Ned Rothenberg

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Ned Rothenberg at the Moers Festival 2004
Ned Rothenberg at the Appleby Jazz Festival 2007

Ned Rothenberg (born September 15, 1956 in Boston ) is an American jazz and improvisation musician (clarinets, alto saxophone, flutes).

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Rothenberg had already learned the clarinet as a child and conquered all woodwind instruments up to the Japanese shakuhachi . He studied at the Oberlin Conservatory and the Berklee College of Music . In 1978 he moved to New York, where he soon played with John Zorn , Fred Frith , Elliott Sharp and Arto Lindsay . Soon he also began playing solo concerts. He went on tour with Tom Cora , Peter Hollinger and Elliott Sharp in the Soviet Union, soon toured with Sainkho Namtchylak , with whom he recorded the duo album Amulet . He also played in the Trio New Winds with the flautist Robert Dick and JD Parran , Herb Robertson and Gerry Hemingway , but also in the Trio Sync with the guitarist Jerome Harris and the tabla player Samir Chatterjee . He performed at the Moers Festival with his sextet Double Band . He has also made duo recordings with Evan Parker , played in his electro-acoustic ensemble ( The Moment's Energy , 2009) and has been on records by Steve Lacy , Jason Hwang , Anthony Braxton , Marc Ribot , Tom Varner , George Lewis and Hamid Drake ( Full Circle - Live in Lodz , 2018). According to Martin Kunzler, his music, which is less based on styles than on the personalities of the fellow players, has inspired other musicians' recording projects - from Kip Hanrahan to Heiner Goebbels .

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SURNAME Rothenberg, Ned
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz and improvisation musician (clarinets, alto saxophone, flutes)
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston