Frieder Berlin
Frieder Berlin (born December 9, 1954 in Bad Mergentheim ) is a German jazz musician ( piano , composition ) and music editor.
Live and act
Berlin received his first piano lessons from his father at the age of three. From the age of nine, the violin was added as a second instrument. As a child he played boogie woogie ; as a teenager he performed in Saulgau with the Schwaaz Vere's Dixie Gang . In Stuttgart he studied school music and musicology at the University of Music and Performing Arts . Classically instructed on the piano by Paul Buck and Adu Faiß and on the violin by Susanne Lautenbacher , he was also a member of the university big band under Erwin Lehn . During his studies he led the seven-member Jazz Fusion ensemble as a pianist alongside his quintet , but also played as a violinist in the band Familie Draht, which was inspired by Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli .
In 1979 he went to Süddeutscher Rundfunk as a music editor, where he worked for SWR 3 as well as in the successor to Dieter Zimmerle and Hans Thomas for the show Treffpunkt Jazz , which he also moderated. Since the merger of the SDR with the SWF, he has been working as a music editor for SWR 1 . In addition, as a classical violinist, he was a member of the Junge Süddeutsche Philharmonie Esslingen .
In 1991, together with his wife Ingeborg Berlin, he founded the jazz label Satin Doll Productions , which only publishes artists from Baden-Württemberg. Frieder Berlin can be heard on albums with Karl Friedrich von Hohenzollern , the singer Jeanette McLeod and the saxophonist Regina Büchner, but also with his trio ( Soul Fingers ).
Discographic notes
- A composer portrait ( Satin Doll Productions , with Erwin Lehn, Charlie Mariano , Klaus Wagenleiter , the SDR Big Band and many others)
Lexical entries
- 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 .
Web links
- biography
- Concert review ( Hans Kumpf )
- Frieder Berlin at Discogs (English)
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SURNAME | Berlin, Frieder |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz musician and music editor |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 9, 1954 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Mergentheim |