Günter Christmann

Günter Christmann (* 29. November 1942 in Srem ) is a German free jazz - trombone player , bassist , cellist and composer and multimedia - dramaturge .

Live and act

Christmann played in the international free jazz scene since the late 1960s, was a trombonist a. a. Member of the ensembles of Rüdiger Carl and Peter Kowald , worked for a long time in a duo with the drummer Detlef Schönenberg and from 1973 to 1986 in the Globe Unity Orchestra . The first recordings for the free jazz label FMP were made in the early 1970s . Later he also played with Maarten Altena and Michel Waisvisz . In 1979 he founded the project Vario , an improvisation ensemble with changing line- ups , which still exists today . a. with Phil Minton , Maggie Nicols , Sven-Åke Johansson , Christian Munthe , Thomas Lehn , Alexander Frangenheim , Axel Dörner . From 1987 to 1994 he was a member of Wolfgang Fuchs ' King Übü Orchestra . Under the name Carte Blanche he performed with bassist Torsten Müller .

Christmann is also active as a dramaturge in the field of music theater, especially dance theater (with Pina Bausch and Elisabeth Clark , among others ), with multimedia forms of representation and with experimental music films.

Discography (selection)

Recordings as a leader

• Off (Moers Music, 1976-78), various line-ups
• Solo (Ring Records, 1976), solo music for trombone and double bass
• Honsinger / Christmann Duo (Moers Music, 1978) with Tristan Honsinger
• Vario II (Moers Music, 1980) with Paul Lovens, Maggie Nichols , John Russell , Maarten Altena
• One To (Two) (Okkadisc, 1997)
• Alla Prima (Concepts of Doing, 1997) with Alexander Frangenheim
• Here Now (Concepts of Doing, 1998) with Evan Parker
• Vario 34-2 - * Water Writes Always in * Plural (Concepts of Doing, 1998) with Alexander Frangenheim , Mats Gustafsson , Thomas Lehn , Paul Lovens , Christian Munthe
• Mal d'Archive (Concepts of Doing, 2001) with Serge Baghdassarians , Boris Baltschun
• (For) Friends and Neighbo (u) rs (Concepts of Doing, 2002) with Phil Minton

Recordings with the Globe Unity Orchestra

• Improvisations (Japo, 1977)
• Compositions (Japo, 1979)
• Intergalactic Blow (Japo, 1982)
• 20th Anniversary (FMP, 1986)

literature

• Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler, Christian Pfarr: Reclam's Jazz Guide . 4th, revised and supplemented edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-15-010355-X .
• Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide of Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .

Web links

• Works by and about Günter Christmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography and discography