Georg Ruby

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Georg Ruby 2010 at the St. Ingbert Jazz Festival

Georg Ruby (born December 16, 1953 in Diez ) is a German jazz musician ( pianist , composer and arranger for jazz orchestra). Ruby has made a name for himself in the German jazz scene with his solo piano playing and his interactive concepts within small formations. At the same time he works as a leader of various large-format jazz orchestras.

Live and act

After graduating from the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Trier (1974), Georg Ruby studied clarinet and piano at the University of Music and Dance in Cologne . Together with other musicians, he founded the Cologne Jazz House Initiative in 1978. Since 1980 he has played as a pianist in the Cologne Jazz House Big Band ("Open Lines", 1980), for which he also composed; In 1984 he was co-founder of the "First Cologne World Orchestra". Since 1989 he has led his Blue Art Orchestra with five CD releases; In addition, he directed the Rhineland-Palatinate Jazz Orchestra from 1984 to 1997, the Berlin Youth Jazz Orchestra from 1998 to 2003, and the Saar Youth Jazz Orchestra until 2011. Ruby does not limit himself to the big band work Band management, but contributes his own material as a composer and arranger. In a smaller line-up he worked with the Cologne saxophonist Wollie Kaiser , is head of the Georg Ruby Village Zone formation , initially with Dieter Manderscheid and Christian Thomé , later with Ulla Oster and Nils Tegen , currently with Stephan Goldbach and Daniel "D-Flat" Weber. With Claas Willeke and Oliver Strauch he formed the trio Willeke-Ruby-Strauch. His project with the Luxembourg bass clarinetist Michel Pilz , Deuxième Bureau , was voted CD of the year by the New York Jazz Report in 2011 .

Ruby's concert tours have taken him to every continent; he presented himself with different formations at numerous international festivals. Georg Ruby is currently working with the Düsseldorf painter and author Johanna Hansen. Their joint work "Mein Schlafplatz mein Sprachschatz - A literary-musical-visual project" has just been published as a book-audio book. Ruby is not only active as an active musician. In 1995 he was appointed head of the jazz department at the Saarland University of Music in Saarbrücken ; In 2002 he was appointed professor there. He is co-founder of the Cologne Jazz House in the Stadtgarten as well as curator and managing director of the CD label JazzHausMusik .

Georg Ruby has been a member of the jury for the selection of the "Radio Play of the Month" / "Radio Play of the Year" of the "German Academy of Performing Arts" in cooperation with the broadcasters of ARD, as well as ORF (Austrian Broadcasting) and of the SRF (Swiss radio and television).

Prizes and awards

In 1996 he was a prize winner of the Gera German Orchestra Competition in the jazz category.

In addition to his solo appearances as a pianist, he was also very successful in a duo with Wollie Kaiser: The joint recording of Ruby Domesticus Vulgaris received the award of “best foreign production of the year” in the Cadence Poll New York in 1987.

In 2012 the production of the duo Georg Ruby / Michel Pilz , Deuxième Bureau (JHM) was voted album of the year 2011 by The New York City Jazz Record. The trio production Georg Ruby Village Zone (JHM) was voted one of the twelve best international productions of the year in 2019 by the online magazine All About Jazz .

Discographic notes

  • Wittek / Kaiser / Manderscheid & Ruby (1982) / Moers-Duisburg-Cologne / JHM 018
  • Georg Ruby - Wollie Kaiser (1986) / Ruby Domesticus Vulgaris / JHM 026
  • Dioko - Ruby-Manderscheid-Kobialka (1986) / Helix / JHM 029
  • Norbert Stein Pata Orchestra (1987) / The 5 Days / JHM 031
  • Georg Ruby & Blue Art Orchestra / Fly / rubyRec 01
  • Georg Ruby / Strange Loops (1993) / JHM 057 / with Claudio Puntin
  • Georg Ruby & Blue Art Orchestra (1999) / "Clair-Obscur" / rubyRec 02
  • Gabriele Hasler / Georg Ruby / Spider's Lovesong / FM 211893
  • Georg Ruby & Blue Art Orchestra (1999) / Clair-Obscur / rubyRec 02
  • Georg Ruby Village Zone (2002) / Mackeben Revisited-The Ufa Years / JHM 121 / with Dieter Manderscheid
  • Georg Ruby & Blue Art Orchestra (2004) / The Topaz Session / rubyRec 03
  • Georg Ruby (2008) / Personal Songbook (Piano Solo) / JHM 175
  • Georg Ruby Village Zone (2009) / Deconstruction Service / JHM 177 / with Wollie Kaiser, Ulla Oster and Nils Tegen
  • Georg Ruby & Blue Art Orchestra (2010) / Sketches of a Working Band / JHM 192
  • Georg Ruby - Michel Pilz (2011) / Deuxième Bureau / JHM 205
  • Ruby-Pilz-Weber & Brochier (2015) / Rimbaud # 4 / JHM 231
  • JassLab de Cologne feat. Georg Ruby (2015) / One and One / JHM 236
  • Georg Ruby - Johanna Hansen / My sleeping place my language treasure - A literary-musical-visual project (2016) / JHM 244 / Onomato Verlag
  • Georg Ruby Solo / Windmills / JHM 249 (2018)
  • Georg Ruby Village Zone / JHM 262 / with Stephan Goldbach and Daniel "D-Flat" Weber (2019)

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personal data
SURNAME Ruby, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Diez