Ulrich Gumpert

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Ulrich "Uli" Gumpert (born January 26, 1945 in Jena ) is a German jazz musician . The pianist, organist and composer developed a special style of making music.

Life

Gumpert received piano lessons from his father Willy Gumpert from 1952 to 1959. From 1961 he studied the French horn at the Liszt School of Music Weimar , and also played with the Jena Oldtimers. In 1964, he was due to insufficient achievements in Marxism-Leninism expelled . In 1966 Gumpert moved to East Berlin. Further studies took place from 1967 to 1968 at the music academy "Hanns Eisler" Berlin in the subject of piano, which he broke off again. From 1968 to 1970 he was a guest student in the subjects of theory and composition. Between 1970 and 1973 Gumpert obtained a professional musician license as a pianist at the Friedrichshain Music School .

Since 1967 the pianist has been part of the line-up of Klaus Lenz's various bands and in 1971 co-founded the jazz rock band SOK , which played an electric jazz-oriented rock. In 1973 Gumpert, who at the time was increasingly devoting himself to free jazz, co-founded the jazz formation Synopsis , whose first album Auf der Elbe swims a pink crocodile is particularly influenced by the compositions he brought in.

The Jazz Workshop Orchestra performed its adaptations of German folk songs at Jazz in the Chamber in 1972. He documented this program on LP in 1977 with the Amiga record label . With his Ulrich Gumpert Workshop Band , of which Heinz Becker , Manfred Hering , Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky , Helmut Forsthoff , Conny Bauer , Klaus Koch and Günter Sommer also belonged, a second album followed in 1979, which was also released in West Germany and also presented there has been.

In 1984 the Central Quartet emerged from Synopsis . In addition, Gumpert devoted himself increasingly to solo work since then. Together with Radu Malfatti and Tony Oxley , Gumpert played in the trio GMU.

Today, Gumpert occasionally makes music in the Ulrich Gumpert Quartet with Ben Abarbanel-Wolff , Jan Roder and Michael Griener , with whom a CD entitled “Quartets” was released on the Swiss label Intakt Records in 2007 (recently also with Jürg Wickihalder on saxophone). As an accompanist for Uschi Brüning , Manfred Krug and Leta Davis , he formed the formation Jazzin 'the Blues together with Henning Protzmann and Wolfgang Schneider . Under the name B3 Special , Gumpert (with Silke Eberhard , Jan Roder and Kay Lübke ) is once again dedicated to playing on the Hammond B3.

As a composer he created film music a. a. for the Berlin Tatort relay with Commissioner Markowitz. His interpretations of the piano works of Eric Satie are considered sensational.

In 2005 Gumpert was awarded the German Jazz Prize at the JazzFest Berlin .

Filmography

Trivia

Since Gumpert also appeared in the West during the GDR era, he was u. a. Underwent a routine check in the early 1980s. The Stasi -Staff who therefore questioned neighbors etc., Ulrich Gumpert was not a concept. From his assessment gained by interviewing the neighbors. "Often comes home late, sometimes sleeps until noon, sometimes for days on the road ..." Gumpert was classified as "unreliable" and should not leave the country. Due to the fact that the GDR Ministry of Culture had already signed contracts with organizers in the west about Gumpert's appearances, there was again an "official request", in which it turned out that Gumpert does nothing different than any other musician with out-of-town appearances . The episode apparently only became known through inquiries from the GDR Ministry of Culture and made the rounds among GDR musicians.

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SURNAME Gumpert, Ulrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gumpert, Uli (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena