Peter Brötzmann
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Peter Brötzmann is 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...

 artist and free jazz
Free jazz
Free jazz is an approach to jazz music that was first developed in the 1950s and 1960s. Though the music produced by free jazz pioneers varied widely, the common feature was a dissatisfaction with the limitations of bebop, hard bop, and modal jazz, which had developed in the 1940s and 1950s...

 saxophonist and clarinetist.

Brötzmann is among the most important European free jazz
European free jazz
European free jazz is a part of the global free jazz scene with its own development and characteristics. It is hard to establish who are the founders of European free jazz because of the different developments in different European countries...

 musicians. His rough, lyrical timbre
Timbre
In music, timbre is the quality of a musical note or sound or tone that distinguishes different types of sound production, such as voices and musical instruments, such as string instruments, wind instruments, and percussion instruments. The physical characteristics of sound that determine the...

 is easily recognized on his many recordings.

Early life

He studied painting
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

 in Wuppertal
Wuppertal
Wuppertal is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in and around the Wupper river valley, and is situated east of the city of Düsseldorf and south of the Ruhr area. With a population of approximately 350,000, it is the largest city in the Bergisches Land...

 and was involved with the Fluxus
Fluxus
Fluxus—a name taken from a Latin word meaning "to flow"—is an international network of artists, composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s. They have been active in Neo-Dada noise music and visual art as well as literature, urban planning,...

 movement, but grew dissatisfied with art galleries and exhibitions. He experienced his first real jazz concert when he saw American jazz musician Sidney Bechet
Sidney Bechet
Sidney Bechet was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer.He was one of the first important soloists in jazz , and was perhaps the first notable jazz saxophonist...

 while still in school at Wuppertal, and it made a lasting impression.

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
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...

s, then saxophone
Saxophone
The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...

s; he is also known for playing the tárogató
Tárogató
The tárogató refers to two different Hungarian woodwind instruments: the ancient tárogató and the modern tárogató...

. Among his first musical partnerships was that with double bass
Double bass
The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...

ist Peter Kowald
Peter Kowald
Peter Kowald was a German free jazz musician.A member of the Globe Unity Orchestra, and a touring double-bass player, Kowald collaborated with a large number of European free jazz and American free-jazz players during his career, including Peter Brötzmann, Irène Schweizer, Karl Berger, Fred...

.

For Adolphe Sax
For Adolphe Sax
For Adolphe Sax is the first album by free jazz saxophonist Peter Brötzmann, released on his own Brö label in 1967. It was reissued on LP by FMP and then much later on CD by the Atavistic label in 2002. This reissue featured the added track "Everything"...

, Brötzmann's first recording, was released in 1967 and featured Kowald and drummer Sven-Åke Johansson
Sven-Åke Johansson
Sven-Åke Johansson is a Swedish drummer and composer associated with free jazz and free improvisation. He was in the Globe Unity Orchestra and played with German reedist Alfred Harth and Belgian pianist Nicole Van den Plas in E.M.T..- External links :*...

.

1968, the year of political turmoil in Europe, saw the release of Machine Gun
Machine Gun (Brötzmann album)
Machine Gun is the second album by jazz saxophonist Peter Brötzmann, released on the Bro label in 1968, later reissued on the FMP label in 1971. In 1990 FMP issued the album on CD, adding two previously unreleased alternate takes...

, an octet
Octet (music)
In music, an octet is a musical ensemble consisting of eight instruments or voices, or a musical composition written for such an ensemble.-Octets in classical music:Octets in classical music are one of the largest groupings of chamber music...

 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 Free Music Production (FMP), In 2007, Chicago-based Atavistic Records
Atavistic Records
Atavistic Records is an American rock and jazz record label based in Chicago, Illinois, known particularly for its No Wave and free jazz recordings. It has released albums by Glenn Branca, Nels Cline, Lydia Lunch, Peter Brötzmann, various Ken Vandermark projects, Pinetop Seven, Swans, Elliott...

 reissued the Machine Gun recording.

Career

The album Nipples was recorded in 1969 with many of the Machine Gun musicians including drummer Han Bennink
Han Bennink
Han Bennink is a Dutch jazz drummer and percussionist. On occasion his recordings have featured his playing on clarinet, violin, banjo and piano....

, pianist Fred Van Hove
Fred Van Hove
Fred Van Hove is a Belgian jazz musician and a pioneer of European free jazz. He is a pianist, accordionist, church organist, and carillonist, an improviser and a composer...

 and tenor saxophonist Evan Parker
Evan Parker
Evan Shaw Parker is a British free-improvising saxophone player from the European free jazz scene.Recording and performing prolifically with many collaborators, Parker was a pivotal figure in the development of European free jazz and free improvisation, and has pioneered or substantially expanded...

, plus British free-improv 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
Johnny Dyani
Johnny Mbizo Dyani was a South African jazz double bassist and pianist, who played with such musicians as Don Cherry, Steve Lacy, David Murray and Leo Smith....

) 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
Han Bennink
Han Bennink is a Dutch jazz drummer and percussionist. On occasion his recordings have featured his playing on clarinet, violin, banjo and piano....

 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
Frank Wright (jazz musician)
Frank Wright was a free jazz musician known for his frantic style of tenor saxophone.Wright was born in Grenada, Mississippi. He was originally a bass player, working with B. B. King and Bobby "Blue" Bland among others....

 and Willem Breuker
Willem Breuker
Willem Breuker was a Dutch jazz bandleader, composer, arranger, saxophonist, and bass clarinetist....

 (saxes), Toshinori Kondo
Toshinori Kondo
Toshinori Kondo is an avant-garde jazz and jazz fusion trumpeter. He resides in Tokyo, New York City, and Amsterdam....

 (trumpet), Hannes Bauer
Hannes Bauer
Johannes "Hannes" Bauer is a trombonist of improvised music and free jazz from Germany. He is the brother of the trombonist Conny BauerSince 1979 he works as a freelance musician. He lives in Berlin....

 and Alan Tomlinson (trombones), Alexander von Schlippenbach
Alexander von Schlippenbach
Alexander von Schlippenbach is a German jazz pianist and composer.-Biography:...

 (piano), Louis Moholo
Louis Moholo
Louis Tebugo Moholo , is a South African jazz drummer.He formed The Blue Notes with Chris McGregor, Johnny Dyani, Nikele Moyake, Mongezi Feza and Dudu Pukwana, and emigrated to Europe with them in 1964, eventually settling in London, where he formed part of a South African exile community that made...

 (drums), Harry Miller
Harry Miller (jazz bassist)
Harold Simon 'Harry' Miller was a South African jazz bass player.Miller began his career as a bassist with Manfred Mann, and came to settle in London...

 (bass). This was released as the album Alarm.

In the 1980s, Brötzmann flirted with heavy metal and noise rock
Noise rock
Noise rock describes a style of post-punk rock music that became prominent in the 1980s. Noise rock makes use of the traditional instrumentation and iconography of rock, but incorporates atonality and especially dissonance, and also frequently discards usual songwriting conventions.-Style:Noise...

, including a stint in Last Exit
Last Exit (Free jazz band)
Last Exit was a free jazz supergroup composed of electric guitarist Sonny Sharrock, drummer/occasional vocalist Ronald Shannon Jackson, saxophonist Peter Brötzmann, and bass guitarist Bill Laswell. They were active from 1986 to the early 1990s, releasing primarily live albums recorded in Europe...

 and subsequent recordings with Last Exit's bass guitarist and producer Bill Laswell
Bill Laswell
Bill Laswell is an American bassist, producer and record label owner....

.

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
Toshinori Kondo
Toshinori Kondo is an avant-garde jazz and jazz fusion trumpeter. He resides in Tokyo, New York City, and Amsterdam....

, William Parker
William Parker (musician)
William Parker is an American free jazz double bassist, poet and composer.-Biography:Parker was not formally trained as a classical player, though he did study with Jimmy Garrison, Richard Davis, and Wilbur Ware and learned the tradition. Parker is one of few jazz bassists who regularly plays arco...

 and drummer Hamid Drake
Hamid Drake
Hamid Drake is an American jazz drummer and percussionist. He lives in Chicago, IL but spends much of his time traveling around the world for concerts and studio dates....

) is loosely inspired by saxophonist Albert Ayler
Albert Ayler
Albert Ayler was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist, singer and composer.Ayler was among the most primal of the free jazz musicians of the 1960s; critic John Litweiler wrote that "never before or since has there been such naked aggression in jazz" He possessed a deep blistering tone—achieved...

, 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
Cecil Taylor
Cecil Percival Taylor is an American pianist and poet. Classically trained, Taylor is generally acknowledged as one of the pioneers of free jazz. His music is characterized by an extremely energetic, physical approach, producing complex improvised sounds, frequently involving tone clusters and...

, Keiji Haino
Keiji Haino
Keiji Haino born May 3, 1952 in Chiba, Japan, and currently residing in Tokyo, is a Japanese musician whose work has included rock, free improvisation, noise, singer-songwriter, solo percussion, psychedelic, minimalism and drone styles...

, Willem van Manen, Mats Gustafsson
Mats Gustafsson
Mats Olof Gustafsson is a Swedish saxophone player and a stalwart on the Scandinavian free jazz scene. He is known for his tonal belligerence and intensity when improvising....

, Ken Vandermark
Ken Vandermark
Ken Vandermark is an American jazz composer and saxophone and clarinet player.A fixture on the Chicago-area music scene since the 1990s, Vandermark has earned wide critical praise for his playing and his multilayered compositions, which typically balance intricate orchestration with passionate...

, Conny Bauer
Conny Bauer
Konrad "Conny" Bauer is a free jazz trombonist. He is the brother of the trombonist Hannes Bauer....

, Joe McPhee
Joe McPhee
Joe McPhee is an American jazz multi-instrumentalist born in Miami, Florida, a player of tenor, alto, and soprano saxophone, the trumpet, flugelhorn and valve trombone...

 and Brötzmann's son, Caspar Brötzmann
Caspar Brötzmann
Caspar Brötzmann is an electric guitar player.While Brötzmann typically performs with the power trio lineup of Caspar Brötzmann Massaker , with guitar, bass guitar and drum set, he only uses rock and roll and heavy metal music as a basis for his music...

, a notable guitarist in his own right.

Discography

Brötzmann has an extensive portfolio, and has appeared on well over 100 albums. Listed below is his discography, arranged by albums which he has released under his name as a leader or as 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 as a leader, and solo releases

  • For Adolphe Sax
    For Adolphe Sax
    For Adolphe Sax is the first album by free jazz saxophonist Peter Brötzmann, released on his own Brö label in 1967. It was reissued on LP by FMP and then much later on CD by the Atavistic label in 2002. This reissue featured the added track "Everything"...

    (1967)
  • Machine Gun (1968)
  • Nipples
    Nipples (album)
    Nipples is a 1969 album by free jazz saxophonist Peter Brötzmann, originally released on the Calig record label. The title track is performed by a sextet comprising Brötzmann , Evan Parker , Derek Bailey , Fred Van Hove , Han Bennink , and Buschi Niebergall...

    (1969)
  • More Nipples (1969)
  • Fuck de Boere: Dedicated to Johnny Dyani (1970)
  • Solo (1976)
  • Alarm (1981)
  • 14 Love Poems (1984)
  • No Nothing (1991)
  • Dare Devil (1992)
  • The März Combo Live in Wuppertal (1993)
  • Nothing to Say - Dedicated to Oscar Wilde: A Suite of Breathless Motion (1996)
  • Sprawl (1997)
  • Right as Rain - Dedicated to Werner Ludi (2001)
  • Usable Past (EP) (2002)
  • Lost & Found (2009)

Bands with Brötzmann as a member

Brötzmann Clarinet Project - with John Zorn
John Zorn
John Zorn is an American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Zorn is a prolific artist: he has hundreds of album credits as performer, composer, or producer...

, and others
  • Berlin Djungle (1987)


The Chicago Octet/Tentet/Tentet Plus Two
  • The Chicago Octet/Tentet (1997)
  • Stone/Water (2000)
  • Two Lightboxes (2000)
  • Broken English (2001)
  • Short Visit to Nowhere (2001)
  • Images (2004)
  • Signs (2004)
  • Be Music, Night - A Homage to Kenneth Patchen (2005)
  • American Landscapes 1 (2007)
  • American Landscapes 2 (2007)
  • At Molde 2007 (2007)


Die Like a Dog Quartet - with Toshinori Kondo
Toshinori Kondo
Toshinori Kondo is an avant-garde jazz and jazz fusion trumpeter. He resides in Tokyo, New York City, and Amsterdam....

, William Parker
William Parker (musician)
William Parker is an American free jazz double bassist, poet and composer.-Biography:Parker was not formally trained as a classical player, though he did study with Jimmy Garrison, Richard Davis, and Wilbur Ware and learned the tradition. Parker is one of few jazz bassists who regularly plays arco...

, Hamid Drake
Hamid Drake
Hamid Drake is an American jazz drummer and percussionist. He lives in Chicago, IL but spends much of his time traveling around the world for concerts and studio dates....

  • Die Like a Dog: Fragments of Music, Life and Death of Albert Ayler (1994)
  • Little Birds Have Fast Hearts, No. 1 (1998)
  • From Valley to Valley (feat. Roy Campbell, Jr.
    Roy Campbell, Jr.
    Roy Campbell, Jr. is versatile trumpeter frequently linked to free jazz, though he has also performed rhythm and blues, bebop and funk at times during his career. Born in Los Angeles, California in 1952, Campbell was raised in New York. At age fifteen Campbell began learning to play trumpet and...

    ) (1999)
  • Little Birds Have Fast Hearts, No. 2 (1999)
  • Aoyama Crows (2002)


Full Blast - with Marino Pliakas and Michael Wertmüller
  • Full Blast (2006)
  • Black Hole (2009)


Globe Unity Orchestra
Globe Unity Orchestra
The Globe Unity Orchestra is a free jazz ensemble.Globe Unity was formed in autumn 1966 with a commission received by Alexander von Schlippenbach from the Berlin Jazz Festival...

