European Jazz Ensemble
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Formed in 1976. The original members comprised the quintet, Alan SkidmoreAlan Skidmore
Alan Skidmore is a tenor saxophonist of jazz and blues music, son of the saxophonist Jimmy Skidmore.-As a sideman:...
, Leszek Zadlo, Gerd Dudek
Gerd Dudek
Gerd Dudek is a German jazz tenor saxophonist, soprano saxophonist, clarinetist and flautist.Dudek studied clarinet privately and attended music school in the 1950s before joining a big band led by his brother Ossi until 1958...
, Ali Haurand and Pierre Courbois
Pierre Courbois
Sir Pierre Courbois is a Dutch jazz-drummer, bandleader and composer.After studying percussion at the Hogeschool der Kunsten in Arnhem, Courbois left for Paris, the center of Jazz in Europe in the early 1960s...
. After 1982 three of the members quit and Haurand and Dudek were joined by E. L. Petrowsky, Allan Botschinsky
Allan Botschinsky
Allan Botschinsky is a Danish jazz trumpeter.Botschinsky's father played bassoon professionally. He began on trumpet at age 11 and at 14 began studying at the Royal Danish Conservatorium...
, Manfred Schoof
Manfred Schoof
Manfred Schoof is a German jazz trumpet player.He studied music in Kassel and Cologne.He is a founder of European free jazz and collaborated with Albert Mangelsdorff, Peter Brötzmann, Mal Waldron, and Irène Schweizer...
, Rob van den Broeck and Anthony Oxley.At the time of the twelfth anniversary tour the members were joined by Enrico Rava, Philip Catherine, Uschi Brüning and Louis Scalvis.In 1991 with Joachim Kühn also,the ensemble met he Khan Family from India.1996 saw the twentieth anniversary of the ensembles creation and Charlie Mariano
Charlie Mariano
Carmine Ugo Mariano was an American jazz alto saxophonist. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and died in Cologne, Germany.-Biography:Mariano was the son of Italian immigrants....
, Joachim Kühn
Joachim Kühn
-Biography:Kühn was a musical prodigy and made his debut as a concert pianist, having studied classical piano and composition with Arthur Schmidt-Elsey. Influenced by his elder brother, clarinetist Rolf Kühn, he simultaneously got interested in jazz. In 1961 he became a professional jazz musician....
, Enrico Rava
Enrico Rava
Enrico Rava , is a prolific jazz trumpeter and arguably one of the best known Italian jazz musicians. He originally played trombone, changing to the trumpet after hearing Miles Davis. His first commercial work was as a member of Gato Barbieri's Italian quintet in the mid-1960s; in the late 1960s...
, Conny Bauer
Conny Bauer
Konrad "Conny" Bauer is a free jazz trombonist. He is the brother of the trombonist Hannes Bauer....
, Jiri Stivin
Jirí Stivín
Jiří Stivín is a Czech flute player and composer.He graduated from the Film Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague . He also studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music as well as at the Prague Academy of Music .Stivín performs music from the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and...
, Daniel Humair
Daniel Humair
Daniel Humair is a drummer, jazz composer and painter.He is widely renowned and became Chevalier des Arts et Lettres in 1986.He has played with many jazz performers notably Martial Solal, Gerry Mulligan and Eric Dolphy....
, Tony Lakatos and Rolf Kühn
Rolf Kühn
Rolf Kühn . is a jazz clarinetist and saxophonist.He lived in the United States from 1956–59 and drew favourable reviews, for example a comparison with Benny Goodman by John H. Hammond....
participated by invitation,for the ensembles tour to mark this anniversary. Their thirtieth anniversary tour began in March at Heek
Heek
Heek can refer to:*Heek, Germany, a municipality in western Germany.* Heek , a village in the Netherlands...
, Landesmusikakademie,toured briefly around Germany,with one date in the Netherlands before concluding in Paris in the same month that it commenced.
Current membership
The current members comprise :Stan Sulzmann
Stan Sulzmann
Stanley Ernest Sulzmann is an English jazz saxophonist.Sulzmann began on saxophone at age 13 and played in Bill Ashton's London Youth Jazz Orchestra, later the National Youth Jazz Orchestra. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music from 1969-1972...
(tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone),
Gerd Dudek (tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone),
Jiří Stivín (flute, alto saxophone),
Alan Botschinsky (trumpet, flugelhorn),
Jarmo Hoogendijk (trumpet),
Manfred Schoof (trumpet, flugelhorn),
Alan Skidmore (tenor saxophone),
Charlie Mariano (alto saxophone),
Konrad Bauer (trombone),
Pino Minafra
Pino Minafra
Pino Minafra is an Italian trumpeter and flugelhorn player who is associated with free improvisation, avant-garde jazz. A founding member of the Italian Instabile Orchestra, Minafra has recorded with such musicians as Gianluigi Trovesi, Mario Schiano, Han Bennink, Ernst Reijseger, Willem Breuker...
(trumpet, flugelhorn, megaphone, didgeridoo),
Rob van den Broeck (piano),
Joachim Kühn (piano),
Ali Haurand (bass),
Sébastien Boisseau (bass),
Daniel Humair (drums),
Tony Levin
Tony Levin (drummer)
Tony Levin was an English jazz drummer.Levin played at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in the 1960s with artists including Joe Harriott, Al Cohn, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Zoot Sims, and Toots Thielemanns....
(drums)