Urs Blöchlinger
Urs Leo Blöchlinger (born June 4, 1954 in Wettingen ; † March 3, 1995 in Turgi ) was a Swiss jazz musician ( alto saxophone , sopranino , bass saxophone , flute ) and composer.
Live and act
Blöchlinger first learned to play guitar and trumpet as an autodidact before turning to the saxophone. He studied for a short time at the Swiss Jazz School in Bern (with Andy Scherrer , among others ), then switched to the Music Academy in Zurich, but dropped out shortly before graduation. He ran a multimedia cabaret with Christoph Baumann with the Jerry Dental Kollekdoof , founded his own trio (with Thomas Dürst, Thomas Hiestand), brought his own compositions to the Lekfek ensemble in 1982 and then founded groups such as Heilige Bimbam , Kuddeldaddeldu or Tettet . But he also played with Day & Taxi or Bermuda Viereck ; he also performed with George Gruntz , Carla Bley , Hans Koch , Werner Lüdi , Peter Schärli , John Wolf Brennan , Martin Schütz , Fredy Studer , Christy Doran and Hans Kennel .
Blöchlinger, who had been married to the pianist Valérie Portmann since 1981 , wrote multi-stylistic compositions between modern jazz and new music and also carried out experiments with improvisational concepts . He wrote theater and film music (“Paddy or the Lily on the Bottom of the Bottle”) and the 1991 musical “Der Kranich” in Bern (with a libretto by Hansjörg Schneider ), but also compositions for “ Schlieremer Chind ”. “The passionate border crosser and cheerful and melancholy avant-garde was restless between styles, between slapstick and an aesthetic of resistance.” At the age of forty, Blöchlinger committed suicide .
Discographic notes
- Jerry Dental Kollekdoof: The boiling inferno (Voxpop 1978, with Hämi Hämmerli )
- Il faut boire (with Thomas Dürst, Burhan Öçal , Hansjörg Notz; Mr Jazz 1982)
- Aesthetics as resistance ( Plainisphare 1982)
- Neurotica (with Glenn Ferris , Jürg Ammann, Thomas Dürst, Dieter Ulrich , Ruedi Häusermann, Hans Koch; hatArt 1984)
- Cadavre exquis ( Creative Works Records 1987)
- Kutteldaddeldu (with Jacques Demierre , Olivier Magnenat ; Plainisphare 1990 and 1992)
- Heilige Bimbam (with Urs Voerkel , Martin Gantenbein , Luigi Archetti, Moritz Rüdisüli, Christoph Gantert; Karbon 1994)
- "INITIALS" (with John Wolf Brennan , Peter Schärli , Creative Works Records 2005)
- Urs Blochlinger Revisited: Harry Doesn't Mind ( Leo Records , 2020)
Lexigraphic entries
- Tom Gsteiger: Blöchlinger, Urs. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Bruno Spoerri : Biographical Lexicon of Swiss Jazz.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Historical Lexicon of Switzerland
Web links
- Discography
- Urs Blöchlinger, with Dieter Ulrich and Christoph Baumann SRF 2, Jazz Collection, July 27, 2013
- Publications by and about Urs Blöchlinger in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Blöchlinger, Urs |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Blöchlinger, Urs Leo (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th June 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wettingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 3, 1995 |
| Place of death | Turgi |