Paul Nieman

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Paul Nieman (born June 9, 1950 in Hampstead , London ) is a British trombonist who is particularly known in the field of avant-garde jazz .

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Paul Nieman, son of the composer Alfred Nieman, first studied at the Polytechnic Institute in Chiswick . During this time he also played in the National Youth Jazz Orchestra . He then studied at the Guildhall School of Music from 1969 to 1972 and worked with leading jazz and rock musicians on the English scene, such as Mike Westbrook (on Metropolis , 1971), George Harrison , the London Jazz Composers' Orchestra , where he was on the Album Ode from 1972 can be heard, as well as Paul Rutherford , on whose production Sequences 72 & 74 he participated. He has also worked with John Surman , Keith Tippett , Stan Tracey , John Dankworth , Gil Evans , Diana Ross and the Soft Machine formation . He also played classical music , especially early music.

Until 1999 he worked as a trombone teacher at the Guildhall School of Music . Nieman founded his own band called Elephant together with Steve Lodder , for which he also composed. In the field of early music he performed with the ensembles His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts , The New London Consort and The Gabrieli Consort until 1999 . But he also worked with the orchestras of John Eliot Gardiner . He now lives in Brighton , where he is active as a musician and music teacher.

After Ian Carr , Nieman's style as a trombonist was influenced by Jimmy Knepper , Jack Teagarden and Bob Brookmeyer , as well as by Mingus , the Brecker Brothers and Stockhausen .

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SURNAME Nieman, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British jazz trombonist
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Hampstead , London