Meinhard Puhl

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Meinhard Puhl (born October 11, 1942 ; † December 8, 2013 ) was a German jazz and fusion musician ( double bass , electric bass , trombone ), arranger and music teacher who was active in the music scene in Dortmund .

Live and act

Meinhard Puhl studied trombone and double bass; In the late 1960s he played in the Wolf Escher Quintet, with which the first recordings were made, and in Escher's band Time in Space . In 1971 the jazz rock band Strinx ( Talk to the Wind , 1973) was formed around him . Between 1969 and 1981 he was involved in several recording sessions, including a. with the Dortmund jazz ensemble. In 1975 he accompanied the singer Fasia Jansen on her album Portrait . He toured with Waldo Karpenkiel's Supersession in the early 1980s.

With Glen Buschmann , Wolf Escher and Wolfgang Breuer, he was one of the founding members of the JugendJazzOrchester NRW in 1975 ; he belonged to 1995 the artistic management team and contributed to the orchestra repertoire numerous Big Band - Arrangements for. Puhl died in December 2013 at the age of 71.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Obituary at Landesmusikrat NRW ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lmr-nrw.de
  2. ↑ Biographical data at Musikmacher Dortmund ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musikmacher-dortmund.de
  3. ^ Uta C. Schmidt, Andreas Müller and Richard Ortmann: Jazz in Dortmund. Hot - Modern - Free - New , Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2004, p. 156 f.
  4. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography , online, accessed December 19, 2013
  5. ↑ Fasia - Portrait on Discogs
  6. ↑ Klaus M. Schmidt: Supersession - A legend returns , Westdeutsche Zeitung , June 15, 2011
  7. ↑ Steve Freeman, Alan Freeman: The crack in the cosmic egg: encyclopedia of Krautrock, Kosmische musik & other progressive, experimental & electronic musics from Germany , Audion Publications, Leicester 1996, p. 180 f.
  8. ^ Heinz Geilich: Supersession - Welcome & Alive (2LP) - 1982 , krautrock-musik Zirkus.de
  9. ↑ JugendJazzOrchester Nordrhein-Westfalen - Beau Rivage on Discogs
personal data
SURNAME Puhl, Meinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz and fusion musician (double bass, electric bass, trombone), arranger and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1942
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 2013