Horst Mühlbradt

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Horst Mühlbradt (born January 18, 1930 in Berlin ; † February 23, 2011 in Nuremberg ) was a German jazz musician , composer and arranger .

Life

Horst Mühlbradt received his musical training through private lessons and in 1949 at the piano at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory in Berlin. In 1950 he came to Nuremberg . Mühlbradt played there as a pianist in the "Atlanta Combo" until the 1960s. In Nuremberg he also met Peter Herbolzheimer . Since 1955 Mühlbradt initially worked as a guitarist, then as a pianist , percussionist , arranger , composer and studio musician for many radio companies, from 1955 to 1968 in particular as a guitarist in the big band of the Nuremberg Radio of the Bavarian Radio, and in theNuremberg Opera House . Since the early 1960s, the "Horst-Mühlbradt-Combo" also played occasionally on Bavarian radio.

In 1968/69 Horst Mühlbradt was hired by the director of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg , Egon Monk , where he worked with Hans Koller and Peter Herbolzheimer. He also worked for Rolf-Hans Müller (Südwestfunk-Orchester), Erwin Lehn (Südfunk-Tanzorchester), Kurt Edelhagen , Peter Herbolzheimer's Rhythm Combination & Brass and the NDR Big Band . It came to cooperation u. a. with Chet Baker , Stan Getz , Hans Koller, Frank Rosolino , Art Farmer , Ferdinand Povel , Dieter Reith and Herb Geller . Since 1977 Mühlbradt has played as a pianist in Wolfgang Schlüter's quintet Swing Revival , which won the German Record Prize . He also performed with the Acoustic Art Trio , the Günter Fuhlisch -Ladi Geisler Quintet , the Swingtett and other formations around Ladi Geisler .

Mühlbradt also composed film scores for the comedy Brennende Betten , the drama Not nothing without you and the short feature film The Attack .

In addition, Horst Mühlbradt taught for eleven years from 1985 to the end of 1996 as a music teacher for piano and arrangement at the Hamburg Conservatory . He lived and worked in Alveslohe near Hamburg for forty years . Mühlbradt died a few months after his wife after a long and serious illness in Nuremberg .

Awards

  • 1981 - Second prize at the “Seventh EBU Competition for New Music for Bands” in the “A” Category of Marches of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) for the composition “Arena”, prize money: 2,000 Swiss francs (commissioned composition for the NDR orchestra , Hanover)
  • 1983 - Third prize from the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) for the composition "Picnic for Five", prize money: 1,500 Swiss francs (commissioned composition for the SWF Orchestra, Baden-Baden. The first prize was not awarded, the second prize went to the BBC.)
  • 2004 - "Archtop-Germany CD of the year" for the CD "Filigran" by the "Acoustic Art Trio" with Horst Mühlbradt piano, Klaus Sye on guitar and Joachim Gerth double bass

Works (selection)

Discography

  • Peter Herbolzheimer Rhythm Combination & Brass: Wide Open . With Art Farmer - trumpet, Palle Mikkelborg - trumpet, Rick Kiefer - trumpet, Ack van Rooyen - trumpet, Philip Catherine - guitar, Herb Geller - sax, flute, Jiggs Whigham - trombone, Åke Persson - trombone, Peter Herbolzheimer - trombone, Rudi Fuesers - trombone, Dieter Reith - elec. piano, organ, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen - bass, Tony Inzalaco - drums, Sabu Martinez - conga, Horst Mühlbradt - percussion & piano. MPS 1973
  • Peter Herbolzheimer Rhythm Combination & Brass: “Waitaminute” . with U. a. Dieter Reith, piano, organ; Horst Mühlbradt, piano, percussion; Peter Herbolzheimer, Trombone. MPS Records, 1973
  • Carl Michael Bellman : Songs . CD. Artists: Harald Juhnke , Hans Heider, Herb Geller, Benny Bailey , Horst Mühlbradt and others, Label: Documents, AAD, 76
  • Peter Herbolzheimer Rhythm Combination & Brass & Inga Rumpf : Hip Walk , line-up: u. a. Keyboards: Dieter Reith, Horst Mühlbradt, Rob Franken; Organ: Horst Mühlbradt. Polydor Records, 1976
  • Swing Revival , with Stefan von Dobrzynski , cl, Wolfgang Schlüter, vib, Lucas Lindholm , b, Charly Antolini , dr, Horst Mühlbradt, p. Koala Records, 1985
  • Acoustic Art Trio: "Filigran" , with Horst Mühlbradt, p, Klaus Sye, g, and Joachim Gerth, b. Pagoden Records, 2004

Arrangements

  • Chet Baker: The Last Great Concert: My Favorite Songs . Vol. I & II (1 h 34 min), Enja, 2CDs, 1988
  • NDR big band: "Good Vibration" . Direction: Dieter Glawischnig , arrangements: Wolfgang Schlüter, Rob Pronk and Horst Mühlbradt. LC 8630, Extra Records 11522, 1990 and 1994

Filmography

  • 1984: The attack
  • 1985: Not nothing without you
  • 1988: Burning Beds (Comedy), 2004 also on DVD

literature

  • Acoustic Art Trio: "filigree" JazZzeit in the KulturForum in the Stadtgalerie Kiel, April 6, 2006
  • Booklet of the CD “Filigran” by the “Acoustic Art Trio” with Horst Mühlbradt, piano, Klaus Sye , guitar, and Joachim Gerth, double bass. Pagoden Records, 2004
  • Gerry Fiedler: Horst Mühlbradt celebrates “filigree” . Backstage scene
  • gip: Consortium: Jazz and Swing at its best . Hamburger Abendblatt from March 17, 2003
  • Markus Menke: Jazz & Pop at the Conservatory. “Conservatory” does not mean “conservative” - there is jazz, rocking, grooving . Hamburg Conservatory, Music School and Academy, May 30, 2008
  • Michael Laages: The Art of Gilding. Birthday soiree: Horst Mühlbradt on his 75th birthday . A radio broadcast by NDR-Info on January 17, 2005, 52:41 minutes (interview, interspersed with compositions and arrangements by Horst Mühlbradt)
  • Forty years of the Nuremberg Jazz Studio. A basement hole as a gateway to the world . Editing: Walter Schätzlein, Günther Pächter, Thomas Gerlach. Regensburg: ConBrio-Verlags-Gesellschaft, 1994, ISBN 3-930079-54-2 .
  • Jürgen Wölfer : Jazz in Germany. The encyclopedia. All musicians and record companies from 1920 until today. Hannibal, Höfen 2008, ISBN 978-3-85445-274-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The "Atlanta Combo", which played West Coast jazz in Nuremberg in the 1950s , was then "the ultimate band in Nuremberg". The musicians included u. a. the drummer Peter ("Pierre") Bauer, the bassist Alfred Bayreuther, the drummer Herbert Bischof, the alto saxophonist Hans Deinzer , the pianist Horst Mühlbradt, the trumpeter Gustav Scheurer, the bassist Hans Tuscher and the saxophonist Horst Wittauer. Cf. Thomas Gerlach: Stations of the Jazz Studio . In: Forty Years of the Nuremberg Jazz Studio
  2. ↑ of there on -Meistersingerkonservatorium studied
  3. ^ Rhythm in the Heart , accessed June 6, 2011
  4. ^ Letter of July 9, 1981 from the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) to Horst Mühlbradt
  5. ^ Letter of June 24, 1983 from Südwestfunk, Baden-Baden to Horst Mühlbradt
  6. ↑ Archtop-Germany CD of the year  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.archtop-germany.de  
  7. ↑ songs
  8. ↑ Three arrangements by the NDR big band: All Blues , Well You Needn't , Django . See Mühlbradt's Discogs discography
  9. ↑ Good vibration
  10. ^ " Burning beds ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. “As DVD, DigitalVD.de - DVD and Heimkino Magazin, December 20, 2004 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.digitalvd.de
  11. ↑ "filigree" JazZzeit
  12. ↑ Jazz and swing at its best  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.abendblatt.de  
  13. ↑ Jazz & Pop at the Conservatory ( MS Word ; 26 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Mühlbradt, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician, composer and arranger
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 2011
Place of death Nuremberg