Johannes "Hannes" Bauer (22 July 1954 – 6 May 2016) was a German
trombonist
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of improvised music and
free jazz
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. He was the brother of the trombonist
Conny Bauer
Konrad "Conny" Bauer (born 4 July 1943) is a German free jazz trombonist. He is the brother of the trombonist Johannes Bauer.
As a student at senior high school in Sonneberg between 1957 and 1961, he was enthusiastic about modern music and danc ...
.
He was born in
Halle. From 1979 onwards, he worked as a freelance musician in Berlin.
Among others, he worked with the following groups: the Manfred Schulze ''Wind Quintet'','' Doppelmoppel'' (with Conny Bauer, Uwe Kropinski, and Helmut "Joe" Sachse),'' Slawterhaus'' (with Jon Rose, Peter Hollinger, and Dietmar Diesner), ''Futch'' (with
Thomas Lehn
Thomas Lehn (born 1958 in Fröndenberg) is a German piano and synthesizer player active in free improvisation and contemporary music.
Lehn has recorded with Marcus Schmickler, Keith Rowe, John Butcher, Phil Minton, Phil Durrant, Radu Malfatt ...
and
Jon Rose
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),
Ken Vandermark
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A fixture on the Chicago-area music scene since the 1990s, Vandermark has earned wide critical praise for his playing and his multilayered composi ...
''Territory Band'', and the
Peter Brötzmann
Peter Brötzmann (born 6 March 1941) is a German saxophonist and clarinetist.
Biography Early life
Brötzmann was born in Remscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He studied painting in Wuppertal and was involved with the Fluxus movement ...
Tentet.
Bauer died on 6 May 2016 at the age of 61.
References
External links
homepage Hannes Bauer
1954 births
2016 deaths
Free jazz trombonists
German jazz trombonists
Male trombonists
People from Halle (Saale)
German male jazz musicians
Globe Unity Orchestra members
Intakt Records artists
FMP/Free Music Production artists
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