Hr jazz ensemble
| hr jazz ensemble | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | jazz |
| founding | 1958 |
| Website | Web presence |
| Founding members | |
| Albert Mangelsdorff (until 2005) | |
| Joki Freund (until 2012) | |
| Emil Mangelsdorff (until 2012?) | |
Trumpet |
Conny Jackel (1958, 1964 to 1969) |
Trumpet |
Freddy Christmann (1958) |
piano |
Pepsi Auer (until 1960) |
double bass |
Peter Trunk (until 1960) |
Drums |
Rudi Sehring (until 1959) |
| Current occupation | |
Tenor saxophone, synthesizer |
Heinz Sauer (since 1961) |
Tenor and soprano saxophone
|
Christof Lauer (since 1979) |
Tenor and soprano saxophone, electronics |
Peter Back (since 1999) |
Trumpet |
Valentín Garvie (since 2010) |
trombone |
Stefan Lottermann (since 2006) |
tuba |
Ole Heiland (since 2017) |
piano |
Tom Schlüter (since 2000) |
guitar |
John Schröder (since 2016) |
double bass |
Günter Lenz (since 1961) |
Drums |
Uli Schiffelholz (since 2010) |
| former members | |
Trumpet |
Dusko Goykovich (1958 to 1959) |
Trumpet |
Stu Hamer (1959) |
Drums |
Hartwig Bartz (1960) |
Drums |
Rune Carlsson (1961) |
Alto saxophone, baritone saxophone
|
Günter Kronberg (1961 to 1977) |
piano |
Bob Degen (1973 to 1999) |
Drums |
Ralf Hübner (1961 to 2010) |
The hr-Jazzensemble is a freely associated ensemble of jazz musicians who record jazz pieces for the Hessischer Rundfunk every month . It is the oldest continuously existing combo of modern jazz in Germany.
history
At the 6th German Jazz Festival in Frankfurt in 1958, Eberhard Beckmann , the then director of the Hessischer Rundfunk, declared the German All-Stars around Albert Mangelsdorff to be the Hessischer Rundfunk jazz ensemble , which would henceforth work under the new name for the Radio Frankfurt program. The idea for such a continuously working studio ensemble came from Horst Lippmann , a freelancer for the Frankfurt broadcaster.
The ensemble initially invited prominent guests, especially from the United States, to its recording dates . In the meantime it is called the hr-jazz ensemble and is lucky to have survived the waves of savings and rationalization of the station, even if the production budget is no longer enough to invite guests. It initially released almost no record productions.
Not only American musicians such as Sonny Rollins , Stan Getz , Tony Scott , Jimmy Giuffre , Don Menza , Joe Henderson , Attila Zoller , Dave Pike , Lee Konitz , Harvey Wainapel , John Lindberg , Bill Frisell , Peter Ponzol or Eric Watson performed with the ensemble on, but also European musicians such as Inge Brandenburg , Werner Rehm , Fritz Hartschuh , Tomasz Stańko , Joachim Kühn , Milcho Leviev , Theo Jörgensmann , Theodosii Spassov , Eberhard Weber , Christopher Dell , Rainer Brüninghaus , Markus Becker , Hans Lüdemann , Sebastian Sternal or Bastian Weinig . The ensemble also performed jazz and lyric productions with Wilhelm E. Liefland .
Initially, the ensemble mostly played arrangements by Joki Freund , but since the late 1960s, original compositions have increasingly been heard. In addition to Freund, the composers were Heinz Sauer , Ralf Hübner and Günter Lenz . As early as the 1970s, experiments were carried out with computer sounds and soon with samples .
For the next few decades the jazz ensemble consisted of well-known musicians from the German jazz scene. It was and is only rarely heard and seen live, for example in 1972 in a concert with the Ensemble New Phonic Art ( Vinko Globokar , Michel Portal , Carlos Roqué Alsina , Jean-Pierre Drouet ) or alone, occasionally at the German Jazz Festival (most recently in 2017 ). His actual workplace is the radio studio. Albert Mangelsdorff was the director of the ensemble until his death. The ensemble could also be seen live at the winners' concert for Valentín Garvie, who received the Hessian Jazz Prize in 2015, recorded for radio.
Record productions
Two early productions appeared on record in the 1960s, but are often not attributed to the ensemble but to its director. Atmospheric Conditions Permitting , a retrospective published on ECM that contained work by the hr-Jazzensemble from 1967 to 1993 and was released as a double album in 1995, received the annual award of the German Record Critics . In the late summer of 2005, another album, “Perpetual Questions”, was released which documents the ensemble's subsequent work and was awarded the quarterly prize of the jury of the German Record Critics' Prize. Another album was released in November 2008, reflecting the current work. After 55 years in the archive, the 20 tracks that the formation with guest Inge Brandenburg recorded in four sessions were published in 2015.
Awards
In 1996 the ensemble received the annual prize of the German Record Critics' Prize for the album Atmospheric Conditions Permitting . The Frankfurt Radio Jazz Ensemble in 2009 received the 10,000 Euro Jazz Award of the State of Hesse . The award was intended to honor the ensemble's services to the development of jazz.
Discography
- Albert Mangelsdorff and the Hessischer Rundfunk jazz ensemble: The Opa Hirchleitner Story ; Brunswick EPB10815 / Bear Family (1958)
- Colin Wilkie , Shirley Hart, Albert Mangelsdorff, Joki Freund and the jazz ensemble of the Hessischer Rundfunk Wild Goose ( MPS 1969; republished as part of A. Mangelsdorff Originals Vol. 1 )
- Jazz ensemble of the Hessischer Rundfunk Atmospheric Conditions Permitting (ECM, 1967–1993)
- HR jazz ensemble Perpetual Questions (HR music, 1996-2004)
- hr jazz ensemble inconspicuous announcement (JazzWerkstatt 2005–2008)
- Inge Brandenburg with the Frankfurt Radio Jazz Ensemble Easy Street (Bear Family Records 2015, recorded from 1959 to 1961)
literature
- Jürgen Schwab : The Frankfurt sound. A city and its jazz history (s) . Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 2005.
swell
- ↑ Regular recordings at the Hessischer Rundfunk should offer the musicians enough secure income to be able to stay in the city as a freelancer and not have to accept a permanent position in a big band outside of Germany. Initially, three studio days per month were firmly agreed. Even if the fee for this (just 450 marks) was only "about enough for the rent", the employment as a freelancer at the radio gave the musicians a "resting place" and sufficient security to be able to devote themselves to their art. - Jürgen Schwab: The Frankfurt sound. A city and its jazz history (s) . Frankfurt a. M. 2005, p. 144ff.
- ↑ Guests at the hr jazz ensemble (HR2)
- ↑ hr jazz ensemble 48th German Jazz Festival Frankfurt 2017
- ↑ http://programm.ard.de/Radio/Radiofestival-2016/Jazz/Startseite?sendung=2847717758291138 ( Memento from January 22, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Jürgen Schwab Easy Street (Booklet) ( Memento from October 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Winner 1996 "Prize of the German Record Critics" at a glance