Johannes Fink (jazz musician)

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Johannes Fink 2016 in the Frankfurt Palmengarten

Johannes Fink (born February 28, 1964 in Erlangen ) is a German jazz bassist, cellist and composer.

Live and act

Johannes Fink comes from a family of musicians; his grandfather, Johann Fink, was an organist and choirmaster; his father, Thomas Fink is a jazz pianist.
Before he switched to double bass autodidactically at the age of 24 , he learned the instruments piano , drums and guitar from the age of 5 . At the age of 27 he studied double bass for about 10 weeks at the Musikhochschule Würzburg , where he took cello as a minor and was taught by a pupil of Pablo Casals .

When he moved to Berlin in 1996 he became a member of Aki Takase (& the good boys), Erdmann 3000 (with Daniel Erdmann , Frank Möbus , John Schröder ), Plastiline Black Sheep (with Adam Pierończyk , Maurice de Martin ), group of four Gschlössl (with Gerhard Gschlößl , Rudi Mahall , Christian Lillinger ) and played worldwide for the Goethe-Institut with his newly founded band 'Günter Adler' (with Rudi Mahall, Daniel Erdmann, Heinrich Köbberling ). After working with musicians like Lee Konitz , Alexander von Schlippenbach , Tim Berne , Kurt Rosenwinkel , Joachim Kühn , Yves Robert , Michael Wollny , Marc Ducret , Herb Robertson , Louis Sclavis and others. v. a. Played live concerts, he became a member of Rolf Kühn (with Ronny Graupe , Christian Lillinger) and Heinz Sauer / D.Erdmann (with Christophe Marguet ). In 2015 he founded the Super Royal group (with Eric Schaefer ) together with Daniel Erdmann . He then worked as a cellist with Reich through Jazz (R.Mahall, G.Gschlößl, Jan Roder , Michael Griener ) and forward-backward (G.Gschlößl, Maike Hilbig ). He had his cello converted into a 5-string with the HEADG tuning.

Discography (selection)

Johannes Fink (with Bruno Leicht) in 2007 at A-Trane
  • Günter Adler Live in Asia (Meta Records, 2003)
  • Larry Porter Trio, with Olli Steidle (Meta, 2002)
  • Erdmann 3000: Welcome to E3K (Enja, 2004)
  • Thomas Fink Trio with Heinrich Köbberling, drums (Atelier Sawano, 2003)
  • The moment , with Gerhard Gschlössl and Matthias Rosenbauer (jazzwerkstatt, 2008)
  • Ekkehard Wölk , Songs Chorals and Dances , with A. Marcelli, Drums (Nabel, 2005)
  • Aki Takase and the Good Boys, Procreation ( Enja , 2004)
  • Erdmann 3000: Live in Berlin (Quark Records, 2010)
  • La Dolce Vita, Music by Nino Rota with Claudio Puntin , Jörg Brinkmann (Jazzwerkstatt, 2010)
  • Gulf of Berlin, with Gebhard Ullmann, sax / clarinet, Gerhard Gschlössl, sousaphone / trombone, Jan Leipnitz, drums (JWS, 2014)
  • Rolf Kühn Unit, Stereo ( MPS , 2015)

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SURNAME Fink, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz bassist
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1964
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