Peter Brötzmann Explained

Peter Brötzmann
Background:non_vocal_instrumentalist
Birth Date:6 March 1941
Birth Place:Remscheid, Germany
Death Place:Wuppertal, Germany
Genre:European free jazz, avant-garde jazz, free improvisation
Occupation:Musician
Instrument:Saxophone, clarinet, tárogató
Years Active:1967–2023
Past Member Of: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 central and pioneering figure in European free jazz.[1] Throughout his career, he released over fifty albums as a bandleader. Amongst his many collaborators were key figures in free jazz, including Derek Bailey, Anthony Braxton and Cecil Taylor, as well as experimental musicians such as Keiji Haino and Charles Hayward. His 1968 Machine Gun became "one of the landmark albums of 20th-century free jazz".

Biography

Life

Brötzmann was born in Remscheid on 6 March 1941.[2] [3] He studied painting in Wuppertal and was involved with the Fluxus movement[4] 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.[5] He was also inspired by Miles Davis and John Coltrane.

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.[2] 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.[2] In 1968, Machine Gun, an octet recording, was released.[2] 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. "Machine Gun" was a nickname Don Cherry gave him "to describe his violent style".

Brötzmann died on 22 June 2023, at the age of 82, at home in Wuppertal, Germany.[6] [7] [8]

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.[9]

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 in the woods.[6]

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.[10]

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.[6] [2]

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 also recorded or performed with Cecil Taylor, Keiji Haino, Willem van Manen, Mats Gustafsson, Ken Vandermark, Conny Bauer, Joe McPhee, Paal Nilssen-Love, with Oxbow,[11] and with Caspar Brötzmann, his son.[12]

Recordings

Recordings with Brötzmann as leader include:[13] [14]

With Han Bennink

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 Keiji Haino

With Fred Lonberg-Holm

With Last Exit

With Harry Miller

With Oxbow

With William Parker

With Steve Swell and Paal Nilssen-Love

With Fred Van Hove

With Sakari Luoma and Nikolai Yudanov

With Wild Man's Band

As sideman

With Frode Gjerstad

With Globe Unity Orchestra[58]

With others

Films

Two documentaries of Brötzmann's music were produced to honour Brötzmann's 70th birthday in 2011:[71]

Awards

Brötzmann received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2011 Vision Festival in New York City.[76] The same year, he was bestowed the German Jazz Award for his life's achievements.[77]

In 2021, Brötzmann and Nils Petter Molvær were awarded the European Film Awards for their music for the history drama Große Freiheit. In 2022 he received the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, described by the jury as a personality "going on an individual path, change listening and set new standards in avantgarde jazz" ("die ihren individuellen Weg ging, Hörgewohnheiten veränderte und Maßstäbe setzte im Avantgarde-Jazz").[78]

