Lukas Lindenmaier

Heinrich Lukas Lindenmaier (born March 5, 1946 in Basel ; † February 27, 2014 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a Swiss drummer of jazz and new improvisation music . He used self-constructed percussion instruments such as his “lifting cap” or a double bass marimba.

Live and act

Lindenmaier was initially self-taught as a drummer, but completed workshops with Jörn Schipper , Doug Hammond and Max Roach . Since 1983 he has worked with the “Workshop Orchestra” of John Tchicai , with Muneer Abdul Fataah and above all with Harald Kimmig and Uwe Martin and Georg Wolf as “Kxutrio”, who also performed with guests such as Maggie Nicols and Irène Schweizer . In 1986 he received a scholarship from the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation . In 1987 he founded the F-Orkestra with Kimmig , which also worked as guest soloists with Buddy Collette and Peter Kowald . From 1988 he appeared in formations around Cecil Taylor in Berlin and at documenta IX . Lindenmaier was a founding member of the “Freiburg Forum for Improvised Music”, composed and played stage music for the Freiburg theater . In 1994 he appeared with Tomasz Stańkos Rhythm Brass Four and with Hartmut Geerken , on March 21, 2000 on the Südwestrundfunk Freiburg “Von Röhren und Lamellen. A mycological-literary-musical excursion. Live-Electronics & Performance "(radio concert) with Hartmut Geerken, Christine Engel and Frank Rühl ( Die Pilzfreunde ), 2001 with the flautist Nils Gerold at the" Festival Improvisations "in Bremen. In 2006 he played with his Sunday Afternoon Jazz Society at the summit du Jazz . From 2007 he played drums with the Freiburg jazz group La Mouche Qui Pète .

Discographic notes

• Kxutrio: Riff-ifi ( Sound aspects , 1988), with Harald Kimmig, Uwe Martin
• Cecil Taylor Legba Crossing (FMP 1988)
• Stauss / Chaine / Lindenmaier: Open (XOPF 1993)
• The Pilzfreunde Excursion (hybridmusic cd16,1998) with Christine Engel, Frank Rühl
• The F-Orkestra Compositions (Nur / Not / Nur 2004, with Bruno Waltersbacher, Frank Goos, Harald Kimmig, Hartmut Nold, Hennes Volmer, Johannes Frisch , Karin Stock, Klaus-Peter Hirt, Marc Stutz-Boukouya , Marko Hefele, Reinhart Hammerschmidt , Max Zentawer , Roland Bongards, Sabine Meehan, Thomas Schoch, Carl Ludwig Hübsch )

literature

• Martin Kunzler : Jazz Lexicon. Volume 1: A – L (= rororo-Sachbuch. Vol. 16512). 2nd Edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-499-16512-0 .

Web links

• The man who never sleeps the Charles Mingus discography, 1945-1978 , compiled and edited by H. Lukas Lindenmaier and Horst J. Salewski.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lukas Lindenmaier is dead: Jack of all trades in the cultural scene , accessed on February 27, 2014
2. ↑ Free Music Production Label CD 0