Rudiger Carl

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Rüdiger Carl (born April 26, 1944 in Goldap , East Prussia ) is a German free jazz musician (clarinet, accordion; formerly also tenor and alto saxophone), improvisation artist and composer.

Live and act

Carl, who grew up in Kassel and learned the accordion as a child, completed a typesetter apprenticeship at the Bärenreiter-Verlag . During this time he played Latin jazz and hardbop as a flautist . To avoid military service, he went to West Berlin in 1966, where he learned the tenor saxophone as an autodidact . In the scene around Jost Gebers, he approached free jazz from 1968 .

In 1970 he moved to Wuppertal , where he recorded his first record with Günter Christmann and Detlef Schönenberg in 1972 ( King Alcohol ). From 1973 to 1976 he was a member of the Globe Unity Orchestra . 1973 began his long-term cooperation with Irène Schweizer , which was mostly expanded, such as Radu Malfatti , Harry Miller , Paul Lovens , Arjen Gorter and Louis Moholo (quintet, quartet, trio with Moholo on drums, duo. In 1977 Carl also began a solo career. Since the same year he played with Hans Reichel in various groups (duo, later also in the Bergisch-Brandenburg Quartet (with Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky and Sven-Åke Johansson ), as well as in the September Band (with Shelley Hirsch and Paul Lovens) and in Trio Manuela with Carlos Zingaro ). 1978 began a long-term artistic partnership with Sven-Åke Johansson (several CDs as a duo and in a trio (with Joe Williamson ), as well as appearances with the Swing Dance Band (later Night & Day ) with Alexander von Schlippenbach and The bassist Jay Oliver ) .In his quintet COWWS he brought along with Irène Schweizer Phil Wachsmann on violin, Stephan Wittwer on guitar and alternating bassists - Jay Oliver, Arjen Gorter , Barre Phillips ). He also founded the Canvas Trio in 1991 with Zingaro and Joëlle Léandre .

From 1988 to 1992 he organized the music in the Portikus - now living in Frankfurt am Main with his partner, the gallery owner Bärbel Grässlin . From 1994 he was the director of the FIM orchestra in Frankfurt (with FIM initiator Alfred Harth, among others ). He also worked with Markus and Albert Oehlen and Martin Kippenberger . Then he worked in the duo with Burkard Kunkel and in the trio Blank with Oliver Augst and Christoph Korn , with whom he also organized the pol -Festival and produced radio plays. In his compositions he processes influences from minimal music and increasingly uses sampling .

Radio plays

  • Otium , based on the artist book of the same name by Franz West , by Oliver Augst, with Rüdiger Carl and Heimo Zobernig , ORF 2017. Published as LP in 2018 by Koenig Books London . Edited by Astrid Ihle. Text by Benedikt Ledebur . Concept & Design: Heimo Zobernig. Slipcase with a record in sleeve & 2 booklets (12 pp. & 32 pp.) - text in German & English. language
  • Kippenberger Hören (Augst / Carl), RBB / DLR 2008 (with Sven-Åke Johansson)
  • OBEN - Beltz Remixed by Oliver Augst and Rüdiger Carl, Badly Organized Label, Mille Plateaux .

literature

  • Astrid Ihle, Bastian Zimmermann (Eds.) From Goldap: Rüdiger Carl in conversation with Oliver Augst. With six text solos and a CD with 17 songs by Rüdiger Carl . Weissbooks, Frankfurt am Main 2014; ISBN 978-3863370794

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personal data
SURNAME Carl, Rudiger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician, composer and improvisation artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Goldap , East Prussia