Books

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Eede . Christian . 23 June 2023 . The Quietus News Peter Brötzmann Has Died, Aged 82 . 24 June 2023 . The Quietus . en-us.
  2. Book: The Guinness Who's Who of Jazz. Colin Larkin. Guinness Publishing. 1992. First. 0-85112-580-8. 62/3.
  3. Web site: Chinen . Nate . . Peter Brötzmann, the heart — and lungs — of European free jazz, dead at 82 . 23 June 2023 . 29 June 2023.
  4. Web site: Brötzmann Reflects on 'Machine Gun' as it Hits 50th Anniversary . Downbeat.com . Jones . Andrew . 21 June 2018 . 24 June 2020.
  5. Web site: Dacks, David. Peter Brötzmann Web Interview. Exclaim! Magazine . 2007 . 23 October 2007. dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071013061816/http://exclaim.ca/articles/multiarticlesub.aspx?csid1=115&csid2=946&fid1=27960 . 13 October 2007.
  6. News: Beaumont-Thomas . Ben . 23 June 2023 . Peter Brötzmann, legend of free jazz, dies at 82 . . 23 June 2023.
  7. News: Weber . Julian . 23 June 2023 . Freejazzsaxofonist Peter Brötzmann gestorben: Sie nannten ihn Machine Gun . de . Die Tageszeitung: taz . 23 June 2023 . 0931-9085.
  8. News: Sandner . Wolfgang Sandner . Der sanfte Wüterich . . 23 June 2023 . de . 24 June 2023.
  9. Web site: Whitehead . Kevin . The History of the Instant Composers Pool Orchestra . ICP Orchestra . 13 January 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150215042845/http://icporchestra.com/history.htm. 15 February 2015.
  10. Web site: Peter Brötzmann – Alarm . Jazz Music Archives . 5 January 2023.
  11. https://www.freejazzblog.org: Peter Brötzmann & Oxbow at Moers Festival 2018
  12. Web site: Strauss . Matthew . 23 June 2023 . Peter Brötzmann, Free Jazz Saxophonist, Dies at 82 . 24 June 2023 . Pitchfork . en-US.
  13. Web site: Peter Brötzmann . . 28 June 2023.
  14. Web site: Grade List: Peter Brotzmann . tomhull.com . 28 June 2023.
  15. Web site: Peter Brötzmann: Solo . Brian . Olewnick . AllMusic . 4 July 2023.
  16. Web site: Peter Brötzmann: Réservé . Thom . Jurek . AllMusic . 4 July 2023.
  17. Web site: Peter Brötzmann: The Marz Combo Live in Wuppertal . Jazz Music Archives . September 24, 2023.
  18. Web site: The Atlanta Concert (ODL10006 vinyl LP) . OkkaDisc . October 18, 2023.
  19. Web site: Peter Brötzmann: Lost & Found . Jazz Music Archives . 4 July 2023.
  20. Web site: Peter Brötzmann – Mental Shake . Jazz Music Archives . October 18, 2023.
  21. Web site: Han Bennink / Peter Brötzmann: Ein Halber Hund Kann Nicht Pinkeln . AllMusic . 2 July 2023.
  22. Web site: FMP 0440: Schwarzwaldfahrt: Brötzmann/Bennink . FMP . 30 June 2023.
  23. Web site: Peter Brötzmann: Still Quite Popular After All Those Years . Jazz Music Archives . November 11, 2023.
  24. Web site: FMP CD 64 / Die Like a Dog: Fragments of music, life and death of Albert Ayler / Brötzmann/Kondo/Parker/Drake . FMP . 30 June 2023.
  25. Web site: FMP CD 97 / Little Birds Have Fast Hearts No. 1 / Peter Brötzmann / Die Like A Dog Quartet . FMP . 30 June 2023.
  26. Web site: FMP CD 101 / Little Birds Have Fast Hearts No. 1 / Peter Brötzmann / Die Like A Dog Quartet . FMP . 30 June 2023.
  27. Web site: Peter Brötzmann Die Like A Dog Quartet: From Valley To Valley . Eremite Records . 30 June 2023.
  28. Web site: FMP CD 118 / Aoyama Crows / Peter Brötzmann / Die Like A Dog Quartet . FMP . 30 June 2023.
  29. Web site: Die Like a Dog Quartet – The Complete FMP Recordings . Jazz Music Archives . October 18, 2023.
  30. Web site: Die Like a Dog Quartet – Close Up . Jazz Music Archives . October 18, 2023.
  31. Web site: The Dried Rat-Dog (OD12004) . OkkaDisc . 30 June 2023.
  32. Web site: Live at the Empty Bottle (ODL10005) . OkkaDisc . 30 June 2023.
  33. Web site: The Wels Concert (OD12013) . OkkaDisc . 30 June 2023.
  34. Web site: Peter Brötzmann, Hamid Drake, Maallem Mokhtar Gania – The Catch of a Ghost . Jazz Music Archives . 30 June 2023.
  35. Web site: BEA-001: Peter Brötzmann, Milford Graves, William Parker: Historic Music Past Tense Future . Black Editions Group . June 30, 2023.
  36. Web site: |title=Peter Brötzmann – Keiji Haino – Evolving Blush or Driving Original Sin |website=Jazz Music Archives |access-date=November 10, 2023.
  37. Web site: Peter Brötzmann/Keiji Haino: The intellect given birth to here (eternity) is too young . Jazz Music Archives . November 10, 2023.
  38. Web site: Peter Brötzmann – The Brain of the Dog in Section . Jazz Music Archives . 2 July 2023.
  39. Web site: Peter Brötzmann – Ouroboros . Jazz Music Archives . 2 July 2023.
  40. Web site: Peter Brötzmann – Memories of a Tunicate . Jazz Music Archives . 2 July 2023.
  41. Greg . Kot . Last Exit . . 2007 . 17 October 2014.
  42. Web site: Nicholson . Stuart . Last Exit "The Noise of Trouble" — Forgotten Jazz Classics . stuartnicholson.uk . 30 June 2023.
  43. Web site: Brötzmann / Miller / Moholo: The Nearer the Bone, The Sweeter the Meat . Cien Fuegos Records . 8 June 2023.
  44. Web site: Brötzmann / Miller / Moholo: Opened, But Hardly Touched . Cien Fuegos Records . 8 June 2023.
  45. Web site: Peter Brötzmann/Hamid Drake/William Parker: Never Too Late But Always Too Early (Dedicated to Peter Kowald) . Eremite Records . June 30, 2023.
  46. Web site: Peter Brötzmann – Krakow Nights . Jazz Music Archives . 2 July 2023.
  47. Web site: Peter Brötzmann – Live in Copenhagen . Jazz Music Archives . 2 July 2023.
  48. Web site: Peter Brötzmann – Live in Tel Aviv . Jazz Music Archives . 2 July 2023.
  49. Web site: Peter Brötzmann: Balls . Jazz Music Archives . November 6, 2023.
  50. Web site: Peter Brötzmann: The End . AllMusic . 2 July 2023.
  51. Web site: Peter Brötzmann: Elements . Jazz Music Archives . November 6, 2023.
  52. Web site: Peter Brötzmann: FMP 130 . Jazz Music Archives . November 6, 2023.
  53. Web site: Peter Brötzmann discgoraphies . April 10, 2023 . Peter Brötzmann.
  54. Web site: Frode Gjerstad and Peter Brötzmann – Invisible Touch . Jazz Music Archives . October 18, 2023.
  55. Web site: Frode Gjerstad Trio with Peter Brötzmann – Sharp Knives Cut Deeper . Jazz Music Archives . October 18, 2023.
  56. Web site: Frode Gjerstad / Peter Brötzmann – Soria Moria . Jazz Music Archives . October 18, 2023.
  57. Web site: Frode Gjerstad Trio + Peter Brötzmann – Live At The Empty Bottle . Jazz Music Archives . October 18, 2023.
  58. Web site: Globe Unity Orchestra discography . JazzLists . 30 June 2023.
  59. Web site: Ginger Baker Goes Absolutely Wild on No Material . Roz . Milner . June 9, 2016 . Bearded Gentlemen Music . 23 May 2023.
  60. Web site: Ginger Baker's No Material: Live in Munich, Germany 1987 . Sean . Westergaard . AllMusic . 4 July 2023.
  61. Encyclopedia: Jenkins . Todd S. . Brötzmann, Peter . Free Jazz and Free Improvisation: An Encyclopedia . 2004 . Greenwood . 1 . 65 . 9780313333149 . Google Books.
  62. Web site: Don Cherry/Kryzystof Penderecki Actions Review . Ian R. . Watson . 2002 . . 15 August 2022.
  63. Web site: Lopez . Rick . Marilyn Crispell Sessionography . 30 June 2023.
  64. Web site: FMP 1000: Andrew Cyrille meets Peter Brötzmann in Berlin: Brötzmann/Cyrille Duo . FMP . 30 June 2023.
  65. Web site: Laboratorio Musicale Suono C + Peter Brotzmann: DEcomposition . percorsimusicali.eu . 23 May 2016 . 31 August 2023 .
  66. Web site: All About Jazz Review . allaboutjazz.com . 2 August 2007 . 30 June 2023 .
  67. Web site: Evan Parker: America 2003 & The Bishop's Move . Andrey . Henkin . 10 December 2004 . All About Jazz . 7 January 2023.
  68. Web site: Manfred Schoof – European Echoes . Jazz Music Archives . September 23, 2023.
  69. Web site: Alms/Tiergarten (Spree) . . 30 June 2023 .
  70. Web site: Cecil Taylor: Olu Iwa . Wynn . Ron . . 24 March 2021.
  71. Web site: Eyal Hareuveni's Best Releases of 2011 . allaboutjazz . 2023 . 29 June 2023.
  72. News: Marmande . Francis . Peter Brötzmann, un flot, un flux, un torrent . . 12 November 2012 . fr . 29 June 2023.
  73. Web site: Jazz Index: Peter Brötzmann . jazzinstitut.de . 13 August 2014 . 29 June 2023.
  74. Web site: Team . siegersbusch.de . 2023 . de . 29 June 2023.
  75. Web site: Quarterly Critic's Choice . schallplattenkritik.de . October 2011 . 29 June 2023.
  76. News: Peter Brotzmann Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award at Vision Festival . . 13 June 2011.
  77. News: Albert Mangelsdorff-Preis 2011 für Peter Brötzmann . . 26 August 2015 . 28 June 2023 . de.
  78. News: Ehrenpreise 2022 . . 2 November 2022 . de.

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