Joe Kienemann
Joe Kienemann (born May 11, 1938 in Heilbronn , Germany) is a German jazz musician and journalist.
Life
The pastor's son Kienemann came to music through the house music of the baroque masters. He learned the piano at the age of six, cello at ten and trumpet at twelve. The piano became his main instrument.
During his studies, which he began at the University of Tübingen , he founded the Tübingen jazz trio in 1958 . Since 1960 Kienemann has been one of the most important musicians on the Munich scene. The pianist works mainly in a trio, which allows for the optimal situation of artistic creation. He also worked with Dusko Goykovich and Udo Jürgens and performed with Attila Zoller , Klaus Doldinger , Benny Bailey , Art Farmer and Charly Antolini .
Between 1971 and his retirement in 2003 he worked as a jazz editor at Bayerischer Rundfunk . Kienemann produced and hosted more than two hundred programs a year with great success. In autumn 2003 he handed over the artistic direction of the BR concert series Bühne frei to the music journalist and jazz musician Beate Sampson .
In 2005 Kienemann was honored with the Bavarian Jazz Prize; In 2007 he was awarded the Schwabing Art Prize . "In his more than 30 years of activity for the radio, he wrote a piece of radio history," said the reasoning.
Web links
- Web presence with discography
- Interview on Bayerischer Rundfunk
- Portrait of Joe Kienemann , jazz newspaper May 2006
- "The Good Friday Sin" or Kienemann as a music ban breaker ( memento from February 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- Joe Kienemann at Discogs (English)
Individual references, sources
- ↑ Program November 2011 , Jazzclub Unterfahrt Munich, accessed September 11, 2012
- ↑ Behind the Scenes Beate Sampson and Joe Kienemann ( memento from January 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), interview with Kienemann from October 23, 2011, accessed September 11, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kienemann, Joe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz musician and cultural journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 11, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heilbronn , Germany |