz .

Life

Kerschbaumer studied trumpet (both in European concert music and in jazz) and double bass at the Graz University of Music from 1964 to 1972. In 1977 he received his doctorate from the University of Graz , majoring in musicology, on Miles Davis' personal style ; it was the first monographic doctoral thesis on jazz worldwide. He has been a lecturer at the Institute for Jazz Research since 1970. Between 1977 and 1988 he was an assistant there. In 1988 he was appointed full professor for popular music and jazz idiomatic musical practice at the same university; since 1989 he has also taught jazz at the Institute for Musicology at the University of Vienna .

In addition to improvisational analysis, his research and publication focuses on the history of jazz and popular music and the relationships between them. Since 1976 he has been co-editor of the two publication series Jazzforschung / Jazz Research and Contributions to Jazzforschung / Studies in Jazz Research . Since 1992 he has been the President of the International Society for Jazz Research . Franz Krieger and Bernd Hoffmann published a commemorative publication on his 60th birthday .

As a musician, Kerschbaumer plays in various Graz bands (such as the Miles Davis Project and the City Hall Jazz Band , with which he also recorded an album as a bassist).

Fonts

  • The importance of the fiddle, the violin and small string bands for the development of jazz , in: G. Grupe (Hrsg.) ... a deeper understanding of all music. Wolfgang Suppan on his 75th birthday. Aachen 2010
  • Impressionist structures in jazz , in: UJ Blomann & H.-J. Heßler (Ed.), Restless Bridge Builder: Festschrift for Ilse Storb's 80th birthday , Duisburg 2009.
  • Tonal absorptions in the development of jazz: From British Folk Music to Arnold Schönberg , in: Jazzforschung / Jazz Research, Vol. 38 (2006)
  • Celtic roots in American popular music , in: Anthropological anthologies, Vol. 20 (2005)
  • The influence of free jazz on the music of Miles Davis , in: Jazzforschung / Jazz Research, Vol. 34 (2002)
  • On the origin of the swing accompanying rhythm in folk music, in modern popular music and in jazz , in: Jazzforschung / Jazz Research, Vol. (2001)
  • Blues structures and the status of the blues in the music of Miles Davis , in: Musik und Kultur Bildung Politik, Vol. 3 (= Festschrift for Hermann Rauhe on his 70th birthday), Hamburg 2000
  • The Roots and the Development of Fusion in the Music of Miles Davis , in: Jazzforschung / Jazz Research, Vol. 28 (1996)
  • Improvisation modale dans la musique de Miles Davis , in: Musurgia: Analyze et Pratique Musicales, Vol. 2 (2) (1995)
  • Booker Little : His improvisation and composition technique , in: Jazzforschung / Jazz Research, Vol. 14 (1982)
  • Miles Davis: Stylistic studies on the musical development of his personal style , Graz 1978

literature

  • Michael Kahr : Jazz & the City. Jazz in Graz from 1965 to 2015 (Graz: Leykam 2016), pp. 174–196.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ City Hall Jazz Band Live (2004)
personal data
SURNAME Kerschbaumer, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian jazz researcher
DATE OF BIRTH 1947