Max Nagl

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Max Nagl (born October 5, 1960 in Gmunden ) is an Austrian jazz saxophonist, band leader and composer.

Live and act

Max Nagl took piano and clarinet lessons in his youth and attended the Linz Music High School . He then studied piano at the Bruckner Conservatory in Linz and saxophone at the Vienna Conservatory and musical movement education at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna .

Since 1980 Nagl has led various jazz formations such as the Trio Flamingo (with Otto Lechner and Brad Jones ), the Big Four (with Steve Bernstein , Noël Akchoté and Brad Jones), the group Wumm! Zack! (with Clemens Salesny , Alex Meissl and Herbert Pirker ), a trio with Clemens Wenger and Herbert Pirker, the Max Nagl Quintet (with Joanna Lewis , Josef Novotny , Achim Tang and Patrice Héral ), the Max Nagl Quartet (with Joanna Lewis, Josef Novotny and Patrice Héral), the Max Nagl Trio (with Vincent Wizlsperger and Paul Skrepek ), the Max Nagl Duo (with Otto Lechner) and the The Max Nagl Ensemble (with Clemens Salesny, Franz Hautzinger , Lorenz Raab , Martin Ptak , Clemens Wenger , Josef Novotny, Achim Tang, Lukas Knöfler and Luis Ribeiro ). He has performed on tours and concerts in Europe, USA, Australia, North Africa and Taiwan.

Since 1995 he has received composition commissions for chamber music, drama, radio plays and dance theater. In 2002 the children's opera Felix, or the story of someone who set out to learn how to scare, premiered at the Vienna Volksoper ; In 2005 the world premiere of the operetta Der Siebte Himmel in Vierteln (based on a libretto by Franzobel ) took place in the Museumsquartier Vienna .

In the field of dance Nagl worked mainly with Christine Gaigg and her group 2nd Nature, but also with Yoshiko Chuma , Donald Fleming , Dan Froot and David Zambrano in New York and with Bert Gstettner .

Recognitions

Discographic notes

  • Manhattan Love Suicide: La belle est la black (with Willi Freigner , Jonny Griebler , MLS Records 1988
  • AMen # (with Josef Novotny), Extraplatte 1989
  • Manhattan Love Suicide: Outrageous , 1989
  • Manhattan Love Suicide: enormous nitemare , 1991
  • Go 4 it: Go Fred Go (with Andreas Tieber , Konrad Schrenk , Christian Mühlbacher ), 1991
  • WUMM! ZACK! MAX NAGL (with Dan Froot , Patrice Héral), Extraplatte 1993
  • Bear Opera , Rude Noises 1994
  • Ohlsdorf 18 , solo album, 1995
  • Daily Bullet (with Jonathan Bepler , Josef Novotny, Burkhard Stangl , Wolfgang Reisinger , Patrice Héral), 1996
  • Super 8 , solo album, Rude Noises 1997
  • Mélange à trois (Max Nagl Quartet), 1997
  • Max Nagl & Friends / The Seinehonsingers Blattl-Lieder (with Josef Novotny, Achim Tang, Patrice Heral), 1998
  • Music for a church room (with Josef Novotny, Lydia Vierlinger ), 1998
  • Taboo (Max Nagl Quintet), 1999
  • Max Nagl & Christopher Doyle : Boxing Lulu , 1999
  • Café Electric (Max Nagl Quintet), 1999
  • Otto Lechner / Max Nagl: En Passant , 1999
  • Max Nagl Trio Falarm , 1999
  • Rayuela , 1999
  • One Plus One (with Patrice Heral, Joanna Lewis , Martin Siewert , Achim Tang , Berndt Thurner ), Rude Noises 1999
  • Hidden Whisper (film soundtrack), 2000
  • barcode (Max Nagl Quintet), Rude Noises 2001
  • The Evil Garden (with Noël Akchoté, Lol Coxhill , Patrice Héral, Josef Novotny, Julie Tippetts ), November Music 2001
  • Ramasuri (Max Nagl Ensemble), 2001
  • Vienna - West (with Lol Coxhill, Anne Harvey-Nagl ), Rude Noises 2001
  • I Crashed My Snowplough (with Herbert Reisinger , Jatinder Thakur , Berndt Thurner, Robbie Avenaim ), Rude Noises 2003
  • Flamingos (trio with Otto Lechner and Brad Jones), hatOLOGY 2003
  • Quartier Du Faisan with Franz Hautzinger , Luis Ribeiro , Achim Tang), 2004
  • Big Four (with Noël Akchoté, Steven Bernstein, Bradley Jones), hatOLOGY 2005
  • Big Four Live , hatOLOGY 2007
  • Quartier Du Faisan (Max Nagl Ensemble)
  • The seventh heaven in quarters ORF CD 403
  • Rain / Bow (with Emily Nagl , Anne Harvey-Nagl, Maria Ehmer , Petra Ackermann , Melissa Coleman , Lorenz Raab , Clemens Salesny , Berndt Thurner, Achim Tang, Patrice Héral)
  • Market lawn (with Clemens Wenger , Herbert Pirker ) Handsemmel Records 2006
  • Thump! Zack! Vol II , extra plate 2007
  • CODE (with Ken Vandermark , Clayton Thomas , Wolfgang Reisinger)
  • Boulazac (with Clemens Wenger, Herbert Pirker), Rude Noises 016/2009
  • Big Four / Sortileges (with Noël Akchoté, Steven Bernstein, Brad Jones), Extraplatte, Rude Noises 017/2009
  • Big Four & Joey Baron (2009, ed. 2018), with

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personal data
SURNAME Nagl, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian jazz saxophonist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 5th October 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Gmunden