Jochen Arp

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Jochen Arp (* around 1950) is a German jazz musician ( alto , baritone and tenor saxophone , also flute, arrangement ) and big band leader who is active in the Hamburg music scene.

Arp toured Germany in the 1970s with the quintet Bob Cats (album Still Alive (1979), with Klaus Berger, Roland Bankel, Sten Linneberg and Arno Engelhard) .The album A Child Is Born was created in 1979 with the band project Arpi Schock , with Arp's arrangements of standards like " Basin Street Blues ", " Mercy, Mercy, Mercy " or Nat Adderley's " Jive Samba "; In 1983 he recorded the album Rhythm-Arp-Ensemble with his own compositions. He was also active as an author for Jazz Podium ( Stan Getz in Onkel Pö in Hamburg , 1976).

Until 1987 Arp led the big band he founded in 1986 at the University of Hamburg (today the Skyliner Jazz Big Band) . He was then musical director of the LandesJugendJazzOrchester Hamburg until he was replaced in 1997 by the pianist and arranger Nils Gessinger . His students include a. Peter Less and Dirk Klawitter .

As an arranger he worked a. a. with the NDR Dance Orchestra (conducted by Dieter Glawischnig , 1982) and the rock band Die Ärzte ( Rock 'n' Roll Realschule , 2002). Currently (2017) he leads the Criss Cross Big Band , for which he also arranges. He also plays in local jazz bands such as Hanse Swingers and accompanies the singer Gesa Riedel .

Jochen Arp has been leading the Criss Cross Bigband from Hamburg since the late 1970s. He arranged most of the pieces for this big band himself.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed May 21, 2017)
  2. ↑ Skyliner-Jazz Bigband at the University of Hamburg
  3. ^ The LandesJugendJazzOrchester Hamburg
  4. ↑ Event information in Westfälische Nachrichten
  5. ↑ Dirk Klawitter at Model Night
  6. ↑ Herb Geller at NDR 1966-1993 - Studio Recordings
  7. ↑ Website of the Criss Cross Big Band
  8. ↑ The Hanse Swingers
  9. ^ Gesa Riedel in music production Storm
personal data
SURNAME Arp, Jochen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician (saxophone, arrangement, big band leader)
DATE OF BIRTH around 1950