Jochen Baldes

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Jochen Baldes (born October 30, 1964 in Zurich ) is a German creative jazz musician ( tenor saxophone , soprano saxophone , also clarinet , bass clarinet and flute , composition).

Life

Baldes initially worked as a painter and sculptor before completing his studies at the Swiss Jazz School in Bern with Andy Scherrer , Joe Haider and Bert Joris at the age of 24 . He worked with Ohrewürm 3 , Sandy Patton , Jean et les Peugeot , Andy Brugger's Diet Bang , the Martin Streule Jazz Orchestra, the Adrian Frey Septet , the Zurich Jazz Orchestra and the Lucerne Jazz Orchestra and many other jazz musicians and formations on the Swiss scene. His own group, Subnoder , has existed since 1997, and in 2009 he founded the jazz / lyric band Kobal with the German poet Nicolai Kobus . With the singer and electric soundscaper Johanna Jellici he founded the two bands Jellici Baldes Soundfields and Jellici Baldes Spacetracker, with which the two undertook extensive tours through Europe and also to Russia Russia and also made CD recordings.

He has toured in Russia, Cuba, South Africa, Switzerland, Austria, France, Holland, Italy and Germany and performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival and the Willisau Jazz Festival . He wrote the music for the feature film Taxigeflüstger by Giorgio Wolfensberger; He set several radio plays for Swiss radio DRS .

Discography

  • Swiss Big Band Eruption (Morsthich Music Productions, 1992)
  • Jean et les Peugeot: Gran Turismo (HEAR WEGO, 1998)
  • Jochen Baldes Quartet: Niniland (Brambus Records 1999)
  • Jochen Baldes Subnoder osmotic jazz ( yvp music 2003)
  • Adrian Frey Septet: seven songs ( Altrisuoni 2004)
  • Jochen Baldes Subnoder: The Moholo Songs (jazzthing 2006)
  • Martin Streule Orchestra: Fire ( Unit Records 2009)
  • Jochen Baldes Kobal: Ach Anna ( Double Moon Records 2009)
  • Jochen Baldes Subnoder: Here (Double Moon Records 2013, with Franz Hellmüller, Thomas Bauser, Raffaele Bossard , Michael Stulz)
  • Jellici / Baldes' Soundfields: Invisible Door (Musiques Suisses 2016, with Johanna Jellici, Francesco Diomaiuta, André Buser, Tobias Hunziker)

literature

  • Bruno Spoerri , Biographical Lexicon of Swiss Jazz CD supplement to: B. Spoerri (Hrsg.): Jazz in Switzerland. History and stories. Chronos-Verlag, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0739-6

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personal data
SURNAME Baldes, Jochen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich