Rudolf Josel

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Rudolf Josel (born January 24, 1939 in Graz ) is an Austrian trombonist who has emerged in both classical music and jazz.

Life

Josel studied piano, cello and trombone at the Graz Conservatory . At the age of eighteen he was already working as a trombonist with the Graz Philharmonic Orchestra. He also played in the Fridl Althaller Sextet and in the Serenaders II . In 1960 he founded his Josel Trio ; It won first place at the Austrian Amateur Jazz Festival in Vienna in 1962 and successfully participated in the Frankfurt Jazz Festival in the same year . Then he played with Friedrich Gulda and his Euro Jazz Orchestra .

Between 1964 and 2000 he was the first solo trombonist with the Vienna Philharmonic and the Vienna State Opera Orchestra. In 1994 he was appointed full professor for trombone at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna , where he worked until 2007. He wrote internationally recognized study works and etudes for trombone, led master classes in Japan and Israel and is an international lecturer at trombone seminars.

In addition, Josel was active as a soloist in international chamber music ensembles and has performed outside Europe in Australia, Japan and North America. He performed specially intended trombone compositions by Alfred Schnittke , Fritz Leitermeyer and other composers and also advocated contemporary and rarely played works for his instrument. In 1986 he organized the European premiere of Henry Brant's Orbits for 80 trombones and organ in the Augustinian Church in Vienna .

Numerous radio recordings and recordings document Josel's skills both as a classical musician and as a jazz soloist. He has also been with Hans Koller's Free Sound Big Band , the Slide Hampton band , with Ernst Jandl and with jazz musicians such as Teddy Ehrenreich , Fatty George , Dexter Gordon , JJ Johnson , Albert Mangelsdorff , Sonny Stitt , Bill Watrous , Phil Wilson and the New Austrian Allstars to hear. Even today he is a jazz trombonist with various formations, including a. internationally active with his quintet, Michael Starch's ensemble and the “Philharmonic Jazz Quartet”. During his stays in Salzburg for the Salzburg Festival in the 1980s and 1990s dvjH, he made great contributions to the then meager jazz scene in Salzburg and set important "alternative accents" to the official high culture. Rudi Josel made a special effort to help up-and-coming young people from Salzburg such as Robert Hutya, Robert Kainar, Gottfried Stöger, Klaus Kircher or Florian and Ferdinand Schmitzberger. The "Jazz - Club Life" in the "Hotel zum Hirschen" and later in the "Urban - Keller", at that time Salzburg 's only jazz initiative that brought top international musicians to Salzburg, benefited from Prof. Josel' s unpaid commitment. Sessions in the legendary "Mexicano - Keller" with Adi Jüstel, next to the Salzburg Festival Houses, with Rudi Wilfer, Friedrich Gulda, who showed the long nose of the "Golden Deer" from the festival, and Michael Honzak enlivened the festival summer and remained an unforgettable win Pioneer for the later highly subsidized commercial jazz festivals in Salzburg.

His son Peter is also a musician.

His brother Manfred Josel teaches jazz drums at the Graz University of Art. With the legendary Josel Trio (Rudolf Josel tb, Manfred Josel dm, Anton Bärnthaler b), he was prizewinner at various jazz festivals in Zurich, Vienna, Prague and Nuremberg. Recordings with Friedrich Gulda MPS-Villingen. 2nd prize at the international jazz competition F. Gulda in Vienna 1966. Concerts with Sonny Stitt, Dexter Gorden, Bob Berg , Herb Ellis , Randy Brecker , Johnny Griffin , Slide Hampton , Maynard Ferguson , JJ Johnson, Cannonball Adderley , Clark Terry , Ed Thigpen , Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen , Sir Charles Thompson , Harry Sweets Edison , Barney Kessel , Warren Vaché , Oscar Klein , Romano Mussolini , Jeff Clayton , George Masso etc. etc. etc.

In April 2014 Rudolf Josel celebrated his 75th birthday together with his brother Manfred (whose 70s) with two gala concerts in Vienna's Jazzland , at which Christoph Pepe Auer sax, Dejan Pečenko p and Klaus Melem b completed an outstanding quintet.

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  1. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF file; 6.59 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Josel, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian trombonist
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz