Wolf Escher

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Wolf Escher (born February 3, 1944 in Dortmund ; † end of February 2016 ) was a German jazz musician ( trumpet , arrangement , composition , orchestral direction) and music teacher .

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Escher received violin lessons from the age of eleven . In 1958 he joined the trombone choir and received private lessons on the trumpet and the cello. At the age of 16 he made his first experiences with jazz music in a Dixieland band. After finishing school and completing an apprenticeship, he studied cello and trumpet at the Dortmund Conservatory ; During this time he switched to modern jazz . He played in the Peter Heidemann quintet and was part of Ingfried Hoffmann's big band at the 1967 Cologne Jazz Festival . Then he led the Wolf Escher Quintet (with whom he also recorded an album), the Farmerland Big Band and the Farmerland Tentett. Then followed tours with Johannes Fehring and the ORF Big Band and the Munich Big Band of Dusko Goykovich . In 1972 he founded the fusion band Time in Space , which had success in domestic and international clubs. This was followed by productions with Erwin Lehn , Frank Valdor , Peter Herbolzheimer and Werner Müller . In 1975 he was one of the founders of the JugendJazzOrchester Nordrhein-Westfalen , whose management team he had been part of for more than three decades. He composed and arranged for the formation with which he toured the then Soviet Union, East Africa, North America, India, Australia and South America and recorded several albums.

Escher also composed and arranged orchestral and chamber music and wrote several music-pedagogical sheet music. Since 1973 he has worked as a teacher at the Dortmund Music School, since November 1977 as deputy head of the school. He also worked as a lecturer at the jazz courses in Remscheid and Weikersheim.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Julia Gaß: Obituary: Mourning for jazz musician Wolf Escher. Ruhr Nachrichten , March 8, 2016, accessed on April 24, 2016 .
  2. ↑ cf. Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online December 27, 2013)
  3. ^ Uta C. Schmidt, Andreas Müller and Richard Ortmann Jazz in Dortmund. Hot - Modern - Free - New Klartext, Essen 2004, pp. 148, 158
personal data
SURNAME Escher, wolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH February 2016