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Reimer von Essen (* 31 October 1940 in Hamburg ) is a jazz - clarinet and - bandleader known by the Frankfurt Barrelhouse Jazz Band .

Live and act

Von Essen (clarinet, alto saxophone, piano, arrangements, composition) first spent his school days in Shanghai , later in Plön and from 1949 in Frankfurt am Main . After graduating from high school in 1958, he studied German, English and music and graduated in 1966 in Frankfurt. From 1966 to 1991 he taught as a teacher at the Albert Schweitzer School in Frankfurt, where he also composed two school operas that began his career as a professional musician. He got his first jazz contacts through records from friends and then took clarinet lessons with J. Englert (1954–1956) and jazz theory with Alfons M. Dauer .

1957 followed first appearances with the Beale Street Seven. In 1958 he founded the Blue Washboard Five (a recording on a festival LP). In 1959 Reimer moved from Essen to the Smokehaus jazz band and in 1962 to the Barrelhouse jazz band , which he became director. With the Barrelhouse Jazz Band he tours over 50 countries around the world (as of 2011: 56 countries).

  • 1974 2nd prize of the europ. Bands in Nice
  • 1977 German Record Prize
  • 1978 Northsea Festival The Hague
  • 1987 Quarterly Prize of the German Record Critics
  • Since 1983 annual Barrelhouse Jazz Party - Alte Oper Frankfurt
  • 1998 Invitation to the Great Traditional Jazz Festival in Connecticut
  • 1996 to 2002 annual participation in the most important festival of traditional jazz at the time, JazzAscona , also with trio and New Orleans Four.
  • 2003 Various honors and articles in leading newspapers on the 50th anniversary of the Barrelhouse Jazzband and a multimedia package covering 50 years of the Barrelhouse Jazzband
  • 2007 50th personal stage anniversary and 50th LP / CD recording

The Barrelhouse Jazzband has recorded over 30 LPs and CDs so far, one of which is published in New Orleans. From 1978, von Essen recorded with Klaus Pehl's Ragtime Society (2 LPs) and with the Jazz Classics (2 LPs). In 1982 he co-founded the Art Hodes International Trio (1 LP, 2 CDs, tapes), which has been continued as the "International Trio" since Hodes' death in 1992, initially with Ralph Sutton (3 CDs) and after his death with Christian Azzi (3 CDs) and David Boeddinghaus (1 CD). Reimer von Essen also recorded as a soloist (3 LPs / CDs with Stomp Off Records, an American company, and 7 CDs in Germany with international line-ups), as director of The New Orleans Four Plus One (2 CDs) and with Reimer from food trio. He is co-founder of the Original Union Brassband and the Big Band Memories. These groups have existed and are active for decades.

In 1965 he was co-founder of the GFN and co-organizer of the Hot Jazz Festival until 1970. Occasionally he taught at the Goethe Institute and at the Summer University of Alpbach. He is the author and co-author of various jazz publications. From 1990 he was a board member of the Hessian Jazz Academy until it was dissolved in 2000, and since 1992 he has been the artistic director of the Plön Jazz Days.

From 1995 to 2001 he was director of the annual Ascona Hot Jazz Workshop (students from RvE play in several bands in Germany), 2003 and 2006 lecturer at the Darmstadt “Jazz Conceptions”, and from 2006 lecturer at the Classic Jazz Workshop.

Reimer von Essen has long been considered an important figure in traditional jazz in Germany and has been featured on the radio, TV, newspapers, magazines and books. His children Lil von Essen and Oliver von Essen are also musicians. In 2011 he received the Hessian Jazz Prize.

honors and awards

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hessian Jazz Prize for Reimer von Essen . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung of June 24, 2011, p. B5

Fonts

  • History of Jazz in Frankfurt (until 1972) in Volume 5 "Jazz Research", Graz 1973
  • New Orleans Jazz , in Joachim Ernst Berendt (Ed.) The Story of Jazz. From New Orleans to rock jazz. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1975, 1991
  • Article performance practice of traditional jazz, in: Wolfgang Sandner (editor) Jazz , Handbook of Music in the 20th Century, Vol. 9, Laaber Verlag, 2005

literature

  • Wolfgang Sandner: An antiquarian of jazz history: Reimer von Essen , in: Ders., Jazz in Frankfurt. 1990, pp. 43–45 (with discography)

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personal data
SURNAME Food, rhymers of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz clarinetist and bandleader
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg