Peter Herborn
Peter Herborn (born September 25, 1955 in Essen ) is a German jazz musician (trombonist, band leader, arranger), composer and university lecturer.
Life
Herborn worked in the field of modern jazz as well as chamber music. In the 1980s he worked with the group Noctett , with Maria João , Leszek Zadlo and the septet Acute Insights he directed , with whom he recorded two albums. His preoccupation with the big band sound resulted in the albums "Large one" and "Large two". In 2005 he composed the opera Lorca about the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca for WDR .
In 1988 he co-founded the jazz music division of the Folkwang Hochschule Essen , which he has headed ever since, and where he works as a professor of composition, arrangement and theory. His book Jazz Arrangement is considered a standard work in German-speaking countries.
Discography
- Subtle Wildness , 1985
- Peter Herborn's Acute Insights with Wollie Kaiser , Hugo Read , Jo Thönes , Tim Wells , Kenny Wheeler , 1987–88
- Something staff with Django Bates , Tim Berne , Marc Ducret , Lindsey Horner , 1991
- Traces of Trane with the WDR Big Band Köln (feat. Marc Ducret, Robin Eubanks , Mark Helias , Tom Rainey , Gary Thomas ), 1992
- Large One with Dave Ballou , Uri Caine , Robin Eubanks, Clark Gayton , Dan Gottshall , Taylor Haskins , John Hébert , Mike Herting , Gene Jackson , Marian Kaul , Adam Kolker , Jackie McLean , Jeff Nelson , Greg Osby , Marvin Sewell , Alex Stewart , John Swana , Gary Thomas, McCoy Tyner , Dontae Winslow , 1997
- Peter Herborn Large Two with Gene Jackson, Greg Osby, Robin Eubanks and Gary Thomas, 2003
Compositions
- On Golden Wings , string quartet, 1993
- European Forces , 1994
- Incidental music for “The Wedding” by Elias Canetti , 1996
- Incidental music for "Ghetto" by Joshua Sobol , 1998
- Lorca , Opera, 2005
Fonts
- Jazz arrangement , 1995 (No longer available.)
- Jazz Arranging / Jazz Arrangement , (Bilingual Edition) 2010
literature
- Martin Kunzler : Jazz Lexicon. Volume 1: A – L (= rororo-Sachbuch. Vol. 16512). 2nd Edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-499-16512-0 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Peter Herborn in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Herborn, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz musician (trombonist, band leader, arranger), composer and university lecturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 25, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | eat |