Thomas Heberer (musician)

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Thomas Heberer at the Unterfahrt jazz club (Munich 2010)

Thomas Heberer (* 24. September 1965 in Schleswig ) is a German jazz - trumpet , flugelhorn player and keyboardist ( electronic instruments , sampling ) of the Creative Jazz .

Career and work

Heberer started playing the trumpet when he was eleven. Until 1984 he studied with Manfred Schoof at the Cologne University of Music . He caused a sensation in 1990 with the release of the album Chicago Breakdown - The Music of Jelly Roll Morton , which the trumpeter recorded with bassist Dieter Manderscheid . They interpreted the classical repertoire of Chicago jazz in an unusual, "deconstructive" way, according to Richard Cook and Brian Morton, as did the title track Chicago Breakdown , the King Porter Stomp and the Buddy Bolden Blues . With Manderscheid, the saxophonist Dirk Raulf and the drummer Fritz Wittek , he formed the formation "Tome XX" in the early 1990s. Heberer also worked with Aki Takase , the European Trumpet Summit , Gerd Dudek , Attila Zoller , Joachim Kühn , Evan Parker , David Moss , Frank Schulte and Tomasz Stańko .

Heberer was also a member of the Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra and also worked in the accompanying band of the Harald Schmidt Show . He plays since the early 1990s in the ICP Orchestra of Misha Mengelberg . Furthermore, the trumpeter took part in 1990 on the production of "The Wild Horses of the Poor People" by Norbert Stein's Pata Orchester , in 1993 on Alexander von Schlippenbach's album "The Morlocks" ( FMP ), and in 1996 on Misha Mengelberg's The Root of the Problem ( hatOLOGY ). In the same year he appeared on the 20th Anniversary Tour "with the European Jazz Ensemble with Schoof, Conrad Bauer , Charlie Mariano , Joachim Kühn, among others. In 2004 Heberer founded the Lip Lab formation with tuba player Carl Ludwig Hübsch and drummer Christian Thomé ; in 2005 he participated in the recording of Norbert Stein Pata generator with ( "code Carnival") and in 2007 he was a member of the James Choice Orchestra . His solo music projects with loop -Effekten operate under the name sloops! .

As on his first album The Heroic Millespede , which is still strongly reminiscent of Mark Isham's music , Heberer also experimented with electronic sounds. In the 1990s, the Poise label, which he runs together with Dirk Raulf and Frank Schulte, produced the album Kill Yr Darlins with electronic instruments. In order to distinguish these activities from his jazz projects, Heberer uses the pseudonym "TOM". The choreographer Pina Bausch used the music from TOM in her performances in her dance theater in Wuppertal , as in For the Children of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (2002) and Ten Chi (2004).

Honourings and prices

Heberer was awarded the German Record Critics' Prize , the SWF Jazz Prize and the Jazz Art Prize , among others .

Discography

  • The Heroic Millepede (ITM, 1988) with Frank Köllges
  • Tome XX - Natura Morta ( JazzHausMusik , 1988)
  • Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra ( ECM , 1989)
  • Heberer / Manderscheid Chicago Breakdown (JazzHausMusik, 1990)
  • Tome XX - The Red Snapper (Jazz House Music, 1991)
  • Tome XX - Third Degree (Jazz House Music, 1993)
  • Sotto in Su - Vanitas featuring Sussan Deyhim (Poise, 1994)
  • Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra - Live in Japan (DIW, 1996)
  • Tome XX - She Could Do Nothing by Halves (JazzHausMusik, 1997)
  • ICP Orchestra - Jubilee Varia (hatOLOGY, 1997)
  • ICP Orchestra - Oh! My Dog (ICP, 2001)
  • SSH plays sssh - dedicated to the vision of MD & Sun Ra, Trio with Frank Schulte and Norbert Scholly , (Konnex, 2003)
  • Heberer / Manderscheid Wanderlust (JazzHausMusik, 2006)
  • Clarino (No Business, 2011)
  • Thomas Heberer / Yoni Kretzmer / Christian Weber : Big (OutNow Recordings, 2018)

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Individual references, comments

  1. ↑ Cook & Morton rated the album in the second edition of The Penguin Guide to Jazz from 1994 with the highest rating of four stars and the recommendation "highly recommended". They mistakenly call Thomas Heberer “Christoph” (!) In this issue.
  2. ↑ "the music (...) occasionally slips into the cerebral mood-music of which Mark Isham is the (...) exponent", so Cook & Morton in their review in 1994.
  3. ↑ under which the two CDs Stella and Mouth were released
personal data
SURNAME Heberer, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz trumpeter
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Schleswig