Wolfgang Dauner

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Wolfgang Dauner with the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble , November 1992

Wolfgang Dauner (born December 30, 1935 in Stuttgart ; † January 10, 2020 there ) was a German keyboardist , jazz pianist and film composer .

Life

Wolfgang Dauner had piano lessons as a child and learned to play the trumpet at an early age. As a jazz musician, he was largely self-taught . He completed an apprenticeship as a machine fitter. He had his first musical engagements as a trumpeter in bathing tours by Marika Rökk , Zarah Leander and Lale Andersen . In 1958 he briefly studied trumpet and composition at the Stuttgart University of Music . In the 1960s Dauner, now at the piano, accompanied important North American jazz musicians (e.g. Benny Bailey , Leo Wright or Robin Kenyatta ).

After recording with Joki Freund and in a studio trio with Kurt Bong , among others , he founded the Wolfgang Dauner Trio in 1963 with bassist Eberhard Weber and drummer Fred Braceful . Dauner was among the long-term winners in European polls and was present at all important festivals.

In addition to the musical quality, Dauner impressed his audience. Sometimes also with bizarre happenings . For example, drummer Braceful played naked during one of the concerts or had Dauner set fire to a grand piano at the end of a parody of contemporary music. From the trio, supported by the guitarist Siegfried Schwab, the Wolfgang Dauner Group emerged and in 1971 the band Et Cetera , in which the musicians - Dauner also on the Moog synthesizer  - explored the transitions between free and rock jazz. For the LP Knirsch from 1972 Larry Coryell and Jon Hiseman worked with Et Cetera .

In 1969 Dauner became head of the Radio Jazz Group Stuttgart for 15 years , which produced radio recordings with Terje Rypdal , Zbigniew Seifert , Jean-Luc Ponty and Chick Corea , among others . Since the 1970s he has also worked on television programs for children and young people, such as the Sendung mit der Maus , Päng and the 1974 series Glotzmusik , “a wonderfully funny and poetic introduction to music that gave him the title of 'Mozart's Children's Music'. has entered “(quote from jazzpages ). He also composed for numerous other film, television and radio play productions.

From 1969 Dauner was one of the German All Stars , who presented jazz from Germany primarily on international stages. Besides him, u. a. Albert Mangelsdorff , Emil Mangelsdorff , Gerd Dudek , Günter Lenz , Heinz Sauer , Manfred Schoof , Rolf Kühn and other musicians. From the ranks of the All Stars and von Dauner's previous formations, a number of other formations emerged.

In 1975 Dauner founded the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble with other European jazz musicians such as Barbara Thompson , Ian Carr , Jon Hiseman , Volker Kriegel , Albert Mangelsdorff, Charlie Mariano , Ack van Rooyen and Eberhard Weber . His other formations included the all-star group German Jazz Masters , in other projects he appeared with other jazz greats such as Charly Antolini , Joki Freund and Pierre Cavalli .

Dauner is considered to be the “discoverer” of the musician and singer Anne Haigis . In 1981 he produced Haigis' critically acclaimed debut album For here where the life is ; the two were also a couple privately in the early 1980s. On her 1997 record, Dancing in the fire , Anne Haigis dedicated the play Um Dich noch zu bewahrn (written by Diether Dehm and Edo Zanki ) to her relationship with Dauner .

Since 1986 Dauner has repeatedly been producer and musical director for Konstantin Wecker . Together with Albert Mangelsdorff, he was on the artistic advisory board of the Union of German Jazz Musicians .

Dauner was married to the costume designer Randi Bubat, who was also his manager.

His son Florian Dauner was first heard as a drummer in 1987 together with his father on an album by the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble . He has been part of the Fantastischen Vier live band for a long time . In 2014 and 2016, father and son released albums together.

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Dauner was considered a creative keyboardist and composer who worked across borders. With him there was no separation between serious and popular music, between the new and the old world. His influences included Bill Evans , Lennie Tristano , John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins .

