Glen Bushman
Rainer "Glen" Buschmann (born March 17, 1928 in Dortmund as Rainer Buschmann ; † July 9, 1995 in Dortmund) was a German jazz musician , composer and music teacher.
Life
Buschmann studied clarinet , saxophone and piano at the Dortmund Conservatory and at the Folkwang University in Essen and composition in Freiburg im Breisgau with Julius Weismann . After the Second World War, like his brother Pit Buschmann, he was interested in jazz and initially played in the combo of the newly founded Hot Club Düsseldorf. From 1947 on he traveled as a jazz and ensemble musician, among others with Joe Wick ; from 1949 he got involved in the newly founded Hot Club Dortmund . From 1952 Buschmann taught as a music teacher at adult education centers . He also led his own jazz combo .
From 1958 to 1962 he was a harpsichordist and conductor with the Dortmund Chamber Orchestra . Between 1963 and 1992 Buschmann headed the Dortmund music school. In 1960, together with Bruno Tetzner and Dietrich Schulz-Köhn , he was the founder of the several week courses in jazz music at the Remscheid Academy , which were aimed at amateur musicians. From 1964 to 1979 he was also a saxophone teacher and head of the jazz seminar at the Cologne University of Music . In addition, from 1972 he was a saxophone teacher and head of the jazz seminar at the Musikhochschule Westfalen-Lippe . In 1975 Buschmann founded the “ JugendJazzOrchester Nordrhein-Westfalen ” with Meinhard Puhl , Wolf Escher and Wolfgang Breuer , with whom he toured the Soviet Union, India, the USA, Africa and Australia.
Buschmann wrote numerous compositions from simple jazz themes to choral, orchestral and stage works. He also wrote some works for plucked orchestra . In 1982 he was appointed professor by the Science Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia for his services.
The Glen Buschmann Jazz Academy is named after Glen Buschmann and is headed by Martin Peitz and Uwe Plath as an independent area within the "House Of Popular Music" at the Dortmund Music School .
literature
- Christian Bönschen, Andreas Müller, Richard Ortmann, Uta C. Schmidt: Jazz in Dortmund after 1945. A new metropolis of jazz . Geschichtswerkstatt Dortmund eV (ed.), Klartext Verlag, Essen 2004, ISBN 3-89861-300-3
- Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler, Christian Pfarr: Reclam's Jazz Guide . 3rd, revised and expanded edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-15-010355-X .
Individual evidence
- ^ Founder Dietrich Schulz-Köhn
Web links
- Works by and about Glen Buschmann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Web presence
- Composers in the Ruhr area: Collection of the Essen Music Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bushman, Glen |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Buschmann, Rainer (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 17, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dortmund |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 9, 1995 |
| Place of death | Dortmund |