Urs Leimgruber

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Urs Leimgruber at the concert with Duo Pancake 2014 in Club W71

Urs Leimgruber (born January 1, 1952 in Lucerne ) is a Swiss saxophonist . He lived in Paris from 1988 to 2005 , and has since returned to his hometown of Lucerne. His areas of activity are improvisation , jazz and new music .

Act

In 1972 he founded the Lucerne rock jazz quartet OM with guitarist Christy Doran , drummer Fredy Studer and double bass player Bobby Burri , which toured successfully in Switzerland and Germany for almost a decade with "Electricjazz-Freemusic". He then played in the quartet Reflexionen with Don Friedman , Burri and Joël Allouche until 1987 and in a duo with John Wolf Brennan until 1989 . He forms the Quartet Noir with Joëlle Léandre on double bass , Marilyn Crispell on piano and Fritz Hauser on drums . The collaboration with Fritz Hauser in the duo game is publicly documented by two audio data carriers recorded in the 1990s. Leimgruber updated this musical-instrumental configuration in jazz, which goes back to John Coltrane / Rashied Ali since the second half of the 20th century, in the 2010s with both the experienced Roger Turner and the younger Axel Huber. The improvisation quartet ember also shows Leimgruber interacting with central actors of the fourth generation of contemporary improvised music such as Oliver Schwerdt , Alexander Schubert and Christian Lillinger . A particularly long and intensive collaboration connects him in the trio with Barre Phillips and Jacques Demierre , Leimgruber's artistic profile of saxophone playing is evident in his continued accentuation of unaccompanied solo playing and assigns him a special place in the line of tradition, from Coltrane to Evan Parker extends to the present.

In 2003 he was awarded the Art and Culture Prize of the City of Lucerne .

Works

Published audio media (selection)

  • Statement of an Antirider (Hat Hut: 6013, 1988)
  • Unequal (Hat Hut: 6049, 1990)
  • L'énigmatique (Hat hat: 6091, 1991)
  • Goletter (Unit: 4050, 1992)
  • Duho with Fritz Hauser (Unit: 4062, 1993)
  • Lines (Hat Hut: 6149, 1994)
  • Behind the Night (B&W: 049, 1994)
  • No Try No Fail (Hat Hut: 509, 1996)
  • Leimgruber Live Hauser with Fritz Hauser ( Plainisphare , 1998)
  • Quartet Noir (victo: 067, 1999)
  • Blue Log (For4Ears: CD 1137, 2000)
  • Screen (cod: 005, 2000)
  • After the voice Felix Philipp Ingold , speaker; Urs Leimgruber, saxophone (cod: 006, 2000)
  • Wing Vane (victo: 079, 2001)
  • Out of Sound ( Leo Records : LR 337, 2002)
  • The Difference between a Fish ( Potlatch : P302, 2003)
  • e_a.sonata.02 with the ARTE Quartet (For4Ears: CD 1447, 2003)
  • Oullh d'baham with Oliver Schwerdt , Alexander Schubert , Christian Lillinger (Euphorium: EUPH 010, 2006)
  • 13 Pieces For Saxophone Solo (LEO: 498, 2006)
  • Twine with Evan Parker (Clean Feed: CF 194, 2010)
  • Love Letters to the President with Hans Koch , Omri Ziegele (Intakt: 154, 2008)
  • Albeit with Barre Phillips, Jacques Demierre (Jazzwerkstatt: 74, 2008)
  • Aurona Arona with Oliver Schwerdt, Alexander Schubert, Christian Lillinger (Creative Sources: CS 167, 2009)
  • Chicago Solo Solo (LEO: 570, 2009)
  • The Pancake Tour with Roger Turner (Relative Pitch: RPR 007, 2012)
  • Lightnings with Axel Huber (Wide Ear: WER 018, 2015)
  • Urs Leimgruber / Andreas Willers / Alvin Curran / Fabrizio Spera : Rome-ing ( Leo Records , 2019)

Published audio-video data carriers (selection)

  • Euphorium Live Scenes 2006 with Oliver Schwerdt, Alexander Schubert, Christian Lillinger (Euphorium: EUPH 017, 2006)

literature

  • Oliver Schwerdt: Urs Leimgruber 2009: Chicago Solo. The saxophonist and the art of multiple-fractal design in Urs Leimgruber: Chicago Solo . Leo Records, 2010

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schwerdt, Oliver: Baby Summer XXL. EUPHORIUM Books, Leipzig 2013 pp. 286–307
personal data
SURNAME Leimgruber, Urs
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss jazz and improvisation musician
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Lucerne