Wolfgang Puschnig (born 21 May 1956 in

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, Austria) is an Austrian jazz musician (saxophone, flute, bass clarinet) and composer. Wolfgang Puschnig 2008

Biography

After his studies of saxophone and flute at the Vienna Conservatory Puschnig was the founding member of the

Vienna Art Orchestra The Vienna Art Orchestra was a European jazz group based in Vienna, Austria. Organized at different times as either a big band or as a smaller combo, it was regarded as one of the leading European jazz ensembles and was an official cultural ambas ...

together with Mathias Rüegg in the mid-1970s. Here he was active until 1989. He was also involved in projects with Ernst Jandl involving Lauren Newton. He also played with

Hans Koller Antonio Hans Cyrill Koller (12 February 1921 in Vienna – 21 December 2003 in Vienna) was an Austrian jazz tenor saxophonist and bandleader. Koller attended the University of Vienna from 1936 to 1939 and served in the armed forces from 1940 to 1 ...

in the early 1980s, with the quartet 'Air Mail' and 'Saxofour'. Carla Bley brought him into her groups in the mid 1980s. He worked with Wolfgang Mitterer, Uli Scherer, and his longtime partner

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and

Jamaaladeen Tacuma Jamaaladeen Tacuma (born Rudy McDaniel; June 11, 1956) is an American free jazz bassist born in Hempstead, New York. He was a bandleader on the Gramavision label and worked with Ornette Coleman during the 1970s and 1980s, mostly in Coleman's P ...

in different groups, and also has cooperated with Reinhard Flatischler, Herbert Joos,

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, and

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. In the project "Alpine Aspects" he started in 1991 with jazz musicians and the Amstetten musicians together (most recently at the

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2006 and at Musikfest Waidhofen / Thaya 2007). In addition, he has repeatedly performed with the Korean percussion ensemble

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. Puschnig is Professor at the

Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien The University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (german: link=no, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, abbreviated MDW) is an Austrian university located in Vienna, established in 1817. With a student body of over three thousa ...

and Board of the Institute for Popular Music.

Honors (selection)

* 1998: Hans Koller Prize as "Jazz Musician of the Year" * 2003: Recognition Award of Carinthia * 2004: The first musician to receive an

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from the

Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt The University of Klagenfurt (german: Universität Klagenfurt or ''Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt'', AAU) is a federal Austrian research university and the largest research and higher education institution in the state of Carinthia. It has it ...

* 2016: Officer's Cross of the State of Carinthia's Order of Merit ( Großes Ehrenzeichen des Landes Kärnten)

Discography

Solo albums

* 1988: ''Pieces Of The Dream'' (Amadeo) * 1991: ''Alpine Aspects'' (Amadeo) * 1995: ''Mixed Metaphors'' (Amadeo) * 1997: ''Dream Weavers'' (Label Hopi) * 1998: ''Roots & Fruits'' ( EmArcy) * 1999: ''Aspects'' (Pao Records) * 2001: ''Chants'' (Quinton Records) * 2006: ''Things Change: The 50th Anniversary Box'' (EmArcy), 3xCD

Collaborations

;With

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* 1984: ''Bist Eulen?'' (Extraplatte) * 1988: ''Vom Vom Zum Zum'' (Extraplatte) ;With 'Air Mail' (

Harry Pepl Harry Pepl (10 September 1945 – 5 December 2005) was an Austrian jazz guitarist and composer born in Wien. Biography Pepl studied classical guitar at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien. He oriented his musical preferenc ...

