Rudolf Roth (musician)
Rudolf "Rudi" Roth (born February 5, 1951 in Haßloch ) is a German jazz musician ( drums , percussion ).
Live and act
Roth played from 1969 as a drummer in the music collective Inningen , then in the band Bhakti Jazz . Between 1973 and 1976 he studied drums and rhythm at the Swiss Jazz School in Bern with Billy Brooks . From 1978 to 1982 he worked as an actor at the Meta-Theater Moosach and toured Europe and North America with the play "Flechtungen - der Fall Parzival". From 1979 he belonged to Götz Tangerding's band for many years . He also worked with Chris Beier's Overtone Orchestra , the Franz Dannerbauer Music Liberation Unit and the Thomas Fink Trio feat. Sandy Lomax, Vincent Herring . At the Munich Piano Summer 1985 he performed with the classical pianists Isaac Steiner and Gary Todd . He also worked with Chico Freeman and since 1980 with Rainer Glas , with whom he can be heard on many albums; he also belonged to the rhythm section of Tony Lakatos / Leszek Zadlo / Albert Mangelsdorff . He developed his solo program Drum for Your Life , with which he has been touring since 1992, and Lyric Meets Percussion. Together with the pianist Andy Lutter, he led a quartet and was involved in crossover projects with tap dancers, such as that of the Tapstick group ( tap and stick dance ) with Sam Weber.
Since 1989 he has also been teaching rhythm and jazz drums; he is the author of three rhythm schools.
Discographic notes
- Thomas Fink, Rainer Glas, Rudi Roth & Beate Krause A Waltz for Bill (1985)
- Götz Tangerding / Rudolf Roth Nasrudins Orchestra (1985)
- G. Tangerding, Ch. Stock , R. Roth featuring KH Miklin Porque no (1987)
Lexical entry
- Jürgen Wölfer : Jazz in Germany. The encyclopedia. All musicians and record companies from 1920 until today. Hannibal, Höfen 2008, ISBN 978-3-85445-274-4 .
Web links
- Drum for your life
- Rudolf Roth at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Roth, Rudolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Roth, Rudi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz musician (drums, percussion) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th February 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hassloch |