Wolfram Dix

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Wolfram Dix

Wolfram Dix (born July 24, 1957 in Leipzig ) is a German drummer and percussionist of creative jazz .

Live and act

Wolfram Dix ​​grew up in Machern and went to school there. He received drum lessons since 1970. He studied at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music and Theater in Leipzig . In 1975/76 he was a member of Manfred Schulze's ensemble . From 1977 to 1979 he belonged with Manfred Hering , Hannes Zerbe , Joe Sachse and Christoph Winckel to the group Osiris , which also appeared as guest soloists with Rudolf Dašek , Leo Wright , Toto Blanke / Charlie Mariano , Carmell Jones and Etta Cameron . He also played with the blues band Mama Basuto and in the brass band von Zerbe (1979), in the Hermann Keller / Manfred Schulze workshop orchestra (1980) and in the Johannes Bauer workshop (1981). At workshops and in concerts he gained experience with other musicians such as Tony Oxley , whose game conception had a lasting impact on him, Harry Beckett (1984) and John Tchicai (1985). In 1983 Dix led his own band Exu , since the same year he worked with the group Tett (recording with the pianist Erwin Stache, the bassist Rainer Kühn and the saxophonist René Schönherr on Kleeblatt No. 16 for Amiga ) in the field of free improvisation music ; In recent years he has also worked in the LeipJazzig Orkester and in the group percussion-trombone leipzig . He continued to work with Andy Altenfelder , Richard Galliano , Herb Geller , Nina Hagen , Nigel Kennedy , Peter Kowald , Anca Parghel , Wolfgang Schlueter , Daniel Schmahl , Jiggs Whigham and Joe Zawinul . In 1998 he released a solo album and has since given numerous solo concerts.

Since 1989 Dix has been teaching drums and rhythm at the University of Music and Theater in Leipzig, but has also led workshops elsewhere.

Discography

  • Dix - Percussion & Voice (1998)
  • Smart Metal Hornets & Dix Merged Zwiefacher ( Extraplatte 2007)
  • MONADE (Phonector 2010)
  • Ensemble Sonus Mundi Nequaquam Vacuum (anjoke 2012)
  • Smart Metal Hornets & Dix Archduke Shuffle (Ats-Records 2015)
  • Tobias Morgenstern and Wolfram Dix Hiddensounds (Buschfunk 2015)

bibliography

  • Wolfram Dix: Rise in the Fall. In: Leopold von Emden (Ed.) The Frankfurt literary pleasure garden. Cornelia Goethe Academy, Frankfurt am Main 2007
  • Wolfram Dix: The journey of the Saxon drummer - retrospectives and insights between makers , Peitz and Nanjing . Norderstedt 2010, ISBN 978-3-8391-3601-0
  • Wolfram Dix: Word and answer. In: Bettine Reichelt (ed.) God's sound in the world. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-374-02846-7
  • Wolfram Dix: Between the peaks. In: Thomas Renker (Ed.) Walled-in Twist - Biographical Stations. Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-95415-032-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfram Dix: The journey of the Saxon drummer - retrospectives and insights between makers , Peitz and Nanjing . Norderstedt 2010, ISBN 978-3-8391-3601-0 , page 10
  2. ↑ http://d-nb.info/965309398
personal data
SURNAME Dix, Wolfram
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German drummer of creative jazz
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig