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Biography
Infobox musical artist|name = Peter Brötzmann|image = Peter-broetzmann.jpg|caption = Peter Brötzmann at Avant Jazz, Jazz Club 'Die Röhre', Moers/Germany, 12 February 2006|image_size =|background = non_vocal_instrumentalist|birth_name =|alias =|birth_date = Birth date and age|1941|3|6|df=y|birth_place = Remscheid , Germany |origin =|instrument = saxophone tárogató clarinet |genre = jazz , free jazz , free improvisation |occupation = jazz saxophone|saxophonist |years_active = Late 60s to present|label =|associated_acts =|website = Peter Brötzmann (born 6 March 1941) is a Germany|German artist and free jazz saxophonist and clarinetist .
Brötzmann is among the most important European free jazz musicians. His rough timbre is easily recognized on his many recordings.
Biography
Early life
He studied painting in Wuppertal and was involved with the Fluxus movementcitation needed|date=April 2012, but grew dissatisfied with art galleries and exhibitions. He experienced his first real jazz concert when he saw American jazz musician Sidney Bechet while still in school at Wuppertal, and it made a lasting impression.cite web | author= Dacks,David | title= Peter Brötzmann Web Interview | url= http://www.exclaim.ca/articles/multiarticlesub.aspx? csid1=115& csid2=946& fid1=27960| work = Exclaim& #33; Magazine | year=2007| accessdate=2007-10-23
He has not abandoned his art training, however: Brötzmann has designed most of his own album covers. He first taught himself to play various clarinet s, then saxophone s; he is also known for playing the tárogató . Among his first musical partnerships was that with double bass ist Peter Kowald .
For Adolphe Sax , Brötzmann's first recording, was released in 1967 and featured Kowald and drummer Sven-Ĺke Johansson .
1968, the year of political turmoil in Europe, saw the release of Machine Gun (Brötzmann album)|Machine Gun , an octet (music)|octet recording often listed among the most notable free jazz albums. Originally the LP was self-produced (under his own "BRO" record label imprint) and sold at gigs, but it was later marketed by FMP Records|Free Music Production (FMP) , In 2007, Chicago-based Atavistic Records reissued the Machine Gun recording.cite web | author= Doole, Kerry | title= Peter Brötzmann Web Interview | url= http://www.exclaim.ca/articles/multiarticlesub.aspx? csid1=115& csid2=946& fid1=27960| work = Exclaim& #33; Magazine | year=2007| accessdate=2007-10-23
Career
The album Nipples was recorded in 1969 with many of the Machine Gun musicians including drummer Han Bennink , pianist Fred Van Hove and tenor saxophonist Evan Parker , plus British free-improv guitarist Derek Bailey (guitarist)|Derek Bailey . The second set of takes from these sessions, appropriately called More Nipples , is more raucous. Fuck De Boere (Dedicated to Johnny Dyani ) 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.
The logistical difficulties of touring with an octet resulted in Brötzmann eventually slimming the group to a trio with Han Bennink and Fred Van Hove. Bennink was also partner in Schwarzwaldfahrt an album of duets recorded outside in the Black Forest in 1977 with Brötzmann's sax and Bennink drumming on trees and other objects found in the woods.
Larger groups were put together again later, for example in 1981 Brötzmann made a radio broadcast with Frank Wright (jazz musician)|Frank Wright and Willem Breuker (saxes), Toshinori Kondo (trumpet), Hannes Bauer and Alan Tomlinson (trombones), Alexander von Schlippenbach (piano), Louis Moholo (drums), Harry Miller (jazz bassist)|Harry Miller (bass). This was released as the album Alarm .
In the 1980s, Brötzmann flirted with heavy metal (music)|heavy metal and noise rock , including a stint in Last Exit (free jazz band)|Last Exit and subsequent recordings with Last Exit's bass guitarist and producer Bill Laswell .
Brötzmann has remained active, touring and recording regularly. He has released over fifty albums as a bandleader, and has appeared on dozens more. His "Die Like A Dog Quartet" (with Toshinori Kondo , William Parker (musician)|William Parker and drummer Hamid Drake ) is loosely inspired by saxophonist Albert Ayler , a prime influence on Brötzmann's music. Since 1997 he has toured and recorded regularly with the Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet (initially an Octet).
Brötzmann has also recorded or performed with musicians including Cecil Taylor , Keiji Haino , Willem van Manen , Mats Gustafsson , Ken Vandermark , Conny Bauer , Joe McPhee and Brötzmann's son, Caspar Brötzmann , a notable guitarist in his own right.
Discography
Brötzmann has an extensive portfolio, and has appeared on well over 100 albums. http://www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/mbrotzm.html Interviews, discographies... http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/peter_brotzmann Listed below is his discography, arranged by albums which he has released under his name as a leader or as Solo Saxophone Recordings and Performance|a solo effort , specifically named bands he has been in, collaborations with other artists with whom he has released albums under distinct monikers, and finally, albums on which he has performed as a sideman. Several of the collaborations were one-off live shows, yielding only a single album release, as seen below.
BRÖTZMANN, Filmproduktion Siegersbusch, documentary film by René Jeuckens, Thomas Mau and Grischa Windus (Cinema, DVD, D/UK 2011)
References
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External links
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http://www.peterbroetzmann.com/index2.php Official website
http://www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/mbrotzm.html Interviews, discographies and photographs
http://www.fmp-label.de/freemusicproduction/musiker/broetzmann.html Projects, releases and photographs
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