  • Live in Wuppertal (1973)
  • For Example (1973)
  • Hamburg '74 (1974)
  • Evidence (1975)
  • Into the Valley (1975)
  • Rumbling (EP) (1975)
  • Jahrmarkt/Local Fair (1977)
  • Improvisations (1977)
  • Pearls (1977)
  • Compositions (1979)
  • Intergalactic Blow (1982)
  • 20th Anniversary (1986)
  • Globe Unity 67 & 70 (2001)
  • Globe Unity 2002 (2002)


Last Exit
Last Exit (Free jazz band)
Last Exit was a free jazz supergroup composed of electric guitarist Sonny Sharrock, drummer/occasional vocalist Ronald Shannon Jackson, saxophonist Peter Brötzmann, and bass guitarist Bill Laswell. They were active from 1986 to the early 1990s, releasing primarily live albums recorded in Europe...

- with Bill Laswell
Bill Laswell
Bill Laswell is an American bassist, producer and record label owner....

, Sonny Sharrock
Sonny Sharrock
Warren Harding "Sonny" Sharrock was an American jazz guitarist. He was once married to singer Linda Sharrock, with whom he sometimes recorded and performed....

, Ronald Shannon Jackson
Ronald Shannon Jackson
Ronald Shannon Jackson is an American jazz drummer. He was born in Fort Worth, Texas.Jackson is notable for his unusual approach to his instrument, which draws as much inspiration from military and parade bands as from traditional jazz drumming.He is the only person to have recorded and performed...

  • Last Exit (1986)
  • The Noise Of Trouble: Live In Tokyo (1987)
  • Iron Path (1988)
  • Cassette Recordings '87 (1988) (reissued in 1995 as From The Board)
  • Köln (1990)


North Quartet
  • Malamute (2005)


Sonore - with Ken Vandermark
Ken Vandermark
Ken Vandermark is an American jazz composer and saxophone and clarinet player.A fixture on the Chicago-area music scene since the 1990s, Vandermark has earned wide critical praise for his playing and his multilayered compositions, which typically balance intricate orchestration with passionate...

 and Mats Gustafsson
Mats Gustafsson
Mats Olof Gustafsson is a Swedish saxophone player and a stalwart on the Scandinavian free jazz scene. He is known for his tonal belligerence and intensity when improvising....

  • No One Ever Works Alone (2004)
  • Only the Devil Has No Dreams (2007)
  • Call Before You Dig (2009)


The Wild Mans Band - with Peter Ole Jørgensen and Peter Friis Nielsen
  • The Wild Mans Band (1997)
  • Three Rocks and a Pine (1999)
  • The Darkest River (2003)
  • Flower Head (2007)


The Wuppertal Workshop Ensemble
  • The Family (1981)

Other collaborations

Bailey / Sabu / Brötzmann
  • Live in Okayama 1987 (2001)


Bergman
Borah Bergman
Borah Bergman is an American free jazz pianist.Bergman learned clarinet as a child, and did not commence studies on piano until adulthood. He developed his left hand playing to the point where he became essentially ambidextrous as a pianist, and can play equally fast in both hands...

 / Borgmann / Brötzmann
aka "Berg/Borg/Brötz: Mann/n"
  • Ride Into the Blue (1996)
  • Blue Zoo (1997)


Bergman / Braxton
Anthony Braxton
Anthony Braxton is an American composer, saxophonist, clarinettist, flautist, pianist, and philosopher. Braxton has released well over 100 albums since the 1960s...

 / Brötzmann
  • Eight by Three (1997)


Bergman / Brötzmann / Cyrille
Andrew Cyrille
Andrew Charles Cyrille is an avant-garde jazz drummer.Cyrille was born in Brooklyn, New York into a family with a mother from Haiti. He began studying science at St...

  • Exhilaration (1997)


Borgmann / Brötzmann / Parker
William Parker (musician)
William Parker is an American free jazz double bassist, poet and composer.-Biography:Parker was not formally trained as a classical player, though he did study with Jimmy Garrison, Richard Davis, and Wilbur Ware and learned the tradition. Parker is one of few jazz bassists who regularly plays arco...

 / Bakr
  • The Cooler Suite (2003)


Peter Brötzmann / Juhani Aaltonen
Juhani Aaltonen
Juhani Aaltonen is a Finnish jazz saxophonist and flautist.Born in Kouvola, Finland, he began playing professionally at the end of the 1950s. He played in a sextet led by Heikki Rosendahl during that time, and then studied flute performance at the Sibelius Academy and in the U.S. at the Berklee...

 / Peter Kowald
Peter Kowald
Peter Kowald was a German free jazz musician.A member of the Globe Unity Orchestra, and a touring double-bass player, Kowald collaborated with a large number of European free jazz and American free-jazz players during his career, including Peter Brötzmann, Irène Schweizer, Karl Berger, Fred...

 / Edward Vesala
Edward Vesala
Edward Vesala , born Martti Vesala, was a Finnish avant-garde jazz composer, bandleader and drummer....

  • Hot Lotta (1973)


Peter Brötzmann / Gregg Bendian
Gregg Bendian
Gregg Bendian is a jazz percussionist and composer, primarily a vibraphonist. He was born on July 13, 1963 in Englewood, New Jersey.Bendian studied under Noel DaCosta. He has played and recorded with Nels Cline, Pat Metheny, Derek Bailey, Peter Brötzmann, Steve Hunt, Gary Lucas and Cecil Taylor...

 / William Parker
William Parker (musician)
William Parker is an American free jazz double bassist, poet and composer.-Biography:Parker was not formally trained as a classical player, though he did study with Jimmy Garrison, Richard Davis, and Wilbur Ware and learned the tradition. Parker is one of few jazz bassists who regularly plays arco...

  • Sacred Scrape, Secret Response (1994)


Brötzmann / Bennink
Han Bennink
Han Bennink is a Dutch jazz drummer and percussionist. On occasion his recordings have featured his playing on clarinet, violin, banjo and piano....

  • Ein halber Hund kann nicht pinkeln (1977)
  • Schwarzwaldfahrt (1977)
  • Atsugi Concert (1980)
  • Still Quite Popular After All Those Years (2005)
  • Total Music Meeting 1977 Berlin (2006, archival)
  • In Amherst 2006 (2008)


Peter Brötzmann / Casper Brötzmann
  • Last Home (1990)


Peter Brötzmann & Andrew Cyrille
Andrew Cyrille
Andrew Charles Cyrille is an avant-garde jazz drummer.Cyrille was born in Brooklyn, New York into a family with a mother from Haiti. He began studying science at St...

  • Andrew Cyrille Meets Brötzmann in Berlin (1982)


Peter Brötzmann & Hamid Drake
Hamid Drake
Hamid Drake is an American jazz drummer and percussionist. He lives in Chicago, IL but spends much of his time traveling around the world for concerts and studio dates....

  • The Dried Rat-Dog (1995)


Brötzmann / Drake / Kessler
Kent Kessler
Kent Kessler is an American jazz double-bassist, best known for his work in the Chicago jazz and avant garde music scene.Kessler, born in Crawfordsville, IN, grew up on Cape Cod and began playing trombone at age ten. He and his family moved to Chicago when he was 13, and a few years later Kessler...

  • Live at the Empty Bottle (1999)


B.E.E.K. (Brötzmann, Ellis
Lisle Ellis
Lisle Ellis, is a Canadian composer and bassist who is known for his improvisational style and use of electronics.-Biography:...

, Eneidi, Krall)
  • Live at Spruce Street Forum (2004)


Brötzmann / Friis-Nielsen / Uuskyla
  • Noise of Wings (1999)
  • Flying Feathers (2002)
  • Live at Nefertiti (2002)
  • Medicina (2004)


Peter Brötzmann / Mahmoud Guinia
Mahmoud Guinia
El Maallem Mahmoud Guinia El Maallem Mahmoud Guinia El Maallem Mahmoud Guinia (المعلم محمود ﯕينيا or المعلم محمود كينيا; also spelled Mahmoud Gania is a musician from Morocco. He has appeared on a number of recordings, most notably with Verve recording The Splendid Master Gnawa Musicians of Morocco....

 / Hamid Drake
Hamid Drake
Hamid Drake is an American jazz drummer and percussionist. He lives in Chicago, IL but spends much of his time traveling around the world for concerts and studio dates....

  • The WELS Concert (1997)


Peter Brötzmann & Shoji Hano
  • Funny Rat [K7] (1982)
  • Funny Rats/2 (2008)
  • Funny Rats/3 (2008)


Peter Brötzmann, Fred Hopkins
Fred Hopkins
Fred Hopkins was a Chicago double bassist who played a major role in the development of the avant-garde jazz movement. He was a member of the avant garde jazz trio Air and David Murray's Low Class Conspiracy; he frequently worked with the cellist Diedre Murray...

 & Rashied Ali
Rashied Ali
Rashied Ali, born Robert Patterson was an American free jazz and avant-garde jazz drummer best known for playing with John Coltrane in the last years of Coltrane's life.-Biography:...

  • Songlines: Music Is a Memory Bank for Finding One's Way About the World (1994)


Peter Brötzmann, Fred Hopkins & Hamid Drake
  • The Atlanta Concert (2001)


Brötzmann / Kondo
Toshinori Kondo
Toshinori Kondo is an avant-garde jazz and jazz fusion trumpeter. He resides in Tokyo, New York City, and Amsterdam....

