Julian Bossert

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Julian Bossert (2018 in the Subway )

Julian Bossert (* 1988 in Pforzheim ) is a German jazz musician ( alto saxophone ).

Live and act

Bossert learned the alto saxophone at the age of ten. In the following years he played in the Karlsruhe Youth Jazz Orchestra and the Mannheim Jazz Orchestra. From 2007 he was a member of the Baden-Württemberg Youth Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Bernd Konrad . His meeting with the saxophonist Klaus Graf in 2006 was decisive for his musical development . From 2008 Bossert studied jazz saxophone at the Nuremberg University of Music with Steffen Schorn , Hubert Winter and Klaus Graf, which he graduated with a diploma in 2013. In 2010/2011 he was a member of the Bundesjazzorchester , with which he recorded the album Originals under the direction of Marko Lackner and performed at the 2011 Jazz Festival in Viersen under the direction of Maria Baptist . Since the 2010s he has played in the Rebecca Trescher Fluxtet, in the Thilo Wolf Quartet and in the formation Jilman Zilman (with Tilman Herpichböhm , Johannes Ludwig and Peter Christof ). He is also a member of the Thilo Wolf Big Band . Bossert also led the Quartet Mount Meru , with Johannes Billich (piano), Alex Bayer (electric and double bass) and Tilman Herpichböhm (drums); he has been improvising with Billich since 2010 in the duo Bossert & Billich . He currently plays in a trio with Henning Gailing and Dominik Raab ( Dead Beat, Bad Deed ).

Over twenty published CDs document his work with a wide variety of ensembles. In 2014 he released his debut as a band leader with his Julian Bossert Quartet "Mount Meru" (Label11). Julian Bossert lives in Cologne and has also performed with Simon Nabatov , Omniversal Earkestra, Johannes Billich, Sunday Night Orchestra , Steffen Schorn, Matthias Schriefl and the Zurich Jazz Orchestra . He currently plays in a trio with Henning Gailing and Dominik Raab ( Dead Beat, Bad Deed ). He is also a member of the hip-hop / RnB brass band MOZAH.

Prizes and awards

Bossert received the Hansjörg Hensler Jazz Prize in 2014, 2nd place in the Burghausen European Jazz Young Talent Prize in 2013 and 1st prize in the Bruno Rother Competition in 2011.

Discographic notes

  • Johannes Billich | Julian Bossert: In Sight (Whiterock Records, 2012)
  • Rebecca Trescher Fluxtet: Nucleus ( Double Moon Records , 2014)
  • Julian Bossert Quartet: Mount Meru (Label 11, 2014)
  • Jilman Zilman: The Second and Last Album (In Good Hands, 2014)
  • Volker Heuken Sextet: Portugal (Label 11, 2016), with Antonia Hausmann , Lukas Grossmann , Alex Bayer , Jan F. Brill
  • Jilman Zilman, Simon Nabatov : The Loft Recordings ( GLM Music , 2018), with Johannes Ludwig, Peter Christof, Tilman Herpichböhm
  • Julian Bossert Trio: Dead Beat, Bad Deed (FLOATmusic, 2019), with Henning Gailing and Dominik Raab

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Concert announcement (Loft Cologne)
  2. ↑ Recordings (henninggailing.de)
  3. ↑ Recordings (soundcloud.com)
  4. ↑ The cheerful third album Jazzthetik
  5. ^ Julian Bossert Trio - Dead Beat, Bad Deed. In: FLOAT MUSIC. Retrieved June 15, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Bossert, Julian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Pforzheim