Kurt Buschmann

Kurt Buschmann

Kurt Buschmann (born September 7, 1955 in Seeon ) is a German saxophonist , clarinetist and composer . At live events, he mainly performs with tenor and soprano saxophones or plays percussion .

Live and act

Buschmann attended Heinrich-Braun secondary school in Trostberg and also received accordion and singing lessons from 1963 to 1967. In the Choralschola of the parish church of St. Andreas he was the lead singer and at the age of ten he was already a member of a vocal sextet. In 1968 the family moved to Munich; Buschmann attended the Otto Hahn Realschule, which has now been closed.

In 1971, Buschmann left home and founded his first rock band at the age of 16. After training as an industrial clerk and programmer , he decided to pursue a career as a professional musician and, from 1974, played for four years in Munich with Hans Fleischmann in a blues and folk guitar duo, including blues harp and bass.

In 1978 Buschmann moved to Hamburg. The guitarist Rainer Baumann gave him access to the professional Hamburg music scene. But although Kurt Buschmann played successfully in bands and duos, and liked to bring his Bavarian blues to the North German club scene, he never considered the guitar to be his favorite instrument.

In 1983 Buschmann began to learn saxophone and clarinet and shortly afterwards founded the rock band Per Express , in which he appeared as a lead singer with his own lyrics and as a saxophonist with his first compositions. Projects, bands and artist accompaniments etc. a. with London Boys , Inga Rumpf , Peter Behrens (drummer) followed. From 1988 he played tenor saxophone and keyboards with Ted Herold for six years . a. in the Current Schaubude , at Zwei im Second , in Peter's Music Revue .

In the spring of 1994 Kurt Buschmann produced his first solo CD: EAU in Bergstedter Church. The world music formation Kurt Buschmann & Friends , especially with the tabla master Swapan Bhattacharya from Calcutta , then played regular concerts in northern and central Germany and the Hessisch-Niedersächsische Zeitung reported: (...) Buschmann's multifaceted music fascinated the audience from the start.

A year later, together with the pianist Sven Selle, he recorded the jazz album You Don't Know What Love Is and thus became a CD tip for the Elmshorner Nachrichten: A successful debut album by two precisely aligned administrators of classical modernism in the Jazz ., And "with a saxophone that prefers to take over the human voice with standards like Summertime, My Foolish Heart (...)," commented the journal Jazz Podium .

On the subsequent CD, Look Inside , Chris v. Hauff in the specialist magazine of the DRMV : The soprano saxophonist Kurt Buschmann paints melodic sound collages, floating with his saxophone over the accompaniment - consisting of subtle percussion, piano and double bass - and eliciting a nice warm, never intrusive tone from his instrument (... ). Inspirational music that is stimulating and relaxing and at the same time also demanding, as a lot of different moods are created that have to be grasped by the higher.

From spring 2002 to 2003 Buschmann worked with the actor Wolfgang Kaven in the project Praise the Old Fashioned - Great Literature in Small Bookstores : Kaven read selected texts, Buschmann played the saxophone, Erika Werner moderated the evening. Hannelore Hoger and Ulrich Pleitgen also undertook literary and musical journeys : Kurt Buschmann accompanied their readings with sensitive saxophone sounds. From 2007 until her death in 2012 he also performed with the Hanoverian author Frauke Baldrich-Brümmer (Stories from Trulla, satirical magazine Eulenspiegel ) at her literary events.

Henry Heggen celebrated his 30th stage anniversary together with Kurt Buschmann in September 2003 . At the concert in Elmshorn - in front of over a thousand visitors - they said goodbye to the rhythm'n blues band Heggen's Heroes , where Buschmann played alongside Roy Dyke , Martin Scheffler, Bernd Ohnesorge and Detlef Bösche for over six years , and also the CD Making Love In Lola - had realized live .

In addition to his own formations such as the Kurt Buschmann Group, Sax'n DJ, The Rolling Bushmen, he was part of bands and duo formations such as More Than Four (with Mickie Stickdorn , among others ), a duo with Abi Wallenstein , The Two with Zabba Lindner and in his project The Hamburg Symphony . He continues to appear as a guest in numerous German and international groups.

In 2010 the Kurt Buschmann Group released the CD Use Your Time , three years later the CD Longing To Roam . By 2014, the series of sound carriers recorded by Buschmann comprised over 25 titles, including jazz, world music , blues and unconventional productions such as a live concert for India's 50th Independence Day in 1998 in the Protestant church of grace in Hamburg-St. Pauli . He also played concerts, a. a. in Berlin with the Russian pianist Sascha Pushkin.

Buschmann also teaches at various schools, is involved in selected music events and especially in youth work and talent development. Bushman is u. a. active member of the children's aid organization ICH - International Children Help eV .

Buschmann has lived in Hamburg-Bergedorf since summer 2015 .

Discography

Albums (selection)

• 1994: EAU , Windpferd Verlag
• 1995: You Don't Know What Love Is
• 1998: 50th Indian Independence Day , Indian Classical Music Institute
• 1999: Orage - Look Inside
• 2003: Making Love In Lola - live
• 2010: Use Your Time , Nightclub Record, Bärensong Musikverlag
• 2013: Longing To Roam , Nightclub Record, Bärensong Musikverlag
• 2013: Coffee For Angels , Nightclub Record, Bärensong Musikverlag
• 2014: The Blues Is Gone , Nightclub Record, Bärensong Musikverlag
• 2015: Ooh Oh Lalla (single), Nightclub Record, Bärensong Musikverlag

Awards

• 1985; "NDR-Hörfest", winner with the group Per Express

literature

• 2008: "Stillos VerdICHT", volume of poetry (self-published)
• 2015: "Endzeitlose", poetry (self-published)

Web links

• Kurt Buschmann and Sasha Pushkin, Jazz Fusion Unlimited Music, Hamburger Wochenblatt
• You just have to like him, Bergedorfer Zeitung, August 12, 2015
• Improvisation in the church, Stormarner Tageblatt, March 26, 2009
• Kurt Buschmann website
• Kurt Buschmann at Discogs (English)

Footnotes

1. ^ Dissolution of the Otto Hahn Realschule. (PDF) Retrieved August 28, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Water as a clay painting. (PDF) Retrieved August 19, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Culture Train. (PDF) Retrieved August 19, 2015 . 
4. ↑ Building bridges between cultures. (PDF) Retrieved August 19, 2015 . 
5. ↑ Music of Longing. (PDF) Retrieved August 19, 2015 . 
6. ^ Concert in the Friedenskirche. (PDF) Retrieved August 19, 2015 . 
7. ↑ Straightforward and clearly thought out. (PDF) Retrieved August 19, 2015 . 
8. ↑ You Don't Know what Love Is, Jazz Podium. (PDF) Retrieved August 19, 2015 . 
9. ↑ Look Inside, musician. (PDF) Retrieved August 19, 2015 . 
10. ↑ Asphalt Hütte becomes Ansgar Hüttenmüller, Holsteinscher Courier. (PDF) Retrieved August 22, 2015 . 
11. ^ ICH - International Children Help eV, press. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 25, 2015 ; accessed on August 22, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.