Henning Berg (trombonist)

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Henning Berg (* 1954 ) is a German jazz musician (trombonist, composer) and university professor.

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Berg initially played with Michael Villmow , Theo Kierdorf and Ira Coleman in the Welcome group and had a duo with drummer Andreas Genschel. From 1982 to 1996 he was a trombonist in the WDR Big Band Cologne . He left the band to have more time for his own projects in jazz and improvised music . He worked with Bob Brookmeyer on several duo projects. Since 1994 he has played regularly in a duo with the English pianist John Taylor in the formation "Tango & Company" (CD 1997, Berliner Jazztage 1998, Festival Bath / England 2002). In addition to his own band, the “Henning Berg Quartet” (with Hendrik Soll , Christian Ramond and Daniel Schröteler ; CD “Minnola”, 2003) he played with Frank Wunsch , in the Engstfeld / Weiss Quintet, in a duo with the organist Johannes Quack and the pianist Simon Seidl , with the Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra Alexander von Schlippenbachs and many others.

Berg developed the interactive software "TANGO", which reacts to music-making partners and automatically "improvises" musical answers. It was published worldwide by Steinberg Media Technologies and used by Henning Berg and others at concerts in Germany and abroad. A completely new version (Tango II) has been in the works since 1999.

Berg is professor of jazz trombone at the Cologne University of Music and was previously a professor at the Folkwang University of Applied Sciences in Essen . He also wrote and produced film music for WDR .

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SURNAME Berg, Henning
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz trombonist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1954