Lisa-Rebecca Wulff

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Lisa-Rebecca Wulff (born June 25, 1990 in Hamburg ) is a German jazz musician ( electric bass , double bass , composition).

Live and act

After taking classical piano and guitar lessons, Wulff began playing the electric bass at the age of nine. Later she completed a preparatory training in the field of jazz and popular music ("Young Academy") at the youth music school in Hamburg. Until 2013 she studied music education in the field of jazz and jazz-related music with the main subjects electric and double bass with Detlev Beier at the University of the Arts Bremen ; she then continued her artistic training with Lucas Lindholm at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater .

In addition to composing and studio work, for example for Goetz Steeger or Rolf Kühn , Wulff is on the road with various of his own bands, for example with the quartet takadoon or her Lisa Wulff quartet, which has so far released two albums ( Encounters 2016, Wondrous Strange on Laika Records 2018). The album Beneath the Surface followed in 2020 .

She also played in the NDR big band . Her work as a "sidewoman" in various bands and projects brought her to many concerts in Germany and neighboring countries and the like. a. also to China. She has already appeared on stage with artists such as Rolf Kühn, Nils Landgren , Bob Mintzer , Robbie Smith, Cæcilie Norby , Terri Lyne Carrington , Rita Marcotulli , Semino Rossi , Christof Lauer , Randy Brecker and Love Newkirk. She also played in the Trio Saskya with Anna-Lena Schnabel and Clara Haberkamp , with takadoon and in the Trio S: U: M.

Prizes and awards

In 2016 she was awarded the IB.SH-Jazz-Award from JazzBaltica ; In 2019 she received the Hamburg Jazz Prize “as a stylistically extremely open and stylish bassist” who “proves to be a reliable, energetic haven of calm and at the same time an inspiring engine in a variety of band contexts (from duo to big band)”. "In her contributions as a soloist, her technique and her imagination come together in an ideal way."

Discographic notes

  • Beneath the Surface (Laika Records 2020, with Adrian Hanack, Yannis Anft or Frank Chastenier , Silvan Strauss and Miroslava Streychinska)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Goetz Steeger: Useless Witnesses (Baby Blue Pages)
  2. ↑ CD of the week (NDR)
  3. ↑ Lisa Wulff wins Hamburg Jazz Prize (Melodiva)
personal data
SURNAME Wulff, Lisa-Rebecca
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician (bass, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg