Herbert Joos

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Herbert Joos (born March 21, 1940 in Karlsruhe ; † December 7, 2019 in Baden-Baden ) was a German jazz trumpeter or flugelhornist and graphic artist . With his finely pasteled sound patterns, the musician belonged to the top group of European jazz composers after Martin Kunzler .

Live and act

Herbert Joos with a flugelhorn , photo by Frank Schindelbeck (2014)

Joos, the self-taught and then with a private tutor trumpet had learned, studied from 1958 bass before it also the flugelhorn , the baritone horn , the Mellophon and the alphorn zuwendete.

Since the mid-1960s Joos belonged to the Modern Jazz Quintet Karlsruhe , from which the group Fourmenonly (with Wilfried Eichhorn and Rudolf Theilmann ) emerged. He was then a member of various modern and free jazz formations (with Bernd Konrad , Hans Koller and Adelhard Roidinger and Jürgen Wuchner, among others ). He played at festivals and the Free Jazz Meeting Baden-Baden at a flugelhorn workshop with Kenny Wheeler , Ian Carr , Harry Beckett and Ack van Rooyen and drew attention to himself with his solo record The Philosophy of the Flugelhorn (1973). He also directed his own wind trio, quartet and orchestra. He received most of the recognition during the 1980s as a member of the Vienna Art Orchestra . Since the 1990s he has performed in particular with the SüdPool project, but also in a duo with Frank Kuruc and in groups led by Patrick Bebelaar or around Michel Godard , Wolfgang Puschnig , Clemens Salesny and Peter Schindler .

Joos played a full and warm trumpet tone, which he entrusted with audible breath (based on the voice of a blues singer). The resulting warm, powerful sound and the romantic-impressionistic influence, combined with an affinity for free improvisation, were his special characteristics in the European jazz landscape.

As a graphic artist, Joos often worked on the basis of harshly contrasted photographs. His portraits of musicians (e.g. by Miles Davis ), which were often printed on the cover of Jazz Podium magazine, became known to a wider audience . He also worked as a book illustrator (among others for the author Gertrud Fussenegger ).

Joos died at the age of 79 in December 2019 after an operation in Baden-Baden.

Prizes and awards

In 1984 Joos received the Südwestfunk Jazz Prize ; In 2017 he was awarded the honorary prize of the Baden-Württemberg Jazz Prize for his life's work.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung of December 7, 2019: Jazz Prize Winner Herbert Joos: The man of the magical trumpet tone is dead, by Thomas Staiber , accessed on December 7, 2019
  2. ↑ a b Jazz Honorary Prize goes to Herbert Joos. Retrieved October 6, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b Wild birds and soft to the touch Stuttgarter Nachrichten January 4, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Joos, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH 7th December 2019
Place of death Baden-Baden