Peter Niklas Wilson
Peter Niklas Wilson (born May 30, 1957 - October 26, 2003 ) was a German jazz double bass player, musicologist and journalist.
Life
Wilson studied music at the Universities of Göttingen and Hamburg and taught as a part-time professor for jazz history at the Hamburg University of Music and as a private lecturer at the Institute of Musicology. As a double bass player he worked a. a. with Fred Frith , Marion Brown , Gene Coleman , Vinko Globokar , Barry Guy , Peter Kowald , Evan Parker , Keith Rowe , Derek Bailey , Anthony Braxton , Malcolm Goldstein , David Malazonia , John Tchicai and Daniel Ott and is as a sideman to more than fifty Listening to albums.
He was a co-founder of the Hamburg musician initiative TonArt eV and a member of the TonArt Ensemble and founded the record label TrueMuze in 1998 with Rajesh Mehta and Vlatko Kucan . With Hannes Wienert and Björn Lücker he formed the Alphea group .
Wilson analyzed the situation of freely improvised music and the strategy of musical reduction to the essentials, wrote articles on improvisers for the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik as well as monographs on Albert Ayler , Anthony Braxton , Ornette Coleman , Miles Davis , Charlie Parker and Sonny Rollins . A planned CD production in a trio with saxophonist John Tchicai and drummer Makaya Ntshoko did not materialize because Wilson had previously succumbed to leukemia .
Works
- Hear and Now. Thoughts on improvised music , Wolke Verlag, Hofheim 1999, ISBN 978-3-923997-88-6
- with Ulfert Goeman, Charlie Parker , Oreos Verlag, Waakirchen 1988
- Ornette Coleman , Oreos Verlag 1989 (English Berkeley Hills Books 1999)
- Sonny Rollins , Oreos Verlag 1991
- Anthony Braxton , Oreos Verlag 1993
- Spirits Rejoice! - Albert Ayler and his message , Wolke Verlag, Hofheim 1996
- Miles Davis , Oreos Verlag 2001
- Sonny Rollins - The Definite Musical Guide , Berkeley Hills Books 2001
- Reduction - on the topicality of a musical strategy , Schott Verlag, Mainz 2003
- Peter N. Wilson (Ed.), Jazz-Klassiker , 2 vols., Reclam-Verlag, Ditzingen 2005, ISBN 978-3150300305 (98 portraits)
Web links
- Literature by and about Peter Niklas Wilson in the catalog of the German National Library
- Obituary of the Darmstadt Jazz Institute with a list of publications
- Another obituary with photo and links
Individual evidence
- ↑ According to Tom Lord ( The Jazz Discography , online, May 26, 2014) he can be found on 8 recordings in the field of jazz.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Wilson, Peter Niklas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz bassist, musicologist and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 30, 1957 |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 26, 2003 |