Peter Brötzmann (born 6 March 1941)
is a German
saxophonist
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and
clarinetist
This article lists notable musicians who have played the clarinet.
Classical clarinetists
* Laver Bariu
* Ernest Ačkun
* Luís Afonso
* Cristiano Alves
* Michel Arrignon
* Dimitri Ashkenazy
* Kinan Azmeh
* Alexander Bader
* Carl Baerma ...
.
Biography
Early life
Brötzmann was born in
Remscheid
Remscheid () is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is, after Wuppertal and Solingen, the third-largest municipality in Bergisches Land, being located on the northern edge of the region, on the south side of the Ruhr area.
Remscheid h ...
,
North Rhine-Westphalia
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, Germany.
He studied painting in
Wuppertal
Wuppertal (; "''Wupper Dale''") is, with a population of approximately 355,000, the seventh-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia as well as the 17th-largest city of Germany. It was founded in 1929 by the merger of the cities and tow ...
and was involved with the
Fluxus
Fluxus was an international, interdisciplinary community of artists, composers, designers and poets during the 1960s and 1970s who engaged in experimental art performances which emphasized the artistic process over the finished product. Fluxus ...
movement
but grew dissatisfied with art galleries and exhibitions. He experienced his first jazz concert when he saw American jazz musician
Sidney Bechet
Sidney Bechet (May 14, 1897 – May 14, 1959) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. He was one of the first important soloists in jazz, and first recorded several months before trumpeter Louis Armstrong. His erratic tempe ...
while still in school at Wuppertal, and it made a lasting impression.
He has not abandoned his art training. Brötzmann has designed most of his album covers. He taught himself to play
clarinets, then
saxophone
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s; he is also known for playing the
tárogató.
Among his first musical partnerships was with double bassist
Peter Kowald
Peter Kowald (21 April 1944 – 21 September 2002) was a German free jazz and free improvising double bassist and tubist.
Career
A member of the Globe Unity Orchestra, and a touring double-bass player, Kowald collaborated with many European ...
. ''
For Adolphe Sax'', Brötzmann's first recording, was released in 1967 and featured Kowald and drummer
Sven-Åke Johansson.
In 1968 ''
Machine Gun
A machine gun is a fully automatic, rifled autoloading firearm designed for sustained direct fire with rifle cartridges. Other automatic firearms such as automatic shotguns and automatic rifles (including assault rifles and battle rifles) ar ...
'', an
octet
Octet may refer to:
Music
* Octet (music), ensemble consisting of eight instruments or voices, or composition written for such an ensemble
** String octet, a piece of music written for eight string instruments
*** Octet (Mendelssohn), 1825 compos ...
recording, was released.
The album was self-produced under his BRO record label imprint and sold at concerts, but it was later marketed by
FMP. In 2007
Atavistic reissued ''Machine Gun''.
Career
The album ''Nipples'' was recorded in 1969 with many of the ''Machine Gun'' musicians, including drummer
Han Bennink
Han Bennink (born 17 April 1942) is a Dutch drummer and percussionist. On occasion his recordings have featured him playing soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, trombone, violin, banjo and piano.
Though perhaps best known as one of the pivotal fig ...
, pianist
Fred Van Hove, and tenor saxophonist
Evan Parker
Evan Shaw Parker (born 5 April 1944) is a British tenor and soprano saxophone player who plays free improvisation.
Recording and performing prolifically with many collaborators, Parker was a pivotal figure in the development of European free ja ...
, plus British guitarist
Derek Bailey. The second set of takes from these sessions, called ''More Nipples'', is more raucous. ''Fuck De Boere'' (Dedicated to
Johnny Dyani
Johnny Mbizo Dyani (30 November 1945 – 24 October 1986) was a South African jazz double bassist, vocalist and pianist, who, in addition to being a key member of The Blue Notes, played with such international musicians as Don Cherry, Steve L ...
) is a live album of free sessions from these early years, containing two long improvisations, a 1968 recording of "Machine Gun" live (earlier than the studio version) and a longer jam from 1970. Brötzmann was a member of Bennink's
Instant Composers Pool, a collective of musicians who released their own records and that grew into a 10-piece orchestra.
The logistics of touring with the ICP tentet or his octet resulted in Brötzmann reducing the group to a trio with
Han Bennink
Han Bennink (born 17 April 1942) is a Dutch drummer and percussionist. On occasion his recordings have featured him playing soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, trombone, violin, banjo and piano.
