Martin Blume (musician)

Martin Blume 2018

Martin Blume with Speak easy in Club W71 , 2010

Martin Blume (* 1956 in Arnsberg ) is a German drummer and composer.

Career

Blume, who has lived in Bochum since 1976, has been a professional musician in the fields of jazz, improvisational music and new music since 1983 . He worked with Peter Brötzmann , Lol Coxhill , Earl Howard , Peter Kowald , Werner Lüdi , Jay Oliver , Dorothea Schürch , Melvyn Poore and Richard Teitelbaum , among others .

Since 1988 he has been realizing his own projects, with which he has performed and recorded albums in many European countries, the USA, Canada and Australia. These include duo formations with Phil Wachsmann and Xu Fengxia , a trio with Johannes Bauer and Sebi Tramontana and the groups FOURinONE (with Johannes Bauer, Luc Houtkamp and Dieter Manderscheid ), Lines (with Axel Dörner , Phil Wachsmann, Jim Denley and Marcio Mattos ), Axon (with Phil Minton , Fred Van Hove and Marcio Mattos), Caetitu (with Yedo Gibson , Veryan Weston and Marcio Mattos), Speak easy (with Phil Minton, Ute Wassermann and Thomas Lehn ) and Shift (with Frank Gratkowski , Thomas Lehn, Philipp Zoubek and Dieter Manderscheid).

In addition, Blume is involved as an organizer of concert series and festivals of contemporary improvisation music in the Ruhr area, such as the Ruhr Jazz Festival and Open Systems .

Discography (selection)

• Frisque Concordance: Spellings (with John Butcher , Georg Graewe , Hans Schneider ), 1993
• Axon: Perceptions , 1994
• Hans Peter Hiby / Johannes Bauer / Marcio Mattos / Martin Blume: Live in Bremen (Aufruhr Records, 1995)
• Lines , 1997
• FOURinONE: Steles , 2000
• Lines in Australia (with Axel Dörner, Jim Denley , Phil Wachsmann, Marcio Mattos), 2003
• Mario Schiano / Xu Fengxia / Martin Blume Dear Peter , 2003
• Zero Plus (with Aurora Josephson , Phil Wachsmann, Jacob Lindsay , Damon Smith ), 2003
• Mount Washington (with Chris Heenan , Wolfgang Fuchs , Tucker Dulin , Phil Wachsmann, Jeremy Drake , Anne LeBaron , Torsten Müller ), 2004
• Luc Houtkamp / Cor Fuhler / Martin Blume: Burnt Siena , 2004
• FOURinONE: # 40 Vienna & # 41 Bernbeuren, 2003 , 2004
• Axon: Constant Comments , 2005
• Birgit Ulher / Damon Smith / Martin Blume: Bulky Goods , 2005
• Aurora Josephson / Joëlle Léandre / Damon Smith / Martin Blume: Cruxes , 2005
• Phil Wachsmann / Martin Blume: Pacific 2002 , 2005 PACIFIC 2003 (2005)
• FOURinONE - POW Ensemble: Novembermusic 2004 (with Guy Harris , Jan Truetschler , Paul Jeukendrup ), 2005
• Caetitu , 2008
• SpeakEasy: backchats , 2009
• Vandeweyer / Van Hove / Lovens / Blume Quat Live at Hasselt ( NoBusiness Records , 2013)
• Luc Houtkamp / Simon Nabatov / Martin Blume Encounters ( Leo Records , 2014)
• Martin Blume, Wilbert De Joode, John Butcher: Low Yellow (Jazzwerkstatt, 2018)

Web links

Commons : Martin Blume  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Works by and about Martin Blume in the catalog of the German National Library
• Martin Blume's website
• Martin Blume at Discogs (English)