Jürgen Scheele
Jürgen Scheele (* 1946 ) is a German jazz musician ( trumpet , flugelhorn , composition ) who has also emerged as a big band leader.
Live and act
Scheele was deeply influenced by a concert by Charles Mingus in 1964 . He studied music in Wuppertal, Graz and Boston and has worked in the Berlin studio scene and in various Berlin bands since the early 1970s. He moved to Barcelona in the 1980s, where he played with Lew Tabackin , Robin Eubanks , Harold Land , Tete Montoliu and The Manhattan Transfer . In the early 1990s several albums were made with the Big Ensemble Taller de Músics and soloists such as Agustí Fernández and Pau Riba . After his return from Catalonia, Scheele performed a Mingus program with the RIAS Big Band with his own arrangements. Then he founded the Independent Jazz Orchestra and, with Rolf Römer and Ernst Bier, the Independent Jazz Quartet , which interpreted his compositions and received very good reviews.
Discographic notes
- Independent Jazz Quartet Aigües Blances (uniSono Records 2012)
- Independent Jazzwerkstatt Orchestra Plays Mingus (jazzwerkstatt 2014, rec. 2009)
Web links
- Jürgen Scheele at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Th. Fitterling: Liner Notes for Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus (Jazzwerkstatt)
- ↑ Aigües Blances
- ↑ Independent Jazz Quartet (Muse sheets)
- ↑ meeting (jazz newspaper)
- ↑ Hans Hielscher New Big Band Sounds This sheet metal makes you happy Der Spiegel , June 25, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scheele, Jürgen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz musician (trumpet, flugelhorn, composition) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1946 |