Though perhaps best known as one of the pivotal fig ...
and Fred Van Hove. Bennink was a partner in ''Schwarzwaldfahrt'', an album of duets recorded outside in the Black Forest in 1977 with Bennink drumming on trees and other objects found in the woods.
In 1981, Brötzmann made a radio broadcast with
Frank Wright and
Willem Breuker
Willem Breuker (4 November 1944 – 23 July 2010) was a Dutch bandleader, composer, arranger, saxophonist, and clarinetist.
Career
During the mid 1960s, he played with percussionist Han Bennink and pianist Misha Mengelberg, co-founding the I ...
(saxes),
Toshinori Kondo
was a Japanese avant-garde jazz and jazz fusion trumpeter.
Career
Kondo was born in Ehime Prefecture. He attended Kyoto university in 1967, and became close friends with percussionist Tsuchitori Toshiyuki. In 1972 the pair left university, and ...
(trumpet),
Hannes Bauer
Johannes "Hannes" Bauer (22 July 1954 – 6 May 2016) was a German trombonist of improvised music and free jazz. He was the brother of the trombonist Conny Bauer.
He was born in Halle. From 1979 onwards, he worked as a freelance musician in Be ...
and Alan Tomlinson (trombones),
Alexander von Schlippenbach
Alexander von Schlippenbach (born 7 April 1938) is a German jazz pianist and composer. He came to prominence in the 1960s playing free jazz in a trio with saxophonist Evan Parker and drummer Paul Lovens, and as a member of the Globe Unity Orchest ...
(piano),
Louis Moholo
Louis Tebogo Moholo (born 10 March 1940), is a South African jazz drummer. He has been a member of several notable bands, including The Blue Notes, the Brotherhood of Breath and Assagai.
Biography
Born in Cape Town, Moholo formed The Blue ...
(drums),
Harry Miller (bass). This was released as the album ''Alarm''.
In the 1980s, Brötzmann flirted with
heavy metal and
noise rock
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, recording with
Last Exit and the band's bass guitarist and producer
Bill Laswell
William Otis Laswell (born February 12, 1955) is an American bass guitarist, record producer, and record label owner. He has been involved in thousands of recordings with many collaborators from all over the world. His music draws from funk, ...
.
Brötzmann has released over fifty albums as a bandleader and has appeared on dozens more. His "Die Like a Dog Quartet" (with
Toshinori Kondo
was a Japanese avant-garde jazz and jazz fusion trumpeter.
Career
Kondo was born in Ehime Prefecture. He attended Kyoto university in 1967, and became close friends with percussionist Tsuchitori Toshiyuki. In 1972 the pair left university, and ...
,
William Parker and drummer
Hamid Drake) is loosely inspired by saxophonist
Albert Ayler
Albert Ayler (; July 13, 1936 – November 25, 1970) was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist, singer and composer.
After early experience playing R&B and bebop, Ayler began recording music during the free jazz era of the 1960s. Howev ...
, a prime influence on Brötzmann's music. Since 1997, he has toured and recorded regularly with the Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet (initially an octet) which he disbanded after an ensemble performance in November 2012 in Strasbourg, France.
Brötzmann has also recorded or performed with
Cecil Taylor,
Keiji Haino
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, Willem van Manen,
Mats Gustafsson
Mats Olof Gustafsson (born 29 October 1964) is a Swedish free jazz saxophone player.
Career
Gustafsson came to the attention of lovers of improvised music as part of a duo with Christian Munthe (started in 1986), as member of Gunter Chri ...
,
Ken Vandermark
Ken Vandermark (born September 22, 1964) is an American composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist.
A fixture on the Chicago-area music scene since the 1990s, Vandermark has earned wide critical praise for his playing and his multilayered compos ...
,
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 ...
,
Joe McPhee,
Paal Nilssen-Love
Paal Nilssen-Love (born 24 December 1974) is a Norwegian drummer and composer in the jazz, free jazz and free improvisation genres. (in Norwegian)
Early life
Nilssen-Love was born in Molde, Norway. His parents ran a jazz club in Stavanger, and h ...
and Brötzmann's son,
Caspar Brötzmann.
Discography
As leader
* ''
For Adolphe Sax'' (Brö, 1967)
* ''
Machine Gun
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'' (Brö, 1968)
* ''
Nipples'' (Calig, 1969)
* ''Solo'' (FMP, 1976)
* ''3 Points and a Mountain'' with
Misha Mengelberg
Misha Mengelberg (5 June 1935 – 3 March 2017) was a Dutch jazz pianist and composer.Feather, Leonard & Gitler, Ira (2007) ''The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz'', p. 459. Oxford University Press. A prominent figure in post-WWII European Jazz ...