 / Pupillo / Nilssen-Love
Paal Nilssen-Love
Paal Nilssen-Love is a Norwegian drummer active in the jazz and free jazz genres.Nilssen-Love was raised at a jazz club in Stavanger, run by his mother, and his father, who was also a drummer...

  • Hairy Bones (2009)


Brötzmann / Laswell
Bill Laswell
Bill Laswell is an American bassist, producer and record label owner....

  • Low Life (1987)


Peter Brötzmann / Fred Lonberg-Holm
Fred Lonberg-Holm
Fred Lonberg-Holm is an American cellist based in Chicago. He relocated from New York City to Chicago in 1995.Lonberg-Holm is most identified with playing free improvisation and free jazz. He is also a composer of concert works...

  • The Brain of the Dog in Section (2008)


Peter Brötzmann / Werner Lüdi
  • Wie Das Leben So Spielt (1990)


Brötzmann / Mangelsdorff / Sommer
  • Pica Pica (1984)


Peter Brötzmann, Joe McPhee
Joe McPhee
Joe McPhee is an American jazz multi-instrumentalist born in Miami, Florida, a player of tenor, alto, and soprano saxophone, the trumpet, flugelhorn and valve trombone...

, Kent Kessler
Kent Kessler
Kent Kessler is an American jazz double-bassist, best known for his work in the Chicago jazz and avant garde music scene.Kessler, born in Crawfordsville, IN, grew up on Cape Cod and began playing trombone at age ten. He and his family moved to Chicago when he was 13, and a few years later Kessler...

 & Michael Zerang
  • Tales Out of Time (2004)
  • Guts (2007)
  • The Damage Is Done (2009)


Brötzmann / Michiyo Yagi
Michiyo Yagi
, a Japanese musician, studied koto under the late Tadao Sawai, Kazue Sawai and Satomi Kurauchi, and graduated from the NHK Professional Training School for Traditional Musicians. Between 1989 and 1990 she was a visiting professor of Music at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, U.S.A...

 / Nilssen-Love
Paal Nilssen-Love
Paal Nilssen-Love is a Norwegian drummer active in the jazz and free jazz genres.Nilssen-Love was raised at a jazz club in Stavanger, run by his mother, and his father, who was also a drummer...

  • Head On (2008)


Brötzmann & Miller
  • Brötzmann & Miller (2007)


Brötzmann / Miller
Harry Miller (jazz bassist)
Harold Simon 'Harry' Miller was a South African jazz bass player.Miller began his career as a bassist with Manfred Mann, and came to settle in London...

 / Moholo
Louis Moholo
Louis Tebugo Moholo , is a South African jazz drummer.He formed The Blue Notes with Chris McGregor, Johnny Dyani, Nikele Moyake, Mongezi Feza and Dudu Pukwana, and emigrated to Europe with them in 1964, eventually settling in London, where he formed part of a South African exile community that made...

  • The Nearer the Bone, the Sweeter the Meat (1979)
  • Opened, but Hardly Touched (1981)


Peter Brötzmann / Misha Mengelberg
Misha Mengelberg
Misha Mengelberg is a Dutch jazz pianist and composer. He won the Gaudeamus International Composers Award in 1961.-Biography:...

 / Han Bennink
Han Bennink
Han Bennink is a Dutch jazz drummer and percussionist. On occasion his recordings have featured his playing on clarinet, violin, banjo and piano....

  • 3 Points and a Mountain (1979)


Peter Brötzmann & Paal Nilssen-Love
Paal Nilssen-Love
Paal Nilssen-Love is a Norwegian drummer active in the jazz and free jazz genres.Nilssen-Love was raised at a jazz club in Stavanger, run by his mother, and his father, who was also a drummer...

  • Sweet Sweat (2008)
  • Woodcuts (2009)


Peter Brötzmann, Paal Nilssen-Love & Mats Gustafsson
Mats Gustafsson
Mats Olof Gustafsson is a Swedish saxophone player and a stalwart on the Scandinavian free jazz scene. He is known for his tonal belligerence and intensity when improvising....

  • The Fat Is Gone (2007)


Brötzmann / Oliver / Kellers
  • In a State of Undress (feat. 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...

    )
    (1989)


Brötzmann / Parker
William Parker (musician)
William Parker is an American free jazz double bassist, poet and composer.-Biography:Parker was not formally trained as a classical player, though he did study with Jimmy Garrison, Richard Davis, and Wilbur Ware and learned the tradition. Parker is one of few jazz bassists who regularly plays arco...

 / Drake
Hamid Drake
Hamid Drake is an American jazz drummer and percussionist. He lives in Chicago, IL but spends much of his time traveling around the world for concerts and studio dates....

