Ralf Dombrowski

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Ralf Dombrowski (* 1965 ) is a German jazz journalist, jazz author and music photographer.

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Dombrowski studied German, history and philosophy. He has been a music journalist since 1994, who, among other things , headed the jazz editorial department in the features section for the Süddeutsche Zeitung from 2006 to 2008 and was responsible for the Jazz Edition CD series as editor and author. In addition, he writes for numerous music media such as the jazz newspaper , Jazz thing or the British London Jazz News and works regularly for the Bavarian Radio (moderation of the Jazztime program on BR-Klassik). He also heads the music departments of the specialist magazine Stereoplay and the cultural magazine Münchner Feuilleton .

He also works for various online media; For example, he set up the Internet portal Jazz from Germany for the Goethe Institute . He also writes for Spiegel Online and has written numerous reviews or lexicon articles on jazz, for example at Microsoft Encarta , for Reclam's jazz guide (edited by Wolf Kampmann , Ekkehard Jost ), the Bertelsmann music dictionary and the standard work Jazz Standards (edited by Hans-Jürgen Schaal ). He lives in Unterschleißheim near Munich and works mainly as a freelance journalist and photographer, but also as a lecturer, presenter or DJ.

From 1998 to 2014 he directed the jazz festival at Schloss Elmau (European Jazztival); He was also a juror at Echo Jazz , Jazz Burghausen and the German Record Critics' Prize . From 2002 to 2004 he was artistic director of the Jazz au Chellah jazz festival in Rabat , Morocco. Since 2011 he has also been working as a music photographer. In January 2014, his first photo exhibition Faces & Traces was opened in the Munich Jazz & Painting gallery of the Unterfahrt jazz club . Another comprehensive retrospective on concert photography followed in March 2015 in the House of Photography in Burghausen. At the Jazz World Photo Competition 2019 in Trutnov, Czech Republic, one of his photos was awarded 4th place.

Dombrowski has produced albums (including the trio Rouge with Vincent Courtois , Michel Godard , Lucilla Galeazzi ) and plays as a hobby musician in various bands, including guitar and piano in a Munich critic band La Banda .

Prizes and awards

In 2013 Dombrowski received the Prize for German Jazz Journalism from the Jazzahead music fair . The jury recognized his wide-ranging specialist knowledge and his broad stylistic and formal spectrum as a music critic.

CD publications

Süddeutsche Zeitung Jazz Edition: Dive into Jazz , 18 CDs, 2011

Fonts

  • John Coltrane - his life, his music, his records , Oreos Verlag 2002, ISBN 3923657633
  • Basis Diskothek Jazz , Reclam, 2005 (extended new edition 2011), ISBN 3150183723
  • The original and the original - techniques of cultural appropriation using the example of Oriental Jazz , in: Wolfram Knauer (Ed.) Encounters - The World meets Jazz , Darmstadt Contributions to Jazz Research, Volume 10, Wolke Verlag 2008
  • Portrait saxophone: culture, practice, repertoire, interpreters , Bärenreiter Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3-7618-1840-4
  • 111 reasons to love jazz: A declaration of love , Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, 2019, ISBN 978-3-86265-804-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Search Results for “ralf dombrowski” - News, reviews, features and comments from the London jazz scene and beyond. Accessed November 4, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Munich Feuilleton - Culture. Criticism. Controversy. Accessed November 4, 2019 (German).
  3. ↑ Jazz from Germany, Goethe Institute
  4. ↑ Gallery 2019 - Jazz World Photo. Retrieved November 4, 2019 (American English).
  5. ↑ Jazzzeitung 2009
  6. ↑ Neue Musikzeitung , April 25, 2013
  7. ↑ Jazzzeitung 2012/01: reviews, Ralf Dombrowski's compilation box “Dive into Jazz”. Retrieved November 4, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Michael Rüsenberg : Ralf Dombrowski 111 reasons to love jazz. In: jazzcity.de. February 10, 2020, accessed February 20, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Dombrowski, Ralf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz journalist and jazz author
DATE OF BIRTH 1965