(FMP, 1979)
* ''Alarm'' (FMP, 1983)
* ''Pica Pica'' (FMP, 1984)
* ''Berlin Djungle'' (FMP, 1987)
* ''Go-No-Go'' (FMP, 1987)
* ''Low Life'' (Celluloid, 1987)
* ''In a State of Undress'' with Jay Oliver (FMP, 1989)
* ''Reserve'' with
Günter Sommer
Günter "Baby" Sommer (born 25 August 1943) is a German jazz drummer.
Career
Sommer was born in Dresden on 25 August 1943. His first instrument was the trumpet, which he studied at school. He started playing the drums aged 15 or 16. He studie ...
(FMP, 1989)
* ''No Nothing'' (FMP, 1991)
* ''The Marz Combo Live in Wuppertal'' (FMP, 1993)
* ''Songlines'' with
Fred Hopkins
Fred Hopkins (October 11, 1947 – January 7, 1999) was an American double bassist who played a major role in the development of the avant-garde jazz movement. He was best known for his association with the trio Air with Henry Threadgill and S ...
(FMP, 1994)
* ''Sacred Scrape'' with
Gregg Bendian (Rastascan, 1994)
* ''Nothing to Say'' (FMP, 1996)
* ''Exhilaration'' with
Borah Bergman (Soul Note, 1997)
* ''Eight by Three'' with Borah Bergman (Mixtery, 1997)
* ''1/2/3'' (Okka Disk, 1998)
* ''Stone & Water'' (Okka Disk, 2000)
* ''The Atlanta Concert'' with
Fred Hopkins
Fred Hopkins (October 11, 1947 – January 7, 1999) was an American double bassist who played a major role in the development of the avant-garde jazz movement. He was best known for his association with the trio Air with Henry Threadgill and S ...
(Okka Disk, 2001)
* ''Right as Rain'' (FMP, 2001)
* ''Fuck de Boere'' (Atavista, 2001)
* ''Organized Chaos'' with
Nicky Skopelitis
Nicky Skopelitis (born January 19, 1960) is an American guitarist and composer of Greek descent. He also has performed on banjo, oud, lute, keyboards and other instruments. Although Skopelitis has recorded few albums as a bandleader, he has ap ...
(Konnex, 2002)
* ''Short Visit to Nowhere'' (Okka Disk, 2002)
* ''Usable Past'' (Olof Bright, 2002)
* ''Broken English'' (Okka Disk, 2002)
* ''The Ink Is Gone'' with
Walter Perkins (Brö, 2003)
* ''The Inexplicable Flyswatter'' (Atavistic, 2003)
* ''More Nipples'' (Atavistic, 2003)
* ''Petroglyphs'' (Long Arms, 2004)
* ''Live at Spruce Street Forum'' with
Lisle Ellis
Lisle Ellis, (born November 17, 1951) is a Canadian jazz bassist and composer who is known for his improvisational style and use of electronics.
Biography
Ellis was born in Campbell River, British Columbia. Ellis began playing electric bass in ...
(Botticelli 2004)
* ''
Tales Out of Time'' (HatHut, 2004)
* ''Signs'' (Okka Disk, 2004)
* ''Images'' (Okka Disk, 2004)
* ''Be Music Night'' (Okka Disk, 2005)
* ''Live at the 'Bottle' Fest 2005'' (Brö, 2005)
* ''American Landscapes 1'' (Okka Disk, 2007)
* ''American Landscapes 2'' (Okka Disk, 2007)
* ''The Fat Is Gone'' with
Paal Nilssen-Love
Paal Nilssen-Love (born 24 December 1974) is a Norwegian drummer and composer in the jazz, free jazz and free improvisation genres. (in Norwegian)
Early life
Nilssen-Love was born in Molde, Norway. His parents ran a jazz club in Stavanger, and h ...
(Smalltown Superjazzz, 2007)
* ''SweetSweat'' with Paal Nilssen-Love (Smalltown Superjazzz, 2008)
* ''At Molde 2007'' (Okka Disk, 2008)
* ''Hairy Bones'' with
Toshinori Kondo
was a Japanese avant-garde jazz and jazz fusion trumpeter.
Career
Kondo was born in Ehime Prefecture. He attended Kyoto university in 1967, and became close friends with percussionist Tsuchitori Toshiyuki. In 1972 the pair left university, and ...