  • Never Too Late but Always Too Early (2003)


Peter Brötzmann / William Parker / Michael Wertmüller
  • Nothung (2002)


Peter Brötzmann & Walter Perkins
  • The Ink Is Gone (2002)


Peter Brötzmann & Tom Raworth
Tom Raworth
Tom Raworth is a London-born poet and visual artist who has published over forty books of poetry and prose since 1966. His works has been translated and published in many countries. Raworth is a key figure in the British Poetry Revival. He lives in Brighton, England.-Early life and work:Raworth...

  • No Hard Feelings - For Steve Lacy (2007)


Peter Brötzmann / Ed Sivkov / Nick Rubanov
  • Petroglyphs (2004)


Peter Brötzmann, Nicky Scopelitis & Shoji Hano
  • Organized Chaos (2002)


Brötzmann / Sommer
Günter Sommer
Günter Baby Sommer is a German jazz drummer.He studied music in Dresden. He rose to fame in the GDR. He is part of the European free jazz avantgarde. He was part of the trio with Conny Bauer and Peter Kowald...

 / Phillips
Barre Phillips
Barre Phillips is a jazz and free improvisation bassist. A professional musician since 1960, he migrated to New York City in 1962, then to Europe in 1967. Since 1972 he has been based in southern France....

  • Réservé (1989)


Peter Brötzmann - Keith Tippett
Keith Tippett
Keith Tippett is a British jazz pianist and composer.Tippett, the son of a local police officer, went to Greenway Boys Secondary Modern school in Southmead, Bristol. He formed his first jazz band called The KT7 whilst still at school and they performed numbers popular at the time by The Temperance...

 Quartet
  • appears on Bratislava Jazz Days compilation (1984)


Peter Brötzmann & Peeter Uuskyla
  • Born Broke (2008)


Brötzmann / Van Hove
Fred Van Hove
Fred Van Hove is a Belgian jazz musician and a pioneer of European free jazz. He is a pianist, accordionist, church organist, and carillonist, an improviser and a composer...

 / Bennink
Han Bennink
Han Bennink is a Dutch jazz drummer and percussionist. On occasion his recordings have featured his playing on clarinet, violin, banjo and piano....

  • Balls (1970)
  • Free Jazz und Kinder (1972)
  • Brötzmann / Van Hove / Bennink (1973)
  • Outspan No. 2 (1974)
  • Tschüs (1975)


Brötzmann, Van Hove, Bennink & Albert Mangelsdorff
Albert Mangelsdorff
Albert Mangelsdorff was one of the most accredited and innovative trombonists of modern jazz who became famous for his distinctive technique of playing multiphonics.-Biography:...

  • Couscouss de la Mauresque (1971)
  • Elements (1971)
  • The End (1971)
  • Outspan No. 1 (1974)
  • Live in Berlin '71 (1991, archival)


Peter Brötzmann & Nasheet Waits
  • Live at the 'Bottle' Fest 2005 (2005)


Brötzmann Wilkinson Quartet - with Simon Fell
Simon Fell
Simon H. Fell is a bassist and composer; he is primarily known for his work as a free improviser and the composer of ambitiously complex post-serialist works.Fell began playing double bass in 1973...

 and Willi Kellers
  • One Night in Burmantoft's (2007)


Peter Brötzmann / Yukihiro Issoh / Tamio Kawabata / Ryojiro Furusawa
  • Vier Tiere (1993)


Brötzmann / Zerang
  • Live in Beirut (2005)


Crispell
Marilyn Crispell
Marilyn Crispell is an American jazz pianist and composer.-Biography:Crispell studied classical piano and composition at the New England Conservatory of Music. She has been a resident of Woodstock, NY since 1977 when she came to study and teach at Karl Berger's Creative Music Studio...

 / Brötzmann / Drake
Hamid Drake
Hamid Drake is an American jazz drummer and percussionist. He lives in Chicago, IL but spends much of his time traveling around the world for concerts and studio dates....

  • Hyperion (1995)


Frode Gjerstad / Peter Brötzmann
  • Invisible Touch (1998)
  • Sharp Knives Cut Deeper (2002)
  • Soria Moria (2003)


Keiji Haino
Keiji Haino
Keiji Haino born May 3, 1952 in Chiba, Japan, and currently residing in Tokyo, is a Japanese musician whose work has included rock, free improvisation, noise, singer-songwriter, solo percussion, psychedelic, minimalism and drone styles...

 & Peter Brötzmann
  • Evolving Blush or Driving Original Sin (1997)


Keiji Haino, Peter Brötzmann and Shoji Hano
  • Shadows (2000)


Alfred Harth
Alfred Harth
Alfred 23 Harth is a German multimedia artist, band leader, multi-instrumentalist musician, and composer who mixes genres in a polystylistic manner...

