Heinz Becker (trumpeter)

Heinz Becker (born May 28, 1938 in Dresden ) is a German jazz musician ( trumpet , flugelhorn , also French horn , euphonium and panpipes ).

After taking private piano and trumpet lessons , Becker started playing in dance orchestras and in the Manfred Ludwig sextet, which was important for GDR jazz . Since 1965 he worked in the Berlin Radio Orchestra and the Berlin Radio Big Band (GDR) . In 1977 he took part in the recordings in the octet by pianist and composer Hans Rempel , which were published under the title Number Six . He increasingly plays with Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky , Günter Baby Sommer , Klaus Koch and Ulrich Gumpert , with whose workshop band he is now going on tour and recording the records ( Tango for Gitti and Echos from Karolinenhof ). In 1982 he recorded his first own record Pan - Maybe Tau with Johannes Bauer , Petrowsky, Dietmar Diesner , Koch and Helmut "Joe" Sachse .

In the early 1980s he moved to the Federal Republic of Germany and settled in Wuppertal . He plays with the Globe Unity Orchestra , the London Jazz Composers Orchestra , the Anthony Braxton Creative Orchestra and the Pit Sound Orchestra . With the Wuppertal pianist and organist Bernd Köppen he recorded the LP Dance of the Altar Figures as a duo . With Louis Sclavis and John Lindberg he founds the trio Transition . Together with the actress Isabel Zeumer and the keyboardist Karl-Heinz Stegmann, he is developing a musical and literary program based on texts by Else Lasker-Schüler , which is also published on CD. With Kenny Wheeler , Paul Rutherford and other wind players, the production Pearls of Brass Play Eric Satie is created . With Lindberg and the Rova Saxophone Quartet he also takes on Ginger and Fred - Music to Fellini's film .

Tours and concerts have taken Becker to most of Europe and Asia.

Web links

• FMP publications

literature

• E. Dieter Fränzel , Jazz AGe Wuppertal (ed.): Sounds Like Whoopataal. Wuppertal in the world of jazz . Klartext, Essen 2006, ISBN 3-89861-466-2 , p. 209.