(Okka Disk, 2009)
* ''Lost & Found'' (FMP, 2009)
* ''Goosetalks'' with
Johannes Bauer (Kilogram, 2010)
* ''Mayday'' (Corbett vs. Dempsey, 2010)
* ''Woodcuts'' (Smalltown Superjazzz, 2010)
* ''Live in Wiesbaden'' with
Jörg Fischer
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(Not Two, 2011)
* ''Yatagarasu'' with
Masahiko Satoh (Not Two, 2012)
* ''Going All Fancy'' with
Jason Adasiewicz (Brö, 2012)
* ''Walk, Love, Sleep'' (Smalltown Superjazzz, 2012)
* ''The Worse the Better'' (Otoroku, 2012)
* ''Solo at Dobialab'' (Dobialabel 2012)
* ''Solo & Trio Roma'' (Victo, 2012)
* ''China Live 2011'' (Jazzhus 2012)
* ''Solid and Spirit'' (Nero's Neptune 2013)
* ''Peter Brotzmann Alexander Von Schlippenbach Achim Trampenau'' (Carbon Edition, 2013)
* ''Mollie's in the Mood'' with Jason Adasiewicz (Brö, 2014)
* ''Whatthefuckdoyouwant'' with
Sonny Sharrock
Warren Harding "Sonny" Sharrock (August 27, 1940 – May 25, 1994) was an American jazz guitarist. He was married to singer Linda Sharrock, with whom he recorded and performed.
One of only a few prominent guitarists who participated in the fir ...
(Trost, 2014)
* ''Mental Shake'' (Otoroku, 2014)
* ''Munster Bern'' (Cubus, 2015)
* ''Beautiful Lies'' (Neos, 2016)
* ''Machine Gun Alternate Takes'' (Cien Fuegos, 2018)
* ''I Surrender Dear'' (Trost, 2019)
* ''Karacho!'' (Euphorium, 2019)
* ''No Nothing Alternate Takes'' (FMP, 2020)
* ''Philosophy of Sound'' (Toshinori Kondo 2020)
With
Han Bennink
Han Bennink (born 17 April 1942) is a Dutch drummer and percussionist. On occasion his recordings have featured him playing soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, trombone, violin, banjo and piano.
Though perhaps best known as one of the pivotal fig ...
* ''Ein Halber Hund Kann Nicht Pinkeln'' (FMP, 1977)
* ''Schwarzwaldfahrt'' (FMP, 1977)
* ''Atsugi Concert'' (Gua Bungue 1980)
* ''Still Quite Popular After All Those Years'' (Brö, 2004)
* ''Total Music Meeting 1977 Berlin'' (Brö, 2006)
* ''In Amherst 2006'' (Brö, 2008)
With Die Like a Dog Quartet
* ''
Die Like a Dog: Fragments of Music, Life and Death of Albert Ayler'' (FMP, 1994)
* ''
Little Birds Have Fast Hearts'' Nos. 1 and 2 (FMP, 1998/1999)
* ''
From Valley to Valley'' (Eremite, 1999)
* ''
Aoyama Crows
''Aoyama Crows'' is a live album by the Die Like a Dog Quartet: saxophonist Peter Brötzmann, trumpeter Toshinori Kondo, bassist William Parker, and drummer Hamid Drake. It was recorded in November 1999 at the "Total Music Meeting" held at the P ...
'' (FMP, 2002)
* ''Close Up'' (FMP, 2011)
With
Hamid Drake
* ''
The Dried Rat–Dog'' (Okka Disk, 1995)
* ''Live at the Empty Bottle'' (Okka Disk, 1999)
* ''Brotzmann & Drake'' (Brö, 2010)
With
Mahmoud Guinia
Mahmoud Guinia ( ar, محمود ﯕينيا, and rarely or ; also spelled Gania, Guinea or Khania; 1951 – 2 August 2015) was a Moroccan Gnawa musician, singer and guembri player, who was traditionally regarded as a Maâllem (), i.e. master. T ...
and
Hamid Drake
* ''
The Wels Concert'' (Okka Disk, 1997)
With Moukhtar Gania and Hamid Drake
* ''
The Catch of a Ghost'' (I Dischi Di Angelica, 2020)
With
Milford Graves
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and
William Parker
* ''
Historic Music Past Tense Future'' (Black Editions Archive, 2022)
With
Fred Lonberg-Holm
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Lonberg-Holm is most identified with playing free improvisation and free jazz. He is also a composer of concert work ...
* ''The Brain of the Dog in Section'' (Atavistic, 2008)
* ''Ouroboros'' (
Astral Spirits, 2018)
* ''Memories of a Tunicate'' (
Relative Pitch
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, 2020)
With
Last Exit
* ''
Last Exit'' (Enemy, 1986)
* ''
The Noise of Trouble'' (Enemy, 1986)
* ''
Cassette Recordings '87'' (Enemy, 1987)
* ''
Iron Path'' (Virgin, 1988)
* ''
Köln'' (ITM, 1990)
* ''
Headfirst into the Flames'' (MuWorks, 1993)
With
Harry Miller
* ''The Nearer the Bone, the Sweeter the Meat'' (FMP, 1979)
* ''Opened, But Hardly Touched'' (FMP, 1981)
* ''Brotzmann & Miller'' (Corbett Vs. Dempsey 2007)
With
William Parker
* ''Nothung In'' (Tone Music 2002)
* ''
Never Too Late But Always Too Early'' (Eremite, 2003)
* ''Song Sentimentale'' (Otoroku, 2016)
With
Steve Swell
Steve Swell (born in Newark, New Jersey, December 6, 1954) is an American free jazz trombonist, composer, and educator.
Music career
Swell studied at Jersey City State Teachers College before moving to New York City in 1975 where he began his m ...
* ''Krakow Nights'' (Not Two, 2015)
* ''Live in Copenhagen'' (Not Two, 2016)
* ''Live in Tel Aviv'' (Not Two, 2017)
With
Fred Van Hove
* ''Balls'' (FMP, 1970)
* ''The End'' (FMP, 1971)
* ''Elements'' (FMP, 1971)
* ''Brotzmann/Van Hove/Bennink'' (FMP, 1973)
* ''Free Jazz Und Kinder'' (FMP, 1973)
* ''Tschus'' (FMP, 1975)
* ''Outspan No 1'' (FMP, 1975)
* ''Outspan No 2'' (FMP, 1975)
* ''1971'' (Corbett vs. Dempsey, 2015)
* ''Couscouss De La Mauresque'' (FMP, 2017)
With Wild Man's Band
* ''The Wild Mans Band'' (Ninth World Music, 1998)
* ''Three Rocks and a Pine'' (Ninth World Music, 1999)
* ''The Darkest River'' (Ninth World Music, 2001)
* ''Flower Head'' (Ninth World Music, 2007)
* ''Fredensborg'' (Ninth World Music, 2015)
* ''Live Kobenhavn 2009'' (Ninth World Music, 2015)
With Sakari Luoma & Nikolai Yudanov
* Fryed Fruit (Red Toucan Records, 2001)
As sideman
With
Frode Gjerstad
Frode Gjerstad (born 24 March 1948) is a Norwegian jazz musician with alto saxophone as principal instrument, but he also plays other saxophones, clarinet, and flute. He has collaborated with Paal Nilssen-Love, Borah Bergman, Peter Brötzmann, ...
* ''Invisible Touch'' (Cadence, 1999)
* ''Sharp Knives Cut Deeper'' (Splasc(H), 2003)
* ''Soria Moria'' (FMR, 2003)
* ''Live at the Empty Bottle'' (Circulasione Totale 2019)
With
Globe Unity Orchestra
The Globe Unity Orchestra is a free jazz ensemble.
Globe Unity was formed in autumn 1966 with a commission received by Alexander von Schlippenbach from the Berlin Jazz Festival. It had its debut at the Berliner Philharmonie on 3 November combini ...
* ''Live in Wuppertal'' (FMP, 1973)
* ''Der Alte Mann Bricht ... Sein Schweigen'' (FMP, 1974)
* ''Bavarian Calypso & Good Bye'' (FMP, 1975)
* ''Jahrmarkt/Local Fair'' (Po Torch, 1977)
* ''Pearls'' (FMP, 1977)
* ''Improvisations'' (Japo, 1978)
* ''Hamburg '74'' (FMP, 1979)
* ''Globe Unity 2002'' (Intakt, 2003)
* ''Baden-Baden '75'' (FMP, 2011)
With others
*
Derek Bailey, ''Live in Okayama 1987'' (Improvised, 2000)
*
Ginger Baker
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, ''No Material'' (ITM, 1989)
* Ginger Baker, ''Live in Munich Germany 1987'' (Voiceprint, 2010)
*
Johannes Bauer, ''Blue City'' (Trost, 2017)
*
Thomas Borgmann, ''Stalker Songs'' (CIMP, 1998)
*
Caspar Brotzmann, ''
Last Home'' (Pathological, 1990)
*
Don Cherry
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, ''
Actions'' (Philips, 1971)
*
Marilyn Crispell
Marilyn Crispell (born March 30, 1947) is an American jazz pianist and composer. Scott Yanow described her as "a powerful player... who has her own way of using space... She is near the top of her field." Jon Pareles of The New York Times wrot ...
