Oliver Steidle
Oliver Bernd Steidle (* 25. May 1975 in Nuremberg ) is a German jazz - drummer , composer and bandleader of the new improvised music.
Life and work
Steidle grew up in Nuremberg. At the age of seven he learned piano, from 11 he learned drums, from 16 years vibraphone. He gained his first experience in garage rock bands, youth big bands and in the “Bavarian First Herd” ( big band ) and then studied with Hans-Günter Brodmann at the Nuremberg University of Music . He also took lessons from musicians such as Ralph Peterson , Wolfgang Haffner and Jochen Rückert . The winner of two music competitions (1998, 1999) initially worked with Lutz Häffner, Johannes Fink , Thomas Fink , Rudi Mahall , John Schröder , Peter Less and Alejandro Sánchez.
Steidle has lived in Berlin since 2001 and plays in formations with Kalle Kalima , Alexander von Schlippenbach and Aki Takase as well as Larry Porter , Philipp Gropper and in the Uli Kempendorff Quartet. He also played on tours in Switzerland, Argentina, China and Africa. Cooperations with international jazz greats such as Louis Sclavis , Tomasz Stańko , Kurt Rosenwinkel , Sean Bergin , Simon Nabatov and Richie Beirach can be proven. In the trio Die dicken Finger (with guitarist Olaf Rupp and bassist Jan Roder), based on the hard rock music styles Grindcore and Metal, their sporty steam hammer structures are fanned out through playful improvisation and radical changes in tempo.
The quartet combo Soko Steidle is named after him as band leader. Together with Rudi Mahall on bass clarinet, Henrik Walsdorff on alto saxophone, Jan Roder on bass, improvisation is mostly done freely. Since 2002 he has played a key role in shaping the Berlin formation Der Rotebereich; he was part of their album Risky Business (2002) for the first time. In the Monk's Casino formation founded in the mid-1990s (with Alex von Schlippenbach, Rudi Mahall, Axel Dörner and Jan Roder), in which he has been involved since 2013, Thelonious Monk's oeuvre is researched and reinterpreted.
At the time, Frank Möbus wrote about Steidle: "With him the complex rhythms become more understandable - he anticipates the form of the composition". Many of the compositions in the formations he leads or co-designed as a co-leader come from his pen.
He plays in the HDRS quartet with Axel Dörner , Tristan Honsinger and Olaf Rupp .
Oliver Steidle is married and has a daughter and a son.
Awards
Formations, which he played a key role in shaping, have twice won the main prize of the New German Jazz Prize, endowed with 10,000 euros : in 2006 with The Red Area and in 2008 with Klima Kalima . In March 2008, Oliver Steidle also received the prize of 1,000 euros for the festival's best soloist.
Discographic notes
- The Red Area - Risky Business (2002 / ACT Music ) with Frank Möbus , Rudi Mahall
- Klima Kalima - Helsinki on My Mind (2004 / ZYX Music ) with Kalle Kalima , Oliver Potratz
- SoKo Steidle - Get in and Get Everything Out (2006 / Konnex Records ) with Rudi Mahall, Henrik Walsdorff , Jan Roder
- SoKo Steidle - Blaulicht (2008 / Jazzwerkstatt Berlin Brandenburg) with Rudi Mahall, Henrik Walsdorff, Jan Roder
- SoKo Steidle - Maximum Boredom (2010 / Jazzwerkstatt Berlin) with Rudi Mahall, Henrik Walsdorff, Jan Roder
- The Red Area - 7 (2010 / Intakt Records ) with Frank Möbus, Rudi Mahall
- SoKo Steidle - Played Ellington (2015 / Jazzwerkstatt Berlin Brandenburg) with Rudi Mahall, Henrik Walsdorff, Jan Roder
- Field - Heal the Rich (2016 / WhyPlayJazz ) with Uli Kempendorff, Ronny Graupe , Jonas Westergaard
Web links
- Literature by and about Oliver Steidle in the catalog of the German National Library
- Oliver Steidle's website
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c http://www.ndolofilms.com/denis/jazzkeller.html
- ↑ a b http://www.geometry.net/pianists/takase_aki.html
- ↑ Short biography on Vic First website
- ↑ Catalog ( Memento of the original from April 20, 2009 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. Jazz4Ever
- ↑ http://www.myspace.com/klimakalima
- ↑ a b Band presentation of the red area ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Goethe Institute 2013
- ↑ German Jazz Meeting : SOKO STEIDLE Friday, April 23, 2010 Congress Centrum Bremen, Salon Borgward ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 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.
- ↑ Intakt Records: CD Reviews “The Red Area 7” Intakt CD 182
- ↑ The red area: "Risky Business" ( memento of the original from July 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (engl.)
- ↑ Press release from: JAZZ'n'ARTS: New German Jazz Prize , March 6, 2008
- ↑ - ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2014 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.
- ↑ ACT Music - In the spirit of jazz: Homepage - ACT Music - In the spirit of jazz. In: ACT Music. Retrieved November 25, 2016 .
- ↑ ZYX Germany: Music and Videos. In: www.zyx.de. Retrieved November 25, 2016 .
- ^ Konnex Music Group: Konnex Music Group. In: www.konnex-records.de. Retrieved November 25, 2016 .
- ↑ INTAKT RECORDS. In: www.intaktrec.ch. Retrieved November 25, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Steidle, Oliver |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Steidle, Oliver Bernd (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz drummer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 25, 1975 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuremberg |