Matthias Bröde

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Matthias Bröde (* in Karlsruhe ) is a German jazz musician whose instruments are the harmonica and piano. According to the WDR , it is thanks to him in Germany that the harmonica was able to leave its shadowy existence in jazz and throw off its "folk" ballast in order to come into the public eye. "

Live and act

From 1980 to 1983 Bröde studied classical piano at the Karlsruhe University of Music with Gunter Hauer , then jazz at the Cologne University of Music with Jiggs Whigham and Francis Coppieters . He also performed with jazz musicians such as Rachel Gould , Klaus Weiss and Frédéric Rabold . He then worked as a pianist, composer and musical director at Kom (m) ödchen in Düsseldorf and taught jazz piano at the University of Duisburg . Concerts and recordings with Axel Fischbacher , Wolfgang Engstfeld and the Modern String Quartet followed ; In addition, Bröde was a member of the band of singer Norbert Gottschalk and the Brazilian singer Rosani Reis for a long time .

At the end of the 1980s he founded the Jazzharmonika group with Tom Lorenz , Hartmut Kracht and Kurt Billker , and in 1995 the quintet European Faces with Wolfgang Engstfeld, Christoph Eidens , Volker Heinze and Felix Astor . He took part in various CD recordings as a harmonica soloist (e.g. with Othella Dallas ) and performed with the SDR Big Band and Bill Ramsey .

In 2000 Bröde founded the Matthias Broede Chamber Trio with Ralph Beerkircher and Volker Heinze, with whom he went on concert tours through Germany, the Netherlands and Ireland. In Belgium he performed with the Michel Herr Trio and Roger van Haverbeke's New Look Trio . As other groups of his own, he founded the Matthias Bröde Group (with Paul Heller , Volker Heinze and Roland Höppner ) and the band Big 4 Swing (with Joachim Schoenecker , Peter Weiss and Volker Heinze).

In 2013 Bröde received the WDR Jazz Prize in the improvisation category : “Regardless of whether he is out and about on a swinging, modern-jazzy terrain or he is open to the neo-musical avant-garde, his goal is to give the harmonica a place in the compositional as well as instrumental terms to give improvised music that does justice to its peculiar timbre and tonal limitations. "

Discographic notes

  • European Faces feat. Wolfgang Engstfeld , 1999
  • Matthias Bröde Chamber Trio: From East to West: Strange Beauty of the World , 2003
  • Matthias Bröde Group , 2006
  • Matthias Bröde's Speak Tres: Space Between Intervals , 2012
  • Bröde-Vier: Instinct to Play , 2013
  • Matthias Bröde's Oh! KesterOsloer3: Where Is Wedding? , 2017 (with Kalle Kalima , John Schröder )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Statement of the jury, WDR Jazz Prize 2013 ( Memento from February 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive )

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personal data
SURNAME Bröde, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe