German Clarinet Duo was a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 clarinet

Clarinet

The clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...

 duo with Theo Jörgensmann

Theo Jörgensmann

Theodor Franz Jörgensmann is a jazz and free-improvising Basset clarinet player and composer. He has been a professional musician since 1975.-Activities:...

, clarinet and Eckard Koltermann, bass clarinet

Bass clarinet

The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common soprano B clarinet, it is usually pitched in B , but it plays notes an octave below the soprano B clarinet...

. The duo formed in 1984 and existed until 1998. The duo explores the synthesis of composition and improvisation.

Collaborations

German Clarinet Duo have collaborated with several other artists, including Karoly Binder

Károly Binder

Károly Binder is a great Hungarian jazz pianist and composer. He is the head of the jazz department at the Music Teachers Training Institute of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest...

, Maria de Alvear

Maria de Alvear

Maria de Alvear is a Spanish-German composer living in Germany who was born to Spanish father and German mother.-References:*- External links :* * *...

, Willem van Manen's Contraband

Contraband (big band)

Contraband is a progressive big band that formed in the 1980s led by trombonist Willem van Manen, recording exclusively for the BVHaast record label. The ensemble often combines free improvisation with swing...

 or with Kenny Wheeler

Kenny Wheeler

Kenneth Vincent John Wheeler, OC is a Canadian composer and trumpet and flugelhorn player, based in the U.K. since the 1950s....

 and Orkest de Volharding

Orkest de Volharding

Orkest de Volharding is a Dutch music ensemble, founded in 1972 by Louis Andriessen and saxophonist Willem Breuker, named after the eponymous Andriessen work. The line up for the original concert, on May 12, 1972, was three each of trumpets saxes and trombones, plus Andriessen on the piano...

  from Netherlands.

Discography

• Schwarzlicht released 1988
• Materialized Perception with Perry Robinson
  Perry Robinson
  Perry Morris Robinson is an American jazz clarinetist and composer. He is the son of the noted composer Earl Robinson. -Biography:...
  
   released 1992
• Hommage a Jimmy Giuffre released 1994
• T. Jörgensmann/E. Koltermann Pagine Gialle
  Pagine Gialle (Album)
  -Track listing:#Pagine Gialle, Pt. 1 - 9:31#Pagine Gialle, Pt. 2 - 15:37#Pagine Gialle, Pt. 3 - 11:32#Pagine Gialle, Pt. 4 - 9:08#Pagine Gialle, Pt. 5 - 5:35-Personnel:*Theo Jörgensmann - clarinet...
  
  , recorded 1995; released 2001 (Hathut Records
  Hathut Records
  Hathut Records is a Swiss record label specialising in jazz and contemporary classical music.Founded in 1975 by Werner X. Uehlinger to document the work of saxophonist / trumpeter Joe McPhee...
  
  )