Arne Jansen (born 26 November 1975) is a German

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guitarist.

Biography

As a teenager Jansen picked up the guitar, inspired by Jimi Hendrix and the Dire Straits. The great storytellers of pop, such as Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell also belonged to his early sources of inspiration just like the Beatles and Pink Floyd, who he discovered in his parents' record collection. At the age of 17 he discovered the music of Pat Metheny and John Scofield, which opened up new horizons for him. Then Jansen studied jazz guitar at the

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(1996-2001), with Jeanfrancois Prins, David Friedman, , and . He has also studied guitar with

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, John Abercrombie,

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, and

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. From 1998-2000 Mhe was a member of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Germany, conducted by Peter Herbolzheimer, and was on concert tours with numerous ensembles through the US, Japan, Argentina, Scandinavia, Turkey, Russia, the Ukraine and south-east Europe. Fellow artists and ensembles include the band Naked Raven, musicians

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, Jocelyn B. Smith and

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, in addition to the DanGer (Danish-German Jazzsextett), Fitzwilliam String Quartet, and the Film Orchestra Babelsberg. Collaborative work as guitarist with Michael Thalheimer & Bert Wrede for the production of Shakespeare's "As You Like It" at the German Theatre Berlin, 2008. With the Arne Jansen Trio he gave concerts at the Jazzfest Berlin 2008, Enjoy Jazz 2008, Jazz Baltica 2009, Jazzahead-German Jazz Meeting 2010, Jazz Utsav-Festival Delhi, India 2014, X-Jazz Festival Berlin 2015, Jazz Baltica 2015, Africa-Tour 2017 (Angola, Mozambique, Senegal), Collaboration with "Orchestra Baobab" (Senegal). Continuous work with his trio, Katja Riemann, Jazzanova, Nils Wülker Group, and Matthias Schweighöfer.

Honors

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...

: Prize-winner at the Berlin Senate's Studio-Competition with the Arne Jansen Trio *

2014 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...

: Winner of

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award for the album ''The Sleep of Reason – Ode to Goya'', with the Arne Jansen Trio *

2017 File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a ser ...

: Winner of Echo Jazz award for the album ''Nine Firmaments'', with the Arne Jansen Trio

Discography

Solo albums

2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ...

: ''My Tree'' (Traumton Records), with Arne Jansen Trio *

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...

: ''Younger Than That Now'' (Traumton Records), with Arne Jansen Trio *

2013 File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fact ...

: ''The Sleep of Reason – Ode to Goya'' ( ACT ) (awarded

) *

2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ...

: ''Nine Firmaments'' (Traumton Records), with Arne Jansen Trio (awarded Echo Jazz)

Collaborations

; With Firomanum (Arne Jansen,

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, Niels Klein, Nils Tegen) * 2002: ''New Old Tendency'' (SATRip) * 2006: ''Frames'' (Traumton Records) ; With BuJazzO *

1987 File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, k ...

: ''On Tour'' (Mons Records), with Bundesjugendjazzorchester *

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...

: ''Das Jugendjazzorchester Der Bundesrepublik Deutschland'' (Gerling), with

Peter Herbolzheimer Peter Alexandru Herbolzheimer (31 December 1935 – 27 March 2010) was a Romanian-German jazz trombonist and bandleader. Biography Herbolzheimer was born to a Romanian mother and a German father in Bucharest, Romania. His family emigrated in 1 ...

; The New Cool Trio (

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, Sebastian Studnitzky, Arne Jansen) * 2021: ''The New Cool'' ( ACT)

References

External links

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Arne Jansen Trio - Live at A-Trane - Jazzfest Berlin
on

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Arne Jansen Trio - Nine Firmaments (EPK - New Album, October 2016)
on YouTube {{DEFAULTSORT:Jansen, Arne 1975 births Living people Musicians from Kiel German jazz composers Male jazz composers German jazz guitarists German male guitarists 21st-century guitarists 21st-century German male musicians