Wolfgang Schlueter (musician)

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Wolfgang Schlueter with his quartet in the Bessunger Knabenschule in Darmstadt on January 22, 2011

Wolfgang Schlueter (born November 12, 1933 in Berlin ; † November 12, 2018 ) was a German jazz musician. He played vibraphone and percussion and was one of the most important vibraphonists of his generation in Europe. As one of the few German jazz musicians alongside Albert Mangelsdorff , he was able to place himself in the renowned critics poll of the US specialist magazine " Down Beat ".

life and work

Schlüter, who came from a family of artists in Prenzlauer Berg , first learned the piano and accordion. He changed and studied from 1949 to 1954 at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin timpani and drums . Due to a knee injury, he had to give up his goal of becoming a classical solo timpanist and turned to mallet instruments . During his studies he first worked in Manfred Burzlaff's orchestra . From 1952 he played the vibraphone. He was confronted with the possibilities of this instrument in jazz when he saw Lionel Hampton in the Berlin Sports Palace that same year . Initially he was influenced by Lionel Hampton, later by Milt Jackson .

In 1956 the pianist Michael Naura brought him into his band, the Michael Naura Quintet, which in 1963 could not be continued as a continuous group due to Naura's illness (but occasionally revived). Since 1965 Schlüter was a member of the NDR Bigband (and the studio band as its forerunner) for more than 30 years . He also played as a soloist in the orchestras of Kurt Edelhagen , Erwin Lehn , Werner Müller , Paul Kuhn and Peter Herbolzheimer as well as with Volker Kriegel . Schlüter was a member of the first line-up of Peter Giger's Family of Percussion . Wolfgang Schlüter also played in studio recordings (vibraphone / percussion) of the James Last Band in the Polydor -Studio Hamburg-Rahlstedt in the late 1960s and in the 1970s; In 1985 he went on a tour of England with a load.

Since 1985 Schlüter was a professor at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater . Since 2007 he has given concerts in the Wolfgang Schlueter Quartet with Boris Netsvetaev , Philipp Steen and Kai Bussenius .

Although Schlüter's eyesight had deteriorated significantly at the age of 80, his musical abilities were unbroken due to daily practice. On his 80th birthday he gave a concert at the Kulturwerk am See in Norderstedt with his Wolfgang Schlüter Quartet and the NDR Bigband.

After the accidental death of his wife Karin in 2007, Schlüter lived with his new partner in his house in Henstedt-Ulzburg in Schleswig-Holstein. His daughter Nadja Hahn edited her father's memoirs, which are available under the title A One, Two, Three, Four… as a book on demand .

Wolfgang Schlüter died in November 2018 on his 85th birthday as a result of a stroke.

Prizes and awards

  • On November 3, 2001, Wolfgang Schlueter was presented with the Albert Mangelsdorff Prize , worth DM 20,000, at the JazzFest Berlin .
  • In 2013 he was awarded the Jazz Echo for his album Visionen .
  • In 2017 Schlüter received the Hamburg Jazz Prize endowed with € 10,000.

Selection discography

with Michael Naura
Recordings under your own name
  • Christoph Spendel / Wolfgang Schlueter Dualism ( MPS 1982)
  • Christoph Spendel / Wolfgang Schlueter Group September Memories (MPS 1983)
  • Swing Revival (Koala Records, with Charly Antolini , dr; Stefan von Dobrzynski , cl; Horst Mühlbradt , p; Lucas Lindholm , b; 1985)
  • Wolfgang Schlüter & NDR Bigband Good Vibration (Extra Records, with Dieter Glawischnig , according to; Rob Pronk , among others .; 1990)
  • Schlüter / Nabatov / Antolini : Swing Kings (recording from September 19, 1996 in Birdland ; ACT ; published 2001)
  • Wolfgang Schlueter Quartet Four Colors ( Skip Records , with Boris Netsvetaev, Philipp Steen and Kai Bussenius; 2007)
  • Wolfgang Schlüter Quartet & NDR Bigband Visionen (Skip Records, with Boris Netsvetaev, Philipp Steen and Kai Bussenius; 2012)
  • Wolfgang Schlueter & Boris Netsvetaev Breathing As One (Skip Records, 2016)

literature

  • Wolfgang Schlüter with Nadja Hahn A - One - Two - Three - Four… Once More! The ups and downs of a jazz musician's life Books on Demand, Norderstedt, 2013, ISBN 978-3-7322-5439-2
  • Jürgen Wölfer : Jazz in Germany. The encyclopedia. All musicians and record companies from 1920 until today. Hannibal, Höfen 2008, ISBN 978-3-85445-274-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jessica Schlage: Vibrafonist Wolfgang Schlüter has died. In: NDR . November 13, 2018, accessed November 13, 2018 .
  2. ↑ On The Tracks: Wolfgang Schlueter Traces, Paths and Conversations on Music. In: Radio Bremen . April 14, 2013, archived from the original on April 6, 2014 ; accessed on November 13, 2018 .
  3. ^ Roland Biswurm: Jazz vibraphonist Wolfgang Schlueter is 80 years old. In: BR-Klassik . November 12, 2013, archived from the original on November 13, 2013 ; accessed on November 13, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Cf. u. a .: James Last Non Stop Daning 76/2 , Non Stop Daning 77 , Sing mit 5 , Sing mit 6 , each musician information (with Wolfgang Schlüter) on the back of the cover as well as an ARD-SWR-film contribution 1968/69 about James Last in the studio; Wolfgang Schlüter can be seen at the vibraphone recording Night and Day for Non Stop Evergreens .
  5. ↑ a b c Tom R. Schulz: Wolfgang Schlueter: Swing artist on the vibraphone. In: Abendblatt.de . November 12, 2013, archived from the original on November 13, 2018 ; accessed on November 13, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Hamburg Jazz Prize 2017 goes to Wolfgang Schlüter. In: Website of the Hamburg Jazz Office. Retrieved November 13, 2018 . Heinrich Oehmen: The 83-year-old who still plays jazz every day. In: Abendblatt.de. May 31, 2017, archived from the original on November 14, 2018 ; accessed on November 13, 2018 .
  7. ^ Schlueter *, Nabatov *, Antolini * - Swing Kings. In: Discogs. Retrieved April 16, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Schlueter, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 2018