Hans Lüdemann

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Hans Lüdemann (born September 14, 1961 in Hamburg ) is a German jazz pianist .

Hans Lüdemann (2010)

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Lüdemann studied classical piano at the Hamburg Conservatory from 1980 to 1982 and also had jazz lessons with Joachim Kühn , Jasper van't Hof and Walter Norris . From 1982 to 1988 he studied jazz piano at the Cologne University of Music with Frank Wunsch , Rainer Brüninghaus , Manfred Schoof and Jiggs Whigham . From 1985 to 1986 he taught at the Banff Center in Canada with Richard Beirach , Anthony Davis , Muhal Richard Abrams , Steve Coleman , Dave Holland and Tōru Takemitsu .

Hans Lüdemann on June 20, 2007 live in the Loft (Cologne)

Between 1983 and 1993 Lüdemann worked in Cologne on various projects with Roger Hanschel and Rainer Linke . Since 1985 he has worked several times with the Hessischer Rundfunk jazz ensemble . In 1986 he went on an Asian tour with Eberhard Weber , Jan Garbarek and Ralf Hübner on behalf of the Goethe Institute . Since 1988 he has also performed frequently with Heinz Sauer's duo and quartet . In 1993 he recorded a CD in a duo with Paul Bley . He was also a member of Angelika Niescier's quartet sublim .

As early as 1990 he founded the group Rism , which appeared in different sizes from trio to septet (with Marc Ducret , Hartmut Kracht , Dré Pallemaerts , Mark Feldman , Reiner Winterschladen and Hayden Chisholm ) and with which he recorded several CDs. In his Trio Rooms, which has existed since 2007 , he plays with Dejan Terzic and Sébastien Boisseau .

Two trips to Africa laid the foundation for his interest in African music, from a duo program with the Gambian musicians Tata Dindin 1999 also emerged as the same year with Aly Keïta and Steve Argüelles founded Trio Ivoire (in the meantime by Chander Sardjoe Christian Thomé has taken over the place on the drums). Since the late 1990s he has completed several solo tours with the project the natural piano .

In addition to works for jazz ensembles, Lüdemann also composed the orchestral work Geschichte 2 (1988), the vocal cycle Verloren ins weite Blau (1994) and chamber music works, including the string quartet Mweya (2001). From 1993 to 2008 he was a lecturer for jazz piano and ensemble at the Cologne University of Music ; In 2009/2010 he was a Cornell Visiting Professor at Swarthmore College, North America . Between 2000 and 2004 he was artistic director of the JazzArt festival in Bonn / Cologne / Düsseldorf / Duisburg. The CD box die kunst des trios 1-5 , published by BMC Records in 2012, received the ECHO Jazz 2013 for “editorial performance of the year”. It is a recording of five concerts from the Loft (Cologne) , which took place between March 2007 and September 2008 and document different piano trios around Lüdemann.

Discographic notes

  • Nana Schwarze Nana ( JazzHausMusik , 1985, with Roger Hanschel, Rainer Linke, Klaus Mages)
  • Blau Frontal , 1989 (JazzHausMusik, 1989, with Roger Hanschel, Rainer Linke)
  • Rism Aph-o-Rism's (JazzHausMusik, 1991, with Hartmut Kracht, Marc Lehan)
  • Rism UnitaRISM (JazzHausMusik, 1994)
  • Hans Lüdemann & Paul Bley Moving Hearts (ITM, 1994)
  • The natural piano (JazzHausMusik, 1995 - solo)
  • RISM 7 FutuRISM (JazzHausMusik, 1998)
  • Hans Lüdemann & Tata Dindin Piano meets Kora - African Dialogues (RISM, 1999)
  • Hans Lüdemann & Reiner Winterschladen Mysterious Call ( Konnex 2001)
  • Trio Ivoire ( Enja , 2002)
  • Hans Lüdemann & Tata Dindin Kano (NRW Jazz 2005)
  • Between the Keys (RISM 2009 - solo)
  • Trio Ivoire featuring Chiwoniso Across the Oceans (Enja, 2009)
  • Lüdemann - Boisseau - Terzic Rooms ( BMC Records 2010)
  • Trio Ivoire Timbuktu ( Intuition Records 2014)
  • The real piano: a Cologne concert (BMC, 2015 - solo)

literature

  • Kunzler Jazz Lexicon Reinbek b. Hamburg 2002

Web links

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SURNAME Lüdemann, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz pianist
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg