Kai Brückner
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Kai Brückner (* 1969 in West Berlin ) is a German jazz guitarist .
Live and act
Kai Brückner is a son of the German actor and voice actor Christian Brückner . He started playing guitar when he was eight. In his childhood years he was a voice actor . From 1979 he was the German voice of Ricky Schroder , whom he also spoke in 1980 in Der kleine Lord . In 1982 he spoke his last role. During his youth, which he spent between 1984 and 1986 in Larchmont , a small town in the New York City catchment area , he took lessons from John Abercrombie . He has been active as a musician in Berlin since 1989. From 1990 to 1994 he studied at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin with David Friedman , Sigi Busch and Jerry Granelli, among others . During a further stay in New York from 1994 to 1995 he continued his education with John Abercrombie, Mike Stern and Wayne Krantz . He has toured North America several times with Granelli and his band UFB . In 1999, a scholarship from the Berlin Senate enabled participation in the jazz workshop in Banff, Canada .
He pursues his own projects such as MicroBazaar (with Thomy Jordi and Sebastian Merck) and Yakou Tribe , with which he has also toured in Africa and India, as well as the Lone World Trio with his father. He also played with Tilmann Dehnhard , Jocelyn B. Smith , Pepe Berns , Lisa Bassenge , Maria Farantouri , Zülfü Livaneli , Andreas Schnermann and Esther Kaiser. He toured China with Thärichens Tentett , recorded a CD with Tanmoy Bose with The Taal Tantra Experience and performed in India. He also wrote film music for ZDF and Arte, and composed for audio books .
Discographic notes
- brückner beat (2001)
- Yakou Tribe Road Works (2001, with Jan von Klewitz sax, Johannes Gunkel b, Rainer Winch d)
- Yakou Tribe Red & Blue Days (2004)
- Yakou Tribe: Rituals (Traumton, 2007)
- MicroBazaar Nomad (2009)
- The Taal Tantra Experience Sixth Sense (2010)
Synchronous roles
- The Champ (1979)
- Puschel the Eichhorn (1979)
- The Little Lord (1980)
- The Cadets of Bunker Hill (1980)
- Mustang (1973; Synchro 1982)
Web links
- Web presence with discography
- Kai Brückner in the German dubbing file
- Literature by and about Kai Brückner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Interview with Brückner (2004)
Individual references / comments
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brückner, Kai |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz guitarist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | West Berlin |