, Mike Richmond, Wolfgang Puschnig, Wolfgang Reisinger) * 1985: ''Prayer For Peace'' (Moers Music) * 1988: ''Light Blues'' (Amadeo, LP) * 2001: ''Light Blues'' (EmArcy, CD) ;With 'AM 4' (Wolfgang Puschnig /

/ Uli Scherer) * 1989: ''... And She Answered:'' ( ECM Records) ;With Red Sun Samulnori (Choi Jong Sil, Kang Min Seok, Kim Duk-Soo, Lee Kwang Soo) * 1989: ''Red Sun Samulnori'' (Amadeo) * 1994: ''Then Comes The White Tiger'' ( ECM Records) * 1995: ''Nanjang - A new Horizon'' (Amadeo, Antilles) ;With Carla Bley * 1991: '' The Very Big Carla Bley Band'' (WATT Works) * 1996: ''

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'' (WATT Works) * 2003: '' Looking for America'' (WATT Works) * 2008: ''

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'' (WATT Works) ;With Paul Urbanek and Hans Koller * 2000: ''The Hans Koller Concept'' (Extraplatte) * 2002: ''The Hans Koller Concept 2'' (Extraplatte) With the

*'' Tango from Obango'' (Art, 1980) *'' Concerto Piccolo'' (Hat ART, 1981) *'' Suite for the Green Eighties'' (Hat ART, 1982) *'' From No Time to Rag Time'' (Hat ART, 1983) *'' The Minimalism of Erik Satie'' (Hat ART, 1984) *'' A Notion in Perpetual Motion'' (Hat ART, 1985) ;With other projects * 1986: ''Obsoderso'' (Moers Music), as Wolfgang Puschnig / Wolfgang Mitterer * 1986: ''Pat Brothers No. 1.'' (Moers Music), with The Pat Brothers (Wolfgang Mitterer, Wolfgang Puschnig) * 1988: ''Two Songs For Another Lovely War'' (Ex Zed Records), as Wolfgang Puschnig / Christian Radovan / Wolfgang Reisinger / Uli Scherer / Heiri Kaenzig / Harry Sokal / Mathias Rüegg * 1998: ''Holy Aureols Esoteric'' (Esovision), as Wolfgang Puschnig and Stefan Benkö * 1998: ''Spaces'' (EmArcy), as Wolfgang Puschnig • Mark Feldman * 1998: ''hot ROOM'' (Extraplatte), as Lechner / Puschnig /

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/ Youssef * 2000: ''Almost Blue'' (EmArcy), with Willi Resetarits * 2002: ''Grey'' (Quinton Records), as Wolfgang Puschnig ,

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* 2002: ''Red - White - Red & Spangled'' (Universal Music Austria), with Harry Sokal * 2005: ''Odem'' (EmArcy), as Wolfgang Puschnig, Jatinder Thakur, Dhafer Youssef * 2005: ''Color Fields'' (Unit Records), as Newton -

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- Puschnig * 2005: ''Voices Of Time'' (Universal Music Austria), with Harry Sokal * 2007: ''Late Night Show Part II ''(Quinton Records), as Puschnig / Sharrock * 2008: ''Gemini Gemini'' (ITM ARCHIVES, 2xCD), with

* 2008: ''Alpine Aspects - Homage To O.C.'' (EmArcy), as Wolfgang Puschnig , Robert Pussecker * 2010: ''Terra'' (Leo Records), with

Sainkho Namtchylak Sainkho Namtchylak ( tyv, Сайын-Хөө Намчылак, russian: Сайнхо Намчылак, born 1957) is a singer originally from Tuva, an autonomous republic in the Russian Federation just north of Mongolia. She is known for her Tuvan ...

* 2011: ''Berühren'' (PAN TAU-X Records), with Triomobile ( Ponger, Roder, Soyka, Puschnig) * 2014: ''The Jazz Composer's Orchestra Update'' (ECM Records), with

Michael Mantler Michael Mantler (born August 10, 1943) is an Austrian avant-garde jazz trumpeter and composer of contemporary music. Career: United States Mantler was born in Vienna, Austria. In the early 1960s, he was a student at the Academy of Music and V ...

References

External links

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Wolfgang Puschnig in SR-Archiv österreichischer Popularmusik
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