Josef Traindl

Josef Traindl (born April 13, 1947 in Vienna ; † September 2, 2008 there ) was an Austrian jazz and improvisation musician ( trombone ).

Live and act

Traindl received guitar lessons in his youth before he discovered the trombone. Since 1961 he was interested in jazz and began to play in amateur bands. After graduating from high school, he studied trombone for two years at the Prayner Conservatory before moving to Paris in 1967, where he continued his instrumental studies at the Ecole national supérieur de musique et de danse until 1972. He also studied musicology at the Sorbonne from 1969 to 1971 .

From 1971, Traindl was active in the French free jazz scene. Since that year he has been a member of the Machi Oul Big Band of the Chilean pianist Manuel Villarroel , with whom he also appeared at the Balver Cave Festival in 1976 . From 1973 he played in Alan Silva's Celestrial Communication Orchestra , with Bernard Lubat , Didier Levallet , Jef Gilson and in the Armonicord quartet around the saxophonist Jouk Minor . In 1974 he toured with Byard Lancaster's band . In 1976 he also founded a quartet with Daunik Lazro , Jean-Jacques Avenel and Jonathan Dickinson. He also performed in Krems in 1978 with Fritz Novotny's Reform Art Unit . In 1982 he founded the Tatitu Tatatu quintet , in which he appeared with Franz Koglmann , Walter Malli , Jean-Louis Méchali and Gus Németh.

In 1990 he returned to Vienna after the death of his father, where he initially played with Burkhard Stangl , Oskar Aichinger and Werner Dafeldecker . In 2001 Traindl realized the multimedia project Das Wesen - L'être together with Phalène as well as Catherine Rollier and Markus Pillhofer in the Semperdepot . He can also be heard on albums by Gilles Méchin, Pierre Barouh , Cristine Combe and Byard Lancaster.

Discographic notes

Machi Oul Big Band: Quetzalcoatl (Palm Records 1976)
Franz Koglmann / Bill Dixon : Opium / For Franz (Pipe Records 1977, with Steve Lacy , Cesarius Alvim , Aldo Romano , rec. 1975, as well as line-ups without Traindl and the aforementioned contributors)
Armonicord: Esprits del Sel (Electrobande 1977, with Jean Querlier, Jouk Minor, Odile Bailleux , Christian Lété )

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Andreas Felber The Viennese Free-Jazz-Avantgarde Revolution in the back room Vienna 2005, p. 193
↑ Daunik Lazro (organic)
↑ Reissue 2019 at Black Monk . See review (AllAboutJazz) . Initially partially re-published under the title: Bill Dixon / Franz Koglmann / Steve Lacy Opium ( Between the lines 2001)

personal data
SURNAME	Traindl, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Traindl, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian jazz and improvisation musician (trombone)
DATE OF BIRTH	April 13, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	September 2, 2008
Place of death	Vienna

[AF-1] Andreas Felber The Viennese Free-Jazz-Avantgarde Revolution in the back room Vienna 2005, p. 193

[2] Daunik Lazro (organic)

[3] Reissue 2019 at Black Monk . See review (AllAboutJazz) . Initially partially re-published under the title: Bill Dixon / Franz Koglmann / Steve Lacy Opium ( Between the lines 2001)