Meinrad Kneer
Meinrad Kneer (born May 8, 1970 in Munderkingen ) is a German jazz bassist.
Kneer studied biology at the University of Tübingen and from 1995 to 1999 double bass at the Hilversum and Amsterdam Conservatories. He has since performed with musicians such as Najma Akhtar , Han Bennink , Fred Frith , Tobias Delius , Tristan Honsinger , Denise Jannah , Anne La Berge , Paul Lovens , Tony Overwater , Michael Vatcher and Corrie van Binsbergen . As a sideman he played u. a. in the groups Bite the Gnatze , Play Station 6 , the Joost Buis Tentet , The Gravitones , I Compani and Spoon 3 .
Together with Tobias Klein , he led the Dalgoo group from 1998 to 2005 , with which he was awarded the Jur Naessens Muziek Prijs in 2002. He also plays in a trio with Albert van Veenendaal and Yonga Sun . With the flautist Mark Alban Lotz he organizes a weekly concert series for improvisation music in Utrecht. In 2006 he founded the record label Evil Rabbit Records with Albert van Veendaal . He worked on dance projects with Jack Gallagher , Suzan Tunca and Reinier Schimmel .
Discographic notes
- Dalgoo: Dalgoo , 2000
- Bite the Gnatze: Wild Dance In Een Afgere Berghut , 2003
- Deep Fried Angel Fish: 1 , 2004
- Music for Baby (with Barbara Lüneburg and Doris Hochscheid ), 2004
- van Veenendaal / Kneer / Sun: Songs to dance strangely , 2005
- President of the Globe: President of the Globe , 2005
- Gravitones: Live at the BIMHuis , 2006
- I Compani: Museum of Emotions , 2006, with Bo van de Graaf , Ewout Dercksen, Tessa Zoutendijk, Michel Mulder , Hans Hasebos , Albert van Veenendaal, Yonga Sun, as well as Emanuel Pessanha, Gülendem Wubuli, Simon Vinkenoog, Quirine Melssen, Simin Tander
- Kneer / van Veenendaal: The Munderkingen Sessions , 2006
- From Baars / Meinrad Kneer: Windfall (Evil Rabbit, 2010)
- Meinrad Kneer & Mark Alban Lotz U-EX (perimental) (Evil Rabbit Records 2011, with Jodi Gilbert, Alfredo Genovesi, Guillaume Heurtebize, Dana Jessen , Mary Oliver , Yedo Gibson, Felicity Provan , Joost Buis , Koenraad Ecker, Maraatsj ten Hoorn )
- Andreas Willers , Meinrad Kneer, Christian Marien Nulli Secundus , 2012
- Phosphoros Ensemble Plays Christian Morgenstern , 2015 (with Frank Gratkowski , Kathrin Pechlof , Almut Kühne , Uli Pleßmann)
- Oneirology ( JazzHausMusik 2015, with Sebastian Piskorz, Gerhard Gschlößl , Peter van Huffel , Andreas Pichler )
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kneer, Meinrad |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz bassist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 8, 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munderkingen |