Nikolaus Neuser

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Nikolaus Neuser (2nd from left) with Heliocentric Counterblast (2013)

Nikolaus Neuser (* 1972 in Siegen ) is a German jazz musician ( trumpet , flugelhorn ).

Live and act

Neuser studied from 1994 to 1998 at the Folkwang University in Essen with Uli Beckerhoff . In 1999 he moved to Berlin, where he a. a. with the Hannes Zerbe Jazz Orchestra ( Eisleriana and Erlkönig ), the Berlin Jazz Orchestra , the Potsa Lotsa formation (with Gerhard Gschlößl , Patrick Braun, Silke Eberhard ), the Satoko Fujii Orchestra Berlin , The Alliteration and the Fun Horns (with Volker Schlott , Falk Breitkreuz , Jörg Huke ), of which he has been a member since 2012, works. He also heads the Nikolaus Neuser 5tet (with Bernd Oezsevim , Gerhard Gschlößl, Johannes Fink and Silke Eberhard). In 2015 he presented the album Pink Elephant (Jazzwerkstatt). The internationally acclaimed album Mingus Mingus Mingus ( Leo Records ) followed in 2016 with the trio I Am Three (with Silke Eberhard and Christian Marien ).

Neuser gave concerts and worked a. a. with Maggie Nicols , Matana Roberts , Tyshawn Sorey , Joe Morris , Tomas Fujiwara , Benny Bailey , Theo Jörgensmann , Herb Geller , Paul Kuhn , Ernst Bier and Peter Herbolzheimer .

Cooperation with the Federal Foreign Office , the Goethe Institute and the DAAD enabled him to stay and touring in China, Thailand, Vietnam, North Africa, Lebanon, the USA, Saudi Arabia, Central Asia, Europe and Colombia, where he also worked in 2005 and 2007 taught at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá .

In the field of pop music he has appeared on albums by Seeed , Peter Fox , Miss Platnum , 4hero , Pohlmann and others. a. to listen. He also worked with the Sonar Kollektiv Orchestra and in the 2000s in Electronic - Jazz project trondheym . Since November 2017 he has been the chairman of the Union of German Jazz Musicians .

Discographic notes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Biography (Fun Horns)
  2. Discogs (online, accessed November 12, 2016)
  3. Discogs
  4. ^ Website of the Berlin Jazz Orchestra
  5. ^ Website of the Fun Horns
  6. Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed July 1, 2016)
  7. eyecatcherblog (accessed on January 21, 2018)
  8. Jazzfest Berlin , (online archive, accessed on January 20, 2018)
  9. Video (accessed January 20, 2018)
  10. Discogs (accessed January 20, 2018)
  11. Discogs (accessed January 20, 2018)
  12. ↑ Brief portrait at the Berlin Jazz Orchestra
  13. Mentioned albums on Discogs
  14. Press release of the UDJ
  15. Jazzwerkstatt website
  16. Satoko Fujii's website , accessed January 11, 2018
  17. Leo Records website ,