While his early recordings with the Wolfgang Dauner Trio are still in the tradition of classical piano trios, towards the end of the 1960s he opened up to influences from fusion and progressive rock , as evidenced by the guitar-heavy albums by Et Cetera and other projects of the time. At the same time he expanded his spectrum to include symphonic poems . In 1968 his “Psalmus Spei” was written for church choir and jazz ensemble. His jazz opera “Der Urschrei” (for symphony orchestra, soprano, jazz quartet and quadrophony) was premiered in 1976 at the Berlin Jazz Festival. “When in Trouble Travel”, a symphonic poem for orchestra and soloists, was written in 1992. Since the 1980s, Dauner has also increasingly devoted himself to solo compositions for piano.

Dauner has written film music for many television productions; The new setting of Friedrich Murnau's “Faust” and the music for Eugène Ionesco's “La Vase” and Harold Pinter's “Romeo and Juliet” are considered outstanding productions .

Prizes and awards

Dauner received the Great German Record Award in 1979 for his solo album "Changes". In 1997 he was awarded the Medal of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg and in 2005 the Federal Cross of Merit , 1st class . In 2003 he was honored with the " German Jazz Trophy - A Life for Jazz" and in 2006 with the City of Stuttgart's Citizens' Medal . In 2016 Dauner was honored as "one of the most versatile jazz pianists and keyboardists of our time" with a special prize from the Baden-Württemberg Jazz Prize for his life's work and a winners' concert in Stuttgart. Also in 2016 he was awarded the Staufer Medal of the State of Baden-Württemberg.

Discography (excerpt)

  • 1964 Dream Talk ( CBS , with Eberhard Weber and Fred Braceful)
  • 1967 Free Action ( MPS ), with Weber, Braceful, Jean-Luc Ponty (viol), Gerd Dudek (ts), Jürgen Karg (ce) and Mani Neumaier (dr)
  • 1969 Rischkas Soul (Global Records; re-released 1974 as This Is Wolfgang Dauner on Brain , with Sigi Schwab, Eberhard Weber, Fred Braceful, Roland Wittich )
  • 1970 Output ( ECM , with Eberhard Weber and Fred Braceful)
  • 1970 Et Cetera - Et Cetera (Global Records, with Sigi Schwab , Eberhard Weber, Fred Braceful, Roland Wittich)
  • 1970 MUSIC ZOUNDS - MPS-15270 - w.dauner / piano + e.weber/bass + r.wittich / drums [RECORDED VILLINGEN FEBR-1970].
  • 1972 Et Cetera - Knirsch (MPS / BASF) - with Larry Coryell + Günter Lenz + Jon Hiseman + Fred Braceful + Richard Ketteler
  • 1973 Et Cetera - Live (MPS, with Jürgen Schmidt-Oehm (viol, fl), Matthias Thurow (b), Fred Bracefull, Lala Kovacev )
  • 1974 Hans Koller / Wolfgang Dauner Kunstkopfindianer (MPS), with Zbigniew Seifert , Adelhard Roidinger , Janusz Stefański
  • 1976 Free Sound and Super Brass (with Hans Koller)
  • 1978 Changes ( Mood , solo)
  • 1983 Two is Company (with Albert Mangelsdorff)
  • 1984 Solo Piano (Mood)
  • 1988 timelines (mood, solo)
  • 1989 Jazz for string quartet (with Modern String Quartet )
  • 1994 Solo Piano 2 (solo)
  • 2010 Tribute to the Past (solo)
  • 2014 Dauner // Dauner (Connector Records, with Florian Dauner )

literature

Film / video albums

  • Dauner Forever! Wolfgang Dauner jazz musician & composer, 2010, 52 min., A film by Jean Christophe Blavier, production: moving-angel GmbH, in cooperation with SWR First broadcast: December 28, 2010

Web links

Commons : Wolfgang Dauner  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary. Stuttgarter Zeitung, January 10, 2020, accessed on January 10, 2020 .
  2. ↑ 1971
  3. ^ Biography of Anne Haigis , accessed February 4, 2020.
  4. ↑ Dancing in the fire at Discogs
  5. ↑ zeit.de: I have the primal scream in me.
  6. ↑ State Jazz Prize Baden-Württemberg: “Special Prize for Lifetime Achievement” goes to Wolfgang Dauner
  7. ^ Staufer Medal for Wolfgang Dauner Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg, January 4, 2016, accessed on January 5, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Dauner, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German keyboard player, jazz pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 2020
Place of death Stuttgart