Jens Düppe

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Jens Düppe 2017 at Jazz im Palmengarten in Frankfurt

Jens Düppe (* 1974 in Schwäbisch Gmünd ) is a German modern jazz drummer .

Live and act

Düppe took piano lessons at an early age and began to learn drums at the age of ten. He studied at the Liszt School of Music Weimar and from 1996 at the Conservatorium voor Muziek in Amsterdam, where he completed his master's degree based on the regular course. In 2001, while studying, he received grants to work in New York City .

Düppe was a member of the Federal Jazz Orchestra in the mid-1990s . In 2003 Albert Mangelsdorff invited him to the German-French Jazz Ensemble ; he also played in his quintet with Wolfgang Dauner . He is a member of Matthias Schriefl's Shreefpunk Quartet , the Cologne Contemporary Jazz Orchestra and the bands of Oliver Leicht , Matthias Bergmann and Pascal Schumacher . He also plays with the Bulgarian pianist Dimitar Bodurov, who blends folklore from his homeland with jazz, in a trio and duo Neofobic .

He performed a. a. with Maria Schneider , Kenny Werner , Lee Konitz , Toots Thielemans , Ack van Rooyen , Charlie Mariano , Bert Joris , Scott Hamilton , Ferdinand Povel , Markus Stockhausen , Caroline Thon , the NDR Bigband and the hr-Bigband . He also recorded with Tom Gaebel , Annette Neuffer , Lars Duppler , Olaf Polziehn , Stefan Karl Schmid , Anke Helfrich and Franz Sackenheim. In recent years he has increasingly appeared as the leader of his own bands and as the organizer of the experimental concert series “Kommunikation 9”.

From 2006 to 2008, Düppe was a percussion instructor for the Federal Jazz Orchestra. He lives in Cologne. In 2019 he received the WDR Jazz Prize (improvisation).

Discographic notes

Jens Düppe 2011 in the ARTheater in Cologne, Photo: Gerhard Richter

Web links

Commons : Jens Düppe  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Jens Düppe receives the WDR Jazz Prize , on remszeitung.de, accessed on February 1, 2019
  2. Meeting of Hans-Bernd Kittlaus