, ''
Hyperion'' (Music & Art, 1995)
*
Andrew Cyrille
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, ''
Andrew Cyrille Meets Brötzmann in Berlin'' (FMP, 1983)
*
Hanns Eisler
Hanns Eisler (6 July 1898 – 6 September 1962) was an Austrian composer (his father was Austrian, and Eisler fought in a Hungarian regiment in World War I). He is best known for composing the national anthem of East Germany, for his long artisti ...
, ''Einheitsfrontlied'' (FMP, 1973)
*
Heiner Goebbels, ''Horstucke'' (ECM, 1994)
*
Charles Hayward, ''Double Agent(s) Live in Japan Vol. Two'' (Locus Solus, 1998)
*
Haino Keiji, ''Two City Blues'' (Trost, 2015)
*
Peter Kowald
Peter Kowald (21 April 1944 – 21 September 2002) was a German free jazz and free improvising double bassist and tubist.
Career
A member of the Globe Unity Orchestra, and a touring double-bass player, Kowald collaborated with many European ...
, ''Duos Europa'' (FMP, 1991)
*
London Jazz Composers Orchestra, ''Stringer'' (FMP, 1983)
* London Jazz Composers Orchestra, ''That Time'' (Not Two, 2020)
*
Joe McPhee, ''
Guts
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'' (Okka Disk, 2006)
* Joe McPhee, ''The Damage Is Done'' (Not Two, 2009)
*
Misha Mengelberg
Misha Mengelberg (5 June 1935 – 3 March 2017) was a Dutch jazz pianist and composer.Feather, Leonard & Gitler, Ira (2007) ''The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz'', p. 459. Oxford University Press. A prominent figure in post-WWII European Jazz ...
, ''Groupcomposing'' (Instant Composers Pool, 1978)
* Misha Mengelberg, ''Japan Japon'' (Instant Composers Pool, 1982)
*
Phil Minton
Phil Minton (born 2 November 1940) is a British avant-garde jazz/ free-improvising vocalist and trumpeter.
Minton is a highly dramatic baritone who tends to specialize in literary texts: he has sung lyrics by William Blake with Mike Westbrook' ...
, ''The Berlin Station'' (FMP, 1988)
*
Evan Parker
Evan Shaw Parker (born 5 April 1944) is a British tenor and soprano saxophone player who plays free improvisation.
Recording and performing prolifically with many collaborators, Parker was a pivotal figure in the development of European free ja ...
, ''The Bishop's Move'' (Victo, 2004)
*
Manfred Schoof, ''European Echoes'' (FMP, 1969)
*
Cecil Taylor, ''
Alms/Tiergarten (Spree)'' (FMP, 1989)
* Cecil Taylor, ''
Olu Iwa'' (Soul Note, 1994)
*
Fred Van Hove, ''Front to Front'' (Dropa Disc 2020)
*
Alexander von Schlippenbach
Alexander von Schlippenbach (born 7 April 1938) is a German jazz pianist and composer. He came to prominence in the 1960s playing free jazz in a trio with saxophonist Evan Parker and drummer Paul Lovens, and as a member of the Globe Unity Orchest ...
, ''Globe Unity'' (SABA, 1967)
* Alexander von Schlippenbach, ''The Living Music'' (Quasar, 1969)
Films
* ''RAGE!'', by Bernard Josse (F 2011)
* ''BRÖTZMANN'', Filmproduktion Siegersbusch, documentary film by René Jeuckens, Thomas Mau and Grischa Windus (Cinema, DVD, D/UK 2011)
Further reading
Peter Brötzmann, ''We thought we could change the world''. Conversations with Gérard Rouy. Wolke Verlag, Hofheim 2014. .
References
External links
Official website*
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1941 births
Living people
Avant-garde jazz musicians
German jazz saxophonists
Male saxophonists
Last Exit (free jazz band) members
People from Remscheid
People from the Rhine Province
CIMP artists
21st-century saxophonists
21st-century German male musicians
German male jazz musicians
Globe Unity Orchestra members
ICP Orchestra members
Atavistic Records artists
FMP/Free Music Production artists
Okka Disk artists