Peter Brötzmann (born 6 March 1941) is a German

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and

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Biography

Early life

Brötzmann was born in

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, Germany. He studied painting in

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and was involved with the

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movement but grew dissatisfied with art galleries and exhibitions. He experienced his first jazz concert when he saw American jazz musician

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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

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s; he is also known for playing the tárogató. Among his first musical partnerships was with double bassist

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. '' For Adolphe Sax'', Brötzmann's first recording, was released in 1967 and featured Kowald and drummer Sven-Åke Johansson. In 1968 ''

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'', an

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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

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, pianist Fred Van Hove, and tenor saxophonist

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, plus British guitarist Derek Bailey. The second set of takes from these sessions, called ''More Nipples'', is more raucous. ''Fuck De Boere'' (Dedicated to

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) 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

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

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(saxes),

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(trumpet),

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and Alan Tomlinson (trombones),

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(piano),

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(drums), Harry Miller (bass). This was released as the album ''Alarm''. In the 1980s, Brötzmann flirted with heavy metal and

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, recording with Last Exit and the band's bass guitarist and producer

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. Brötzmann has released over fifty albums as a bandleader and has appeared on dozens more. His "Die Like a Dog Quartet" (with

, William Parker and drummer Hamid Drake) is loosely inspired by saxophonist

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, 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,

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, Willem van Manen,

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, Joe McPhee,

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and Brötzmann's son, Caspar Brötzmann.

Discography

As leader

* '' For Adolphe Sax'' (Brö, 1967) * ''

'' (Brö, 1968) * '' Nipples'' (Calig, 1969) * ''Solo'' (FMP, 1976) * ''3 Points and a Mountain'' with

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(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

(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

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(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

(Smalltown Superjazzz, 2007) * ''SweetSweat'' with Paal Nilssen-Love (Smalltown Superjazzz, 2008) * ''At Molde 2007'' (Okka Disk, 2008) * ''Hairy Bones'' with

(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

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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

* ''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

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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

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and William Parker * '' Historic Music Past Tense Future'' (Black Editions Archive, 2022) With

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* ''The Brain of the Dog in Section'' (Atavistic, 2008) * ''Ouroboros'' ( Astral Spirits, 2018) * ''Memories of a Tunicate'' (

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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

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* ''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) *

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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) *

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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 Andrew Charles Cyrille (born November 10, 1939) is an American avant-garde jazz drummer. Throughout his career, he has performed both as a leader and a sideman in the bands of Walt Dickerson and Cecil Taylor, among others. AllMusic biographer ...

, '' 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) *

, ''Duos Europa'' (FMP, 1991) * London Jazz Composers Orchestra, ''Stringer'' (FMP, 1983) * London Jazz Composers Orchestra, ''That Time'' (Not Two, 2020) * Joe McPhee, ''

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'' (Okka Disk, 2006) * Joe McPhee, ''The Damage Is Done'' (Not Two, 2009) *

, ''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) *

, ''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) *

, ''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)

References

External links

Official website
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