Matthias Bublath

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Matthias Bublath (born March 14, 1978 in Munich ) is a German jazz musician ( piano , keyboard , organ , composition ).

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Bublath grew up in Munich and played the piano as a young boy. He discovered the blues through records from his parents (his father is the science journalist Joachim Bublath ) . As a student he played in the sextet The G-Train . He came to jazz through jam sessions and was active as a keyboardist in Gregor Bürger's funk fusion band Earforce and in the African bands of Biboul Darouiche and Mfaniseni Thusi. After graduating from high school, he studied instrumental and vocal pedagogy at the Bruckner Conservatory in Linz from 1998 to 2000 . Between 2000 and 2002 he studied jazz composition at Berklee College of Music and won the Charles Mingus Award , before completing his master's degree at the Manhattan School of Music in 2004 .

Bublath has performed at various festivals around the world such as the Montreux Jazz Festival . With Eric Wainaina he received one of the South African Kora Awards in 2003 . He lived as a freelance musician in New York City for seven years before returning to Europe in 2010. He worked with Mike Clark , Lenny Pickett , Cándido Camero , Bobby Sanabria , Zach Danziger, Tim Lefebvre , Lionel Loueke , Klaus Doldinger , Takuya Kuroda , Tim Collins and Anne Drumond. With his father he performed the multi-media show Jazz Goes Universe . He also toured Japan.

Bublath has so far released 14 albums under his own name, most recently his big band album Eight Cylinder Bigband with Enja in 2020 . He can also be heard on albums by Biboul Darouiche, Alper Yılmaz, Jenny Evans , Claudia Koreck and Max Merseny.

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  1. ↑ Return to the source of energy: Matthias Bublaths Bigband-Sound (BR)
personal data
SURNAME Bublath, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician (piano, keyboard, organ, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich