Wollie Kaiser

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Wollie Kaiser at the Unterfahrt jazz club (Munich 2012)

Wollie Kaiser (born August 9, 1950 in Königswinter ) is a German woodwind player (piccolo, alto and bass flute, soprano, tenor and bass saxophone, bass clarinet, double bass clarinet) of modern creative jazz and a band leader.

Live and act

Wollie Kaiser first became known as a trio with Fritz Wittek and Dieter Manderscheid . In 1981 he initiated the Cologne Saxophone Mafia , in which he is still active today. Since 1986 he has played in a duo with Georg Ruby ; the joint record Ruby Domesticus Vulgaris was recognized in the Cadence Poll in 1987 as the best foreign production of the year. Under the name Wollie Kaiser Timeghost , Kaiser has been realizing various projects with changing line- ups since 1993, in which, among other things, he deals with the songs and sounds of rock music .

He appears as a duo with Ulla Oster . He also worked with Klaus König , Peter Herborn , Manfred Bründl , Gabriele Hasler , Ekkehard Jost , Underkarl , the Franck Band , Gary Thomas , Mark Feldman , Jürgen Wuchner , Janusz Stefański , Harry Beckett , Christof Thewes and the Liquid Penguin Ensemble . He is also a member of the bass saxophone quartet Deep Schrott, founded in 2008, with Andreas Kaling , Jan Klare and Dirk Raulf .

Kaiser has been a lecturer at the Folkwang School in Essen since 1989 ; he also teaches at the Saar University of Music . He lives in Saarbrücken .

He has currently worked on 60 records and CDs.

Lexigraphic entries

Web links

Commons : Wollie Kaiser  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see the imprint of his website
  2. ↑ http://www.wollie-kaiser.de. Retrieved November 2, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Kaiser, Wollie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German woodwinds (piccolo, alto and bass flute, soprano, tenor and bass saxophone, bass clarinet, double bass clarinet) of modern creative jazz and bandleader
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigswinter