Martin Lejeune

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Martin Lejeune (born December 23, 1964 in Bitburg ) is a German jazz guitarist (also banjo, mandolin, pedal steel guitar, lapsteel, theremin, euphonium, electric / double bass and mandolin).

Live and act

Lejeune first studied classical guitar at the Peter Cornelius Conservatory in Mainz . After early success as a jazz musician, he majored in jazz guitar in Amsterdam. In 1994 he came to Frankfurt am Main , where he has been working as a freelance guitarist, composer, arranger and teacher ever since. He has also been a lecturer in the jazz department of the Mainz University of Music since 2004.

In 2000 he performed at the German Jazz Festival with his group Martin's Horns . With Ulli Jünemann he founded the European Groove Orchestra in 2002 , to which Christof May , Georg Maus, Thomas Siffling , Ulf Kleiner , Hans Höhn and Golo Michel belong. He plays soul jazz with his Souljazz Dynamiters . Lejeune also worked on projects with Alfred Harth , John Tchicai , Phill Niblock , Corinna Danzer , Bob Degen , Emil Mangelsdorff and the hr big band . As a guitarist, he continued to work with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra , the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Giessen Philharmonic Orchestra, the Mainz State Orchestra, the Mannheim National Ballet, the Frankfurt New Philharmonic, the Frankfurt Theater and the Mainz State Theater .

Commissioned compositions in the field of applied music were created for film (Josef Aichholzer Produktion Wien, Barbara Trottnow), dance (National Ballett Mannheim, Extraordinary machine, Mousonturm Frankfurt, La_Trottier Dance Collective) and radio plays (Hessischer and Bayerischer Rundfunk), among others. Above all he composed for the stage: Wuppertaler Bühnen, Theater Freiburg, Kosmos Theater Wien, Theater Basel and the Ensemble 9 November Frankfurt.

Honourings and prices

In 2003, Lejeune was awarded the City of Frankfurt's Jazz Scholarship, which he used for study trips to Brazil. At the Plopp radio play competition , the author's production “Next Stop” (director: Ina Kleine-Wiskott), for which he was responsible, received first prize in 2003.

Discographic notes

  • Hale Peat Mo to No (with Alfred Harth , Harry Petersen , Bülent Ates, recout FIM, 1997)
  • Alfreth Harth's Flyby Nonet Cassini (with Alfreth Harth, Harry Petersen, Stefan Lottermann , Christoph Korn , Marcel Daemgen, Peter Anthony, Bülent Ates, Günter Bozem, 1998 recout FIM)
  • Danzer Lejeune Quartet Jazzmädchenreport (with Corinna Danzer, Michael Höfler , Simon Zimbardo; Konnex Records 1999)
  • Martin's Horns Everything will be fine (with Annemarie Roelofs , Thomas Siffling, Jens Hunstein, Dietmar Fuhr , Sebastian Merk ; Blue Noises 2001)
  • European Groove Orchestra EGO (with Thomas Siffling, Ulli Jünemann, Christoph May, Georg Maus, Ulf Kleiner, Jens Loh, Golo Maichel, Rodenstein Records 2003)
  • The Soul Jazz Dynamiters (with Peter Back , Jo Bartmes, Holger Nesweda, Blisstone 2009)
  • Aynur Rewend (with Aynur, Cemîl Kocgün, inter alia Blue Noises, 2010)

literature

  • The Frankfurt Sound. A city and its jazz stories , Societätsverlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004. ISBN 3-7973-0888-4

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personal data
SURNAME Lejeune, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Bitburg