 / Peter Brötzmann
  • Go-No-Go (1987)


Achim Jaroschek / Peter Brötzmann
  • Neurotransmitter (1998)
  • Subtle Twister (2003)


Kellers / Brötzmann
  • Kellers / Brötzmann (1981)


Evan Parker
Evan Parker
Evan Shaw Parker is a British free-improvising saxophone player from the European free jazz scene.Recording and performing prolifically with many collaborators, Parker was a pivotal figure in the development of European free jazz and free improvisation, and has pioneered or substantially expanded...

 Trio & Peter Brötzmann Trio
  • The Bishop's Move (2004)


Sabu Brötzmann Duo
  • Sabu Brötzmann Duo (1997)


Frank Samba, Dieter Manderscheid, Peter Brötzmann
  • Danquah Circle (2004)


Sharrock
Sonny Sharrock
Warren Harding "Sonny" Sharrock was an American jazz guitarist. He was once married to singer Linda Sharrock, with whom he sometimes recorded and performed....

 / Brötzmann
  • Fragments (2007, archival)


Nicolai Yudanov, Peter Brötzmann & Sakari Luoma
  • Fryed Fruit (2001)

As a sideman; guest appearances

  • B-Shops for the Poor - Visions & Blueprints (1992)
  • Thomas Borgmann Trio - Stalker Songs (1997)
  • Don Cherry
    Don Cherry (jazz)
    Donald Eugene Cherry was an innovative African-American jazz cornetist whose career began with a long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman. He went on to live in many parts of the world and work with a wide variety of musicians.-Biography:Cherry was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and...

    , Krzysztof Penderecki
    Krzysztof Penderecki
    Krzysztof Penderecki , born November 23, 1933 in Dębica) is a Polish composer and conductor. His 1960 avant-garde Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima for string orchestra brought him to international attention, and this success was followed by acclaim for his choral St. Luke Passion. Both these...

     & the New Eternal Rhythm Orchestra - Actions (1972)
  • Heiner Goebbels
    Heiner Goebbels
    Heiner Goebbels is a German composer, music director and professor at Justus-Liebig-University in Gießen and at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland....

     - Hörstücke (1994)
  • Barry Guy
    Barry Guy
    Barry John Guy is a British composer and double bass player. His range of interests encompasses early music, contemporary composition, jazz and improvisation, and he has worked with a wide variety of orchestras in the UK and Europe...

     & London Jazz Composers' Orchestra - Study II, Stringer (2006)
  • Haazz & Company - Unlawful Noise (1976)
  • Charles Hayward - Double Agent(s) (Live in Japan Volume Two) (1996)
  • Ruf de Heimat - Machine Kaput (1996)
  • ICP Orchestra - Groupcomposing (1971)
  • ICP Orchestra - "Tetterettet" (1978)
  • ICP Orchestra - In Berlin (1979)
  • Michael Nyman
    Michael Nyman
    Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, known for the many film scores he wrote during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway, and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano...

     - Michael Nyman
    Michael Nyman (1981 album)
    Michael Nyman is the third album release by Michael Nyman and the second with the Michael Nyman Band, having previously contributed tracks to new music compilations...

    (1981)
  • Misha Mengelberg
    Misha Mengelberg
    Misha Mengelberg is a Dutch jazz pianist and composer. He won the Gaudeamus International Composers Award in 1961.-Biography:...

     - Japan Japon (1982)
  • Neils & the New York Street Percussionists - Neils & the New York Street Percussionists (1990)
  • Orchester 33 1/3 - Orchester 33 1/3 (1997)
  • Alexander von Schlippenbach
    Alexander von Schlippenbach
    Alexander von Schlippenbach is a German jazz pianist and composer.-Biography:...

     - The Living Music (1969)
  • 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...

     - European Echoes (1969)
  • Cecil Taylor
    Cecil Taylor
    Cecil Percival Taylor is an American pianist and poet. Classically trained, Taylor is generally acknowledged as one of the pioneers of free jazz. His music is characterized by an extremely energetic, physical approach, producing complex improvised sounds, frequently involving tone clusters and...

     - Olu Iwa
    Olu Iwa
    Olu Iwa is a live album by Cecil Taylor recorded in Berlin, Germany on April 12, 1986 and released on the Soul Note label. The album features a concert performance by Taylor with Thurman Barker, William Parker and Steve McCall with Earl McIntyre, Peter Brotzmann and Frank Wright added on one...

    (1986)
  • Cecil Taylor - Alms/Tiergarten (Spree)
    Alms/Tiergarten (Spree)
    Alms/Tiergarten is a live album by Cecil Taylor with the Cecil Taylor European Orchestra recorded in Berlin on July 2, 1988 as part of month long series of concerts by Taylor and released on the FMP label....

    (1989)

Films

  • RAGE!, made by Bernard Josse (F 2011)
  • BRÖTZMANN, Filmproduktion Siegersbusch, documentary film by René Jeuckens, Thomas Mau and Grischa Windus (Cinema, DVD, D/UK 2011)

External links

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