Manfred Bründl

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Manfred Bründl (2007)

Manfred Bründl (born September 18, 1959 in Regensburg ) is a German double and electric bassist of modern jazz and composer .

Live and act

From 1980 Bründl studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz a combined degree in classical and jazz music. Between 1983 and 1985 he was a member of Heinz Sauer's quartet . He then worked a. a. with Albert Mangelsdorff , Norma Winstone , Terumasa Hino , Martial Solal , Herb Ellis , Charlie Mariano , Christof Lauer , Dave Liebman , Walter Norris , Craig Harris , Phil Wilson , Aldo Romano , Bill Elgart and Wayne Krantz as well as with numerous musicians from the Austrian scene like Fritz Pauer , Harry Pepl , Leo Wright or Erich Kleinschuster .

Bründl has been leading his own groups since 1987, initially “Brüma, Brüma” with Matthias Schubert , Bob Degen and Janusz Stefański . In his group “Basslab” he recorded the album “Live” (1992) with Schubert, Simon Nabatov and Barry Altschul . On behalf of the Goethe Institute he toured Africa, Asia, Canada and Latin America. He also had a trio with Tomasz Stańko and Michael Riessler . In 1995 he founded the Hessische Art Ensemble Wiesbaden , which explored the transition to new music and performed Bründl's composition cycle "Color Light Sounds". In that year he also received the Jazz Prize of the City of Frankfurt am Main . In 1999 he founded the crossover ensemble Composers Orchestra . Together with Till Brönner he recorded the music for the film My Brother the Idiot (2000).

The CD "Respect" of his current group Silent Bass was nominated for the German Record Award. In 2007 he reformed Silent Bass and has now performed with Hugo Read , Achim Kaufmann and Jonas Burgwinkel . The singer Liisi Koikson and Wolfgang Schlueter can also be heard on the band's CD "Crosshatched" (2008) . Tours to Estonia followed at the invitation of the Goethe Institute.

The CD "Crosshatched" was awarded in 2008 by Deutschlandfunk as the best German jazz album of the broadcast year 2008. 2009 to 2010 workshops, concerts, festivals etc. a. in Budapest, Tallinn, Salerno (Martucci Jazz Festival, Villa Guariglia Vietri Sul Mare).

In September 2011 the formation with Hugo Read , Rainer Böhm and Jonas Burgwinkel released the album Tip of the tongue , a homage to Peter Trunk and his time. The CD unites eleven compositions by Bründl, which pay tribute to Peter Trunk in various ways. The bassist, who died in 1973 in an accident, was one of the leading jazz musicians of the 1950s and 60s. Bründl received the SWR Jazz Prize in 2012.

Bründl was a lecturer at the University of Mainz from 1989 to 1996 . Since 1996 he has been teaching as a professor at the University of Music in Weimar .

Selection discography

  • Metal Blossoms Heinz Sauer Quartet ( L + R Records , bellaphon), 1984
  • Blue Light with Walter Norris, Matthieu Michel , Wilson de Oliveira , 1986
  • Aisha (Lippmann & Rau, bellaphon), 1991
  • Live , feat. Barry Altschul (ITM Records), 1992
  • Suite Talk with Tomasz Stanko and Michael Riessler (ITM Records), 1993
  • Colored light sounds , with Stefan Bauer, Wollie Kaiser , Ingrid Schmithüsen and Michinori Bunya ( Konnex Records ), 1998
  • Respect with Hugo Read, Achim Kaufmann and Jo Thönes ( Laika Records ), 2006
  • Crosshatched with Hugo Read, Achim Kaufmann, Jonas Burgwinkel, Wolfgang Schlüter and Liisi Koikson (Laika Records), 2008
  • Manfred Bründl's Silent Bass Tip of the tongue (Laika Records), 2011

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Web links

Individual references, comments

  1. ↑ http://www.jazz-frankfurt.de/?m=20111117
  2. ↑ SWR Jazz Prize 2012
personal data
SURNAME Bründl, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH regensburg