Kai Kanthak
Kai Kanthak (* 1955 ) is a German jazz bassist .
Live and act
Kanthak first took guitar lessons before switching to bass. He studied music in Essen, Düsseldorf and Cologne. In 1975 he and Mash Temme belonged to Helge Schneider's jazz trio , with whom he also recorded his first album. From 1977 he played in Theo Jörgensmann's trio , which was then expanded to a quartet and performed at the German Jazz Festival. At the New Jazz Meeting Baden-Baden in 1979 he was part of the Clarinet Summit with Jörgensmann, Perry Robinson , Gianluigi Trovesi , John Carter , Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky and Günter “Baby” Sommer . Then he was a member of Georg Gräwes pit sound orchestra , and then worked with musicians from the Cologne scene in the Draft quartet and with Klaus König . He also played with musicians such as Gunter Hampel , John Tchicai , Petras Vyšniauskas , Andreas Willers and Tomas Kutavičius . From 1995 to 2009 he temporarily stopped his musical activities and concentrated on photography and PC-based image creation. He currently plays in the CONTACT 4tett with Theo Jörgensmann, Evert Brettschneider and Bernd Oezsevim .
Discographic notes
- Theo Jörgensmann Quartet Song of BoWaGe (with Uli P. Lask , Dionys Kube)
- Michael Sell double quintet Emanations (with Theo Jörgensmann, Bernd Konrad , John Fischer , Melvyn Poore , Buschi Niebergall , Dionys Kube, Frank Köllges )
- GrubenklangOrchester Hanns Eisler - Come into the open, friend!
- Draft Traveling Birds ( JazzHausMusik , with Frank Gratkowski , Reiner Winterschladen , Klaus Kugel )
- Contact 4tett Loud Enough to Rock the Kraut , ( Konnex Records 2015)
- Contact 4tett Full House 2019
Web links
- Web presence
- Kai Kanthak at Allmusic (English)
- Kai Kanthak at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Kanthak, Kai |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz musician and photographer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1955 |