Hubert Katzenbeier

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Hubert Katzenbeier (born April 14, 1936 in Dittmannsdorf as Hubert Katzenbeißer ) is a German jazz musician (trombone, violin, composition, arrangement).

Life

Katzenbeier received private lessons on the violin and learned the trombone autodidactically. Between 1957 and 1962 he worked in the dance orchestra Fips Fleischer ; Then he moved to the Rundfunk-Tanzorchester Berlin from Günter Gollasch , where he worked as a solo trombonist and arranger until 1992. He also played in the quintet of Friedhelm Schönfeld , in the Modern Blues Sextet and in the Berlin-Leipzig Combo , repeatedly with Klaus Lenz , in the radio jazz ensemble Studio IV with Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky and Eberhard Weise , in the Theo Schumann jazz formation , with Uncle Stanislaus and his jazz grandpas , with Wolfgang Fiedler in Fusion , in Dieter Keitel's big band and with Acki Hoffmann. In 1971 he founded his own group (initially a quintet, later a tentet, currently from quartet to sextet). He was also one of the co-founders of the Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra .

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Individual evidence

  1. after Peter Wende: How one became and stayed a jazz fan in the GDR. In: R. Bratfisch (Ed.): Free tones. The GDR jazz scene. Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-86153-370-7 , p. 147ff., Here p. 148 ( limited preview in the Google book search).