Rüdiger Baldauf

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Rüdiger Baldauf (2010)

Rüdiger Baldauf (born January 31, 1961 in Bensberg ) is a German jazz trumpeter .

Life

Soon in 1980 he graduated from the Nicolaus-Cusanus-Gymnasium in Bergisch Gladbach . Before that he played in the school orchestra and the school's big band. Then studied Baldauf first at the Cologne Music Academy . Abt Aachen , then through a scholarship from the Karajan Foundation in Berlin classical trumpet. His teachers included Robert Platt and the Dutch jazz trumpeter Ack van Rooyen .

Soon he completed a classical music education, but his preference was early on jazz , funk and soul . As a border crosser between the musical worlds, classical trumpet literature is just as much on Baldauf's agenda as new music by Mauricio Kagel .

Baldauf played with James Brown , Liza Minnelli , Seal , Shirley Bassey , Michael Bublé and the Pro Brass ensemble and various symphony orchestras. He also went on tours with Maceo Parker , Joe Zawinul , Shirley Bassey, Udo Juergens , Jennifer Rush and Barbra Streisand . From 1999 to 2002 he was a member of the United Jazz + Rock Ensemble . He has been a member of the Paul Kuhn Orchestra since 1992 and is a regular guest musician in German radio big bands, especially the WDR Big Band Cologne .

From 1989 to 1999 he was a lecturer in jazz trumpet at the Cologne University of Music, Dept. Aachen. In addition to teaching at trumpet and big band seminars and workshops, he was a guest lecturer at the Folkwang Music Academy in Essen.

The studio musician worked on around 100 studio albums in the late 1980s and 1990s and toured with an orchestra. He was also a member of the RTL Allstars in the first German comedy TV show RTL Saturday Night . From 2003 until the program was discontinued in 2015, he played in Stefan Raab's late night show TV totally as part of the heavytones with which he accompanied many world stars from all genres, such as B. Lionel Richie, the soprano Cecilia Bartoli, or the pop star Jamie Cullum.

In June 2010 he released his first album Own Style under his own leadership with guests from the jazz scene such as Till Brönner , Nils Landgren , Ack van Rooyen , Andy Haderer and Max Mutzke . Here he appeared for the first time as a composer and arranger. In July 2010 the album was number 21 in the “Top 30 Jazz Albums” in the German charts . Since 2010 he can also be found at festivals with his own project, Own Style . a. with Billy Cobham , Eric Marienthal , Jimmy Haslip and Ack van Rooyen. In 2013 he released an album with vocal guests, u. a. with Edo Zanki . His album Jackson Trip (with guest musicians such as Bill Evans and Dean Brown ) was released in September 2017.

Discographic notes

  • 1984 Gianna Nannini Profumo
  • 1989 WDR Big Band Cologne with John Scofield East Coast Blow Out
  • 1994 Eddie Harris Last Concert with the WDR Big Band Cologne
  • 1996 EuroJazz with the European Community Jazz Orchestra
  • 1996 Köstritzer Jazz Orchestra The Magic of Black
  • 1999 Bernard Purdie Soul to Jazz
  • 2000 Wolfgang Haffner Music
  • 2002 No Angels When the Angels Swing
  • 2003 Paul Kuhn / Bert Kaempfert Remember When
  • 2006 heavytones No. 1
  • 2006 Joo Kraus Basic Jazz Lounge The Ride
  • 2006 SEAL One Night to Remember
  • 2010 Own Style (solo debut album)
  • 2012 Trumpet Night Live DVD / CD
  • 2013 Vocal Night
  • 2017 Jackson Trip
  • 2017 WDR Big Band Steps Ahead Steppin 'Out

Publications

  • 2012 Play Your Own Style . Voggenreiter Verlag (Playalong book with CD)
  • 2012 The Trumpet Guide: Guide for the Trumpet Case . Voggenreiter Verlag, ISBN 978-3802409417

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.jazzecho.de/service/charts/ , accessed on July 30, 2010
  2. ↑ Debut album "Own Style" ( Memento of the original from July 3, 2010 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ruedigerbaldauf.de
  3. ↑ Rüdiger Baldauf is the new VINCENT BACH and CONN artist. Retrieved June 21, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Soon, Rudiger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz trumpeter
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Bensberg