Rainer Pusch

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Rainer Pusch (born April 26, 1954 in Nuremberg ) is a German tenor saxophonist of modern jazz .

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Pusch received saxophone lessons from the age of twelve. He studied mathematics and physics at the University of Heidelberg until he completed his intermediate diploma and then became a professional musician. From 1977 he took lessons from Pony Poindexter , then from George Coleman , before formally completing his training at Berklee College of Music from 1981 to 1983 . During this time he played with Doug Hammond , went on international tours with the crew of Frédéric Rabold and recorded his first album in 1980 with his own quartet. In 1984, in addition to his combos, he founded a big band in Heidelberg , with whom he toured the south of France in 1986 and performed with Art Farmer and Peter Herbolzheimer . In 1988 he performed his setting of the poem “Die Dunkelheit ist da” ( Elisabeth Alexander ) at the Mannheim Jazz Festival . The following year he toured with Horace Parlan and worked in a duo with Alex Donner. He also played in a trio with Claudine François and John Betsch as well as with Albert Mangelsdorff , Emil Mangelsdorff , Leszek Zadlo , Adelhard Roidinger , Karl Berger and Peter Kowald . In 1992 he toured with Peter Bockius in Indonesia and moved to southern France, where he performed with musicians such as Siegfried Kessler and Patrice Héral . Since 1997 he has been working extensively with Indian music, working for Bollywood studios as well as with musicians such as Louis Banks and Amit Heri and with his own indo jazz group Karuna . Thomas Stabenow , Michael Kersting and Martin Scales play in his quartet Reloaded .

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  • Rainer Pusch Meets Horace Parlan (1989)
  • The Beginning and the End (1997)
  • In between those Changes (1995)

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SURNAME Push, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg