Gabriel Coburger
Gabriel Coburger (* 1967 near Hamburg ) is a German creative jazz musician ( alto , tenor soprano saxophone , flute , composition ).
Live and act
Coburger, who initially played traditional jazz with the Blackbirds of Paradise , studied from 1988 to 1993 at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater with Herb Geller and Roman Schwaller . Between 1990 and 1993 he was part of the Federal Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Peter Herbolzheimer , where he played the first alto saxophone. At the same time he took lessons from Ferdinand Povel and John Ruocco . As a tenor saxophonist, he performed with the NDR big band with star soloists such as Johnny Griffin , Lionel Hampton and Al Jarreauor Clark Terry up. In 1993 he moved to New York on a scholarship for a year to study with Lee Konitz and Dewey Redman at the New School . During this time he performed with John Abercrombie , Joe Chambers , Jack Walrath and Maria Schneider .
Back in Hamburg he formed his own quintet and belonged to the Hamburg Art Trio around the avant-garde trombonist Heinz-Erich Gödecke and to the Little Bigband of Cynthia Utterbach. Between 1997 and 2001 he lived as a freelance musician in New York, where he performed regularly with his quartet; in addition to a studio CD entitled Color Suite , he recorded the live album Before I Leave on tour in Germany . The album Introducing Nerd Network (1999) was also created together with Buggy Braune , Pepe Berns and Heinrich Köbberling .
In addition to his quartet, to which Sven and Wolf Kerschek as well as Roland Schneider belong, after his return he worked in a duo with the organist Claus Bantzer , but also with the quintet Jean Paul , which performed internationally, and a quartet with Heinrich Köbberling, Rudi Mahall and Detlev Beier . In arrangements by Wolf Kerschek, the album NDR-Big Band Plays the Music of Gabriel Coburger was recorded together with his quartet in 2008 and presented at the Überjazz Festival in 2011 . In 2012 he released the album Weirdo with his quartet, which was expanded to include Claus Stötter and Jakob Neibauer .
Coburger took part in international festivals with his own projects, for example in Sofia, Maribor, Hamburg; he also performed at Jazz Baltica (with Geir Lysne ) and at the Copenhagen Jazz Festival . He toured Taiwan and Trinidad with his own quartet. With the NDR Big Band he made guest appearances in China, South Africa and Mozambique and recorded albums with Albert Mangelsdorff , Christina Fuchs , Inga Rumpf , Norbert Stein , Colin Towns and Wolfgang Schlüter . He was also on tour with João Bosco with this band in 2007 and performed at the North Sea Jazz Festival with Bobby McFerrin in 2008 . He was also a member of Roger Cicero's big band , with whom he performed at the 2010 Montreux Jazz Festival , and of Rigmor Gustafsson's quintet . He can also be heard on albums by Ulita Knaus , Rigmor Gustafsson and Roger Cicero.
Since 2009 he has organized the Fatjazz-Urban-Exchange jazz series to invite more jazz musicians from other cities to Hamburg. As part of the Elbjazz 2012 festival , he was able to present five bands from this series with musicians such as Rudi Mahall, Matthias Schubert , Kalle Kalima , Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky and Dieter Glawischnig .
Prizes and awards
In 2007 he received from the Dr. EALangner Foundation received the Hamburg Jazz Prize, which was awarded for the first time at the time. In 2011 he was awarded the Knight Prize by the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation, which is endowed with 15,000 euros and went to a jazz musician for the first time.
Web links
- Web presence
- A life for jazz (portrait) Hamburger Abendblatt , November 15, 2011
- Strong piece (review of his album with the NDR big band in jazz thetics)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Coburger, Gabriel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz musician (saxophone, flute, composition) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | near Hamburg |