Peter Brötzmann

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Peter Brötzmann
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Brötzmann playing in 2010
Background information
Born (1941-03-06)6 March 1941
Remscheid, Germany
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Wuppertal, Germany
Genres European free jazz, avant-garde jazz, free improvisation
Occupation(s) Musician
Instruments Saxophone, clarinet, tárogató
Years active 1967–2023
Associated acts Globe Unity Orchestra, Peter Kowald, Cecil Taylor, Last Exit, Derek Bailey, William Parker, Die Like a Dog Quartet, Sven-Åke Johansson, Evan Parker, Buschi Niebergall, Fred Van Hove, Han Bennink, Willem Breuker, Paal Nilssen-Love, John Zorn

Peter Brötzmann (6 March 1941 – 22 June 2023) was a German jazz saxophonist and clarinetist regarded as a pioneering and central figure in European free jazz.[1][2] Throughout his career he released over fifty albums as a bandleader.[3] Amongst his many collaborators were key figures in free jazz including Derek Bailey (guitarist), Anthony Braxton and Cecil Taylor as well as experimental musicians such as Keiji Haino and Charles Hayward.[1][3]

Biography

Life

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Brötzmann in 1979
Brötzman in Aarhus 2015
Brötzmann on tenor saxophone, Minnesota Sur Seine, 2006
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Brötzmann at the Sonore concert, Lviv, December 2008
Brötzmann in 2011

Brötzmann was born in Remscheid on 6 March 1941.[4] He studied painting in Wuppertal and was involved with the Fluxus movement[5] but grew dissatisfied with art galleries and exhibitions. He experienced his first jazz concert when he saw American jazz musician Sidney Bechet while still in school at Wuppertal, and it made a lasting impression.[6]

Brötzmann had not abandoned his art training, designing most of his album covers. He taught himself to play clarinet and saxophone, and is also known for playing the tárogató.[4] Among his first musical partnerships was with double bassist Peter Kowald. For Adolphe Sax, Brötzmann's first recording, was released in 1967 and featured Kowald and drummer Sven-Åke Johansson.[4] In 1968, Machine Gun, an octet recording, was released.[4] The album was self-produced under his BRO record label imprint and sold at concerts, and later marketed by FMP. In 2007 Atavistic reissued Machine Gun.[6]

Brötzmann died on 22 June 2023, at the age of 82, at home in Wuppertal, Germany.[7][1]

Career

The album Nipples was recorded in 1969 with many of the Machine Gun musicians, including drummer Han Bennink, pianist Fred Van Hove, tenor saxophonist Evan Parker, and British guitarist Derek Bailey. The second set of takes from these sessions, 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. 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.[8]

The logistics of touring with the ICP tentet or his octet resulted in Brötzmann reducing the group to a trio with Han Bennink 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 Willem Breuker (saxophones), Toshinori Kondo (trumpet), Hannes Bauer and Alan Tomlinson (trombones), Alexander von Schlippenbach (piano), Louis Moholo (drums), and Harry Miller (bass). This was released as the album Alarm.

In the 1980s, Brötzmann's music was influenced by heavy metal and noise rock. He was a member of Last Exit and recorded music with the band's bass guitarist and producer Bill Laswell.[4]

Brötzmann released over fifty albums as a bandleader and appeared on dozens more. His "Die Like a Dog Quartet" (with Toshinori Kondo, William Parker, and drummer Hamid Drake) was loosely inspired by saxophonist Albert Ayler, a prime influence on Brötzmann's music. Beginning in 1997, he 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 had also recorded or performed with Cecil Taylor, Keiji Haino, Willem van Manen, Mats Gustafsson, Ken Vandermark, Conny Bauer, Joe McPhee, Paal Nilssen-Love, and Brötzmann's son, Caspar Brötzmann.

Discography

As leader

  • For Adolphe Sax (Brö, 1967)
  • Machine Gun (Brö, 1968)
  • Nipples (Calig, 1969)
  • Solo (FMP, 1976)
  • 3 Points and a Mountain with Misha Mengelberg (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 (FMP, 1989)
  • No Nothing (FMP, 1991)
  • The Marz Combo Live in Wuppertal (FMP, 1993)
  • Songlines with Fred Hopkins and Rashied Ali (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 Fred Hopkins (Okka Disk, 2001)
  • Right as Rain (FMP, 2001)
  • Fuck de Boere (Atavistic, 2001)
  • Organized Chaos with Nicky Skopelitis (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 Lisle Ellis (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 Paal Nilssen-Love (Smalltown Superjazzz, 2007)
  • SweetSweat with Paal Nilssen-Love (Smalltown Superjazzz, 2008)
  • At Molde 2007 (Okka Disk, 2008)
  • Hairy Bones with Toshinori Kondo (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 Jörg Fischer (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 (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 Han Bennink

  • 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

With Hamid Drake

With Mahmoud Guinia and Hamid Drake

With Moukhtar Gania and Hamid Drake

With Milford Graves and William Parker

With Fred Lonberg-Holm

With Last Exit

With Harry Miller

With William Parker

With Steve Swell

  • 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

  • Invisible Touch (Cadence, 1999)
  • Sharp Knives Cut Deeper (Splasc(H), 2003)
  • Soria Moria (FMR, 2003)
  • Live at the Empty Bottle (Circulasione Totale 2019)

With Globe Unity Orchestra

  • 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

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)

Further reading

Peter Brötzmann, We thought we could change the world. Conversations with Gérard Rouy. Wolke Verlag, Hofheim 2014. ISBN 978-3-95593-047-9.

References

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