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Wolfgang Lackerschmid (born 19 September 1956 in
Tegernsee
Tegernsee is a town in the Miesbach district of Bavaria, Germany. It is located on the shore of Lake Tegernsee, which is 747 m (2,451 ft) above sea level. A spa town, it is surrounded by an alpine landscape of Upper Bavaria, and has an e ...
) is a German
jazz
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musician,
bandleader
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and
composer
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. His main instrument is the
vibraphone
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, but he also plays many other
percussion instrument
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s. Lackerschmid grew up in
Ehingen
Ehingen (Donau) (; Swabian: ''Eegne'') is a town in the Alb-Donau district in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, situated on the left bank of the Danube, approx. southwest of Ulm and southeast of Stuttgart.
The city, like the entire district of ...
and now lives in
Augsburg
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, where he operates a
recording studio
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.
Live and act
Lackerschmid grew up in Ehingen/Donau. From 1975 to 1980 he studied composition/music theory with Martin Gümbel and percussion with Gyula Rasz at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts.
In 1976 Lackerschmid founded his Mallet Connection, with which he recorded the LP of the same name in the same year. On this LP he worked with artists like Rocky Knauer, Gerhart Ziegler, Janusz Stefanski, Dieter Bihlmaier, Leszek Zadlo and Herbert Joos. In 1978 Joachim Ernst Berendt brought him to the first Vibraphone Summit together with Karl Berger, David Friedman and Tom van der Geld.
Through these engagements and collaborations, Lackerschmid gained increasing fame in the European jazz scene. In January 1979 came the lastingly important collaboration with trumpeter Chet Baker. When the two met at a festival, Lackerschmid suggested Baker to record a duo album. Enthusiastic about the idea, the two found themselves in the studio in Stuttgart a few months later and recorded the LP Ballads for Two, followed by Chet Baker/Wolfgang Lackerschmid, with Larry Coryell, Buster Williams and Tony Williams.
Tom Lord
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: ''The Jazz Discography'
Jazz Discography
(online, retrieved 16 October 2019)
After the vibraphonist concentrated more on his record company Sandra Musik in the early 1980s, in 1988 he received his first major commission from a theater stage. He wrote the ballet music for Snow White at the Augsburg City Theater.
Since Lackerschmid moved his residence to Augsburg, there were more and more projects there. He wrote commissioned works for the Augsburg Theater (Faust, Peer Gynt) and the Augsburger Puppenkiste (Paula and the Box Goblins, A Midsummer Night's Dream). He also set to music poetry by the famous Augsburg writer Bertolt Brecht and the Bäsle letters by W.A. Mozart and dedicated the composition Stone Sound, History of a City to the city.
Since about 1980 he has also been touring outside of Europe, mainly in the United States of America. Alongside Chet Baker, Attilla Zoller is one of his most important companions.
According to discographer Tom Lord, he was involved in 48 recording sessions between 1976 and 2016. He lives in Augsburg, where he also runs a recording studio. Since 2016 he has been a member of the national board of the German Jazz Union (formerly the Union of German Jazz Musicians).
Discography
As leader
* ''Mallet Connection'' (Plane, 1978)
* ''
Ballads for Two
''Ballads for Two'' is an album by trumpeter Chet Baker and vibraphonist Wolfgang Lackerschmid which was recorded in 1979 and first released on Lackerschmid's Sandra Music Productions label.Chet Baker / Wolfgang Lackerschmid
''Chet Baker / Wolfgang Lackerschmid'' is an album by trumpeter Chet Baker and vibraphonist Wolfgang Lackerschmid with guitarist Larry Coryell, bassist Buster Williams and drummer Tony Williams which was recorded in 1979 and first released on the ...
'' (Sandra, 1980)
* ''Live Conversation'' (In-akustik, 1985)
* ''Originals'' (Art & Sound, 1988)
* ''Live Highlights '92'' with Atilla Zoller (Bhakti, 1992)
* ''One More Life'' (Bhakti, 1992)
* ''Gently but Deep'' (Bhakti, 1996)
* ''Colors'' (Hot Wire, 1997)
* ''Hurry Up and Wait'' (Hipjazz, 2007)
* ''Common Language, Common Sense'' (Hipjazz, 2011)
* ''Magic Brewery'' (Hipjazz, 2013)
* ''Wolfgang Lackerschmid Quartet'' (TCB, 2015)
* ''Samba Gostoso'' (Hipjazz, 2016)
* ''Studio Konzert'' (Neuklang, 2018)
References
* Wolf Kampmann ''Reclams Jazzlexikon''. Stuttgart 2003;
*
Martin Kunzler
Martin Kunzler (born 29 April 1947) is a German jazz bassist and music journalist. He gained particular fame through his ''rororo Jazz-Lexikon'' published by Rowohlt Verlag, which is now considered the standard German-language work on this music ...
''Jazz-Lexikon Bd. 1''. Reinbek 2002;
External links
Official site* http://www.jazzclub-ehingen.de/Jazz-Programm-Wolfgang%20Lackerschmid.htm
* http://idw.tu-clausthal.de/pages/de/news185335
1956 births
Living people
Bandleaders
German composers
German jazz musicians
German percussionists
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