Johannes Schleiermacher

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Johannes Schleiermacher (* 1984 ) is a German jazz musician ( tenor saxophone ).

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Schleiermacher comes from a musical family; his uncle is the composer Steffen Schleiermacher , his father first sang in the Stadtsingechor zu Halle and later founded an orchestra as a pharmacist. He got to know modern jazz early on through his father's record collection . Schleiermacher joined a big band in Dresden . After graduating from high school, he moved to Berlin, where he studied jazz at the "Hanns Eisler" University of Music in Berlin . Through a workshop he got to know Gunter Hampel , who immediately accepted him into his band; Since 2002 he has toured extensively with him in various constellations and recorded various albums and DVDs.

Max Andrzejewski brought him into his band Hütte , with whom he has released three albums since 2012. Max and Jan Weissenfeldt hired Schleiermacher to help out with their band Poets of Rhythm , where he came into contact with African music. Then he improvised with Gnawa musicians and Sufi orchestras in Morocco and founded his band Onom Agemo and the Disco Jumpers , which released their own album in 2015. Another project of his that deals with West African music is Woima Collective , which has also performed with Tony Allen and recorded two albums. He is also a member of the Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra and the Austrian band Shake Stew . He can be heard on the synthesizer on Planetary Tunes , Kathrin Lemke's second album Heliocentric Counterblast . Lukas Kranzelbinder brought him to the SWR New Jazz Meeting in 2018 with Fiston Mwanza Mujila and the musicians Mario Rom , Mona Matbou Riahi , Gregory Dargent and Dave Smith .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andy Dallmann: Wild boom on the wild sow . Sächsische Zeitung , August 5, 2016, accessed on September 3, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Schleiermacher, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician (tenor saxophone)
DATE OF BIRTH 1984