Rue Protzer

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Rue Protzer (* 1966 in Stuttgart as Rüdiger Protzer ) is a German jazz guitarist and composer ; he heads the Rue de Paris group .

Live and act

Protzer grew up in Nuremberg , where he won his first composition competition when he was 15. After graduating from high school, he initially worked as a studio musician. From 1987 to 1994 he studied classical guitar, composition and conducting at the Nuremberg Conservatory (now the Nuremberg University of Music ). After studying with Pat Metheny , Joe Beck , Gene Bertoncini and Peter O'Mara , he turned entirely to jazz.

Protzer's debut album with Rue de Paris was released by Sony Classical in 2005 under the title Quiet Motion and received a very positive response from specialist reviews. Other members of the group were Ack van Rooyen , Adam Nussbaum , Thomas Rückert and John Goldsby . The second Rue de Paris album entitled New York Slow (with Randy Brecker and Lee Konitz among others ) was released in 2007 by Sony Classical. In 2009 the group finally released Trois, a third album with the regular line-up Protzer, Nussbaum, Rückert and bassist Marc Johnson . In addition, the singer Cécile Verny and the trumpeter Julian Wasserfuhr take part on some tracks . The specialist magazine Stereoplay chose the album Trois as number three of the ten best jazz CDs of this year.

In 2010 he performed his composition Xanivia with the Metropole Orkest . In 2012 the world premiere of The Pirt Trip for orchestra and guitar took place in the Nuremberg Tafelhalle .

For the 2013 album One Note Story , Protzer used "a kind of all-star band of young German jazz". For the Nuremberg city newspaper Plärrer, the album marks “an elegant but decisive turnaround to an eminently rhythmic jazz language” in which many pieces are based on odd meters. The stylistic change is underlined by the use of a Fender Stratocaster , whose specific sound "dominates" the album; According to Protzer, she played a decisive role in the conception of the album: “The effect of a theme always depends on the sound of the instrument. So it makes sense to know exactly which instrument you are composing for. "

In 2017, Rue Protzer wrote the children's electric guitar school "Jimmy! The guitar boss", illustrated by the graphic artist Selina Peterson , of which three volumes have so far been published by Dux.

Fonts

  • 2017: Jimmy! the guitar chief band 1. Electric guitar textbook for children. Dux publishing house.
  • 2017: Jimmy! the guitar chief band 2. Electric guitar textbook for children. Dux publishing house.
  • 2017: Jimmy! The guitar boss - Christmas carols. Electric guitar textbook for children. Dux publishing house.

Discographic notes

  • Rue de Paris - Quiet Motion (Sony Classical / Sony BMG) with Adam Nussbaum, John Goldsby, Thomas Rückert, Ack van Rooyen (2005)
  • Rue de Paris - New York Slow (Sony Classical / Sony BMG) with Randy Brecker, Lee Konitz, Adam Nussbaum, Jay Anderson , Thomas Rückert (2007)
  • Rue de Paris - Trois (Intuition) with Adam Nussbaum, Thomas Rückert, Marc Johnson, Cecile Verny, Julian Wasserfuhr (2009)
  • Rue Protzer - One Note Story (Intuition) with Patrick Scales , Sebastian Studnitzky , Lutz Häfner , Jesse Milliner , Jürgen Neudert , Christian Lettner (2013)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jazzthetik , Edition 255, 11/12 2013, p. 74 - Review by Rolf Thomas
  2. ↑ Plärrer No. 11, November 2013, review by Reinhold Horn
  3. ↑ Uli Lemke Stratman Jazzthing 101, November 2013, p. 29.
  4. ↑ https://gitarren-chef.de
personal data
SURNAME Showers, Rue
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Protzer, Rüdiger (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz guitarist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart