Jakob Hegner (musician)

Jakob Hegner (* around 1996 in Berlin ) is a German fusion musician ( drums , percussion , also production).

Live and act

Hegner, who played drums as a child, comes from a family of musicians; his parents were active in the folk genre , he himself initially in rock music and metal ; Since 2016 he has been studying jazz at the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music in Dresden .

In 2018, Hegner released Still in the Woods on the Neuklang label, the album Rootless Tree . With the group Leléka , the album Tuman (2019) was created after the EP of the same name (2017 ); the ethno jazz quartet around the singer Viktoria Leléka won the Creole - Global Music Contest in 2017 and the "European Young Jazz Prize" at the Burghausen International Jazz Week in 2018 ; at the Young Munich Jazz Prize 2019 it came in second place. He is also part of the collaborative quintet Lut , with whom he released the album Diving in 2019 , which combines neo-soul , hip-hop and jazz.

Hegner also drums for the singers Tatiana Nova and Feven Yoseph; He also worked with the Katiju group and artists such as Conkarah , Stimulis, Celine Rudolph , Olicia and Nouk.

Web links

• Web presence
• interview

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} portrait (Cube-Drums)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Katiju: Music across the continents
3. ↑ meeting (kultur-port.de)
4. ↑ Leleka
5. ↑ 3 from 34: 7th Young Munich Jazz Prize 2019 with a grandiose concert finale (Jazzzeitung)
6. ↑ Event announcement (Tonne, Dresden)