Ove Volquartz

Ove Volquartz (* 1949 ) is a German improvisation musician ( clarinets , also saxophones , flute ) and composer , who initially emerged as a fusion and jazz musician and as a music teacher .

Act

Volquartz initially belonged to the herb rock band Annexus Quam , with whom he presented two albums from 1970, which first explored jazz rock and then an opening to free jazz ; the band also toured Japan and Tunisia. He played at the Moers Festival with Bernd Köppen's trio .

In the early 1980s, Volquartz was a member of Gunter Hampel's big band ( Cavanna 1982). Then he was part of the Abbey Rader quintet . He also worked as a music teacher at the grammar school. On the subject of improvisation and the "flow" experience. Empirical investigation of the possibilities and limits of river experience in music lessons in upper secondary school , he received his doctorate in musicology at the University of Hamburg in 1999 . He has also worked with musicians such as Cecil Taylor , Roscoe Mitchell , Peter Kowald , Barre Phillips , Sabu Toyozumi , Perry Robinson and Peeter Uuskyla . He also improvises with the organist Peer Schlechta ( Dreizweit , 2018) and with contemporary composers such as Daniel Ott .

Volquartz, who is one of the organizers of the Göttingen Jazz Days, also performed at the Leipzig Jazz Days and the Leverkusen Jazz Days as well as at the jazz festival in Holstebro, Denmark. He toured Liberia with drummer Kojo Samuels. In 2013, the album Glance and Many Avenues was created with the Italian improvisation trio Reciprocal Uncles (which includes, alongside Cristiano Calcagnile, Gianni Mimmo and Gianni Lenoci ). FMR Records released the album Answers and Maybe a Question? , which he recorded with Udo Schindler , Unit Records the album Artoxin with Schindler and Gunnar Geisse . He can also be heard on albums by Abbey Rader, the TAG Trio, Second Exit and the Cecil Taylor Workshop Ensemble .

Web links

• portrait
• Ove Volquartz at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Interview