Theo Jörgensmann
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Theodor Franz Jörgensmann (born September 29, 1948 in Bottrop
, Germany
) is a jazz
and free-improvising
Basset clarinet
player and composer
. He has been a professional musician since 1975.
musicians. He was part of the clarinet Renaissance
in the jazz
and improvising
music scene. Jörgensmann is one of a few clarinet players for whom unaccompanied solo recordings are a significant part of his work.
He started to play clarinet when he was 18 years old. From 1969 until 1972 Jörgensmann took private lessons from a music teacher at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen
. At the same time he started working with fellow musicians from the Ruhr industrial area
. During this time he was also a chemical laboratory assistant. After a one and half year hitch in the German Army Jörgensmann worked with handicapped children and studied social pedagogics, but he never brought it to a conclusion. Since 1975 he has been a professional musician.
During a career spanning three decades as a free improviser Jörgensmann has worked with (among many others) Mike Richmond
, Barre Phillips
, Kent Carter
, John Lindberg, Charlie Mariano
, Wilber Morris
, Eric Vloeimans
, Jeanne Lee
, John Fischer
, Vincent Chancey
, Kenny Wheeler
, Paul McCandless
and Lee Konitz
.
From 1975 to 1977 he headed the group Clarinet Contrast
; a group which frontline consisted only of clarinets. In this group played Perry Robinson
, Hans Kumpf, Bernd Konrad and Michel Pilz. At the end of the 1970s he was leader of one of West Germany's best-known jazz groups. At the beginning of the 1980s he took part in a Clarinet Summit (which was created by Joachim E. Berendt
and himself) with John Carter
, Perry Robinson
, Gianluigi Trovesi
and others. Since those days Jörgensmann has been involved in numerous international projects. In 1985 Jörgensmann toured Europe with bassist Barre Phillips and reed player Paul McCandless
. He was a member of Willem van Manen's Contraband (1985–1998), Andrea Centazzo
's Mitteleuropa Orchestra (1983–1985), John Fischer's Interface (1981–1996) and Franz Koglmann
's Pipetet (1983–1985). At the same time he was also leader of Klarinettenquartett Cl-4
and co-founder of large ensemble Grubenklangorchester. In 1987 Jörgensmann was the subject of a documentary film
, Theo Jörgensmann, Bottrop, Klarinette, directed by Christoph Hübner.
Between 1983 and 1993 he held a lectureship for clarinet and ensemble at University of Duisburg
, and from 1993 until 1997 he was a lecturer for free improvising at Music Therapeutics Institute of Witten/Herdecke University
. In company with the music-scientist Rolf-Dieter Weyer, Jörgensmann wrote a philosophical book about improvising in music.
In 1997 he started playing with a new Theo Jörgensmann Quartet, which toured in North America in 1999, 2001, and 2003, including playing twice at Montreal International Jazz Festival (1999 and 2003). In addition he has played with the young Polish twins Marcin Oles
and Bartlomiej Oles
since 2003. The album Oleś Jörgensmann Oleś, Directions, was chosen by Polish
internet jazz-magazine Diapazon as "The Record of the Year" in 2005.
Since 2008 he is a member of Trio Hot with Albrecht Maurer, violin and Peter Jacquemyn, bass, and in 2009 he started the Deep Down Clarinet Duo together with the contrabass clarinet
player Ernst Ulrich Deuker
.
They also work together in the Tribal Trio, a clarinet trio with the French-American clarinetist Etienne Rolin. In 2009 Jörgensmann performed a few concerts with younger musicians from UK ( Seb Rochford, Dominic Lash
, Shabaka Hutchings and Noel Taylor) in London. In 2011 he formed a new trio - The Freedom Trio - with bassist Christian Sydney Ramond and acoustic guitar player Hagen Stüdemann. After a twelve-year break, he also works together again with pianist Bernd Köppen.
"To find the right balance between communication of motion and non-communication is the major part of improvised music; that communication of motion as a part of interaction in music is an opportunity to create a new structure of time, which the listener could perceive as a new kind of musical space; that the idea of jazz does not depend on a specific material and special form; that the essential aspect of jazz is the fact that jazz musicians discovered the fourth dimension of time in music (they call it swing)."
Bottrop
Bottrop is a city in west central Germany, on the Rhine-Herne Canal, in North Rhine-Westphalia. Located in the Ruhr industrial area, Bottrop adjoins Essen, Oberhausen, Gladbeck and Dorsten. The city had been a coal-mining and rail center and contains factories producing coal-tar derivatives,...
, Germany
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...
) is a 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...
and free-improvising
Free improvisation
Free improvisation or free music is improvised music without any rules beyond the logic or inclination of the musician involved. The term can refer to both a technique and as a recognizable genre in its own right....
Basset clarinet
Basset clarinet
The basset clarinet is a clarinet, similar to the usual soprano clarinet but longer and with additional keys to enable playing several additional lower notes...
player and composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
. He has been a professional musician since 1975.
Activities
Theo Jörgensmann belongs to the 2nd generation of European free jazzEuropean 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. He was part of the clarinet Renaissance
Renaissance
The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...
in the 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...
and improvising
Improvisation
Improvisation is the practice of acting, singing, talking and reacting, of making and creating, in the moment and in response to the stimulus of one's immediate environment and inner feelings. This can result in the invention of new thought patterns, new practices, new structures or symbols, and/or...
music scene. Jörgensmann is one of a few clarinet players for whom unaccompanied solo recordings are a significant part of his work.
He started to play clarinet when he was 18 years old. From 1969 until 1972 Jörgensmann took private lessons from a music teacher at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen
Essen
- Origin of the name :In German-speaking countries, the name of the city Essen often causes confusion as to its origins, because it is commonly known as the German infinitive of the verb for the act of eating, and/or the German noun for food. Although scholars still dispute the interpretation of...
. At the same time he started working with fellow musicians from the Ruhr industrial area
Ruhr Area
The Ruhr, by German-speaking geographers and historians more accurately called Ruhr district or Ruhr region , is an urban area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With 4435 km² and a population of some 5.2 million , it is the largest urban agglomeration in Germany...
. During this time he was also a chemical laboratory assistant. After a one and half year hitch in the German Army Jörgensmann worked with handicapped children and studied social pedagogics, but he never brought it to a conclusion. Since 1975 he has been a professional musician.
During a career spanning three decades as a free improviser Jörgensmann has worked with (among many others) Mike Richmond
Mike Richmond (musician)
Mike Richmond is an American jazz bassist.Richmond played guitar as a youth but picked up bass during high school. He attended Temple University and taught and played locally in the late 1960s...
, Barre 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....
, Kent Carter
Kent Carter
Kent Carter is an American jazz bassist. He is the grandson of American artist, Rockwell Kent. He worked in Steve Lacy's group, played on the two Jazz Composer's Orchestra albums and also released albums for Emanem Records.-As leader:* Beauvais Cathedral * The Juillaguet Collection with Albrecht...
, John Lindberg, Charlie Mariano
Charlie Mariano
Carmine Ugo Mariano was an American jazz alto saxophonist. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and died in Cologne, Germany.-Biography:Mariano was the son of Italian immigrants....
, Wilber Morris
Wilber Morris
Wilber Morris was an American jazz double bass player and bandleader. He was the brother of the cornetist, composer, and conductor Butch Morris....
, Eric Vloeimans
Eric Vloeimans
Eric Vloeimans is a Dutch jazz trumpeter.Vloeimans initially studied classical music at the Rotterdam Academy of Music...
, Jeanne Lee
Jeanne Lee
Jeanne Lee was an American jazz singer, poet and composer. Best known for a wide range of vocal styles she mastered, Lee collaborated with numerous distinguished composers and performers which included Gunter Hampel, Ran Blake, Carla Bley, Anthony Braxton, Marion Brown, and many...
, John Fischer
John Fischer
- Musicians :* John Fischer , Belgian/American jazz pianist, composer electronic painter and sculptor born in 1930* John Fischer , singer/songwriter who is one of the credited founders of Jesus music and Senior Writer with PurposeDrivenLife.com* John Fischer, co-founder of the hard rock band Full...
, Vincent Chancey
Vincent Chancey
Vincent Chancey is an American jazz hornist.Chancey, a French horn player, attended the Southern Illinois University School of Music and then studied under Julius Watkins in New York City...
, 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....
, Paul McCandless
Paul McCandless
Paul McCandless, Jr. is an American jazz woodwind player and composer. He is one of few expert jazz oboists, and also plays English horn, soprano saxophone, sopranino saxophone, bass clarinet, clarinet, and pennywhistle, among other instruments.He has performed with the Paul Winter Consort and is...
and Lee Konitz
Lee Konitz
Lee Konitz is an American jazz composer and alto saxophonist born in Chicago, Illinois.Generally considered one of the driving forces of Cool Jazz, Konitz has also performed successfully in bebop and avant-garde settings...
.
From 1975 to 1977 he headed the group Clarinet Contrast
Clarinet Contrast
Clarinet Contrast was a clarinet ensemble with rhythm group led by clarinetist Theo Jörgensmann.The group, which included members from four country's, existed from 1975 to 1977 and had awakened the interest in the contemporary jazzscene for the clarinet and was also one of the participants in the...
; a group which frontline consisted only of clarinets. In this group played 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:...
, Hans Kumpf, Bernd Konrad and Michel Pilz. At the end of the 1970s he was leader of one of West Germany's best-known jazz groups. At the beginning of the 1980s he took part in a Clarinet Summit (which was created by Joachim E. Berendt
Joachim-Ernst Berendt
Joachim-Ernst Berendt was a German music journalist, book author and producer specialized on Jazz.-Life:...
and himself) with John Carter
John Carter (jazz musician)
John Wallace Carter was an American jazz clarinet, saxophone, and flute player.-Biography:Born in Fort Worth, Texas, he played with Ornette Coleman and Charles Moffett in the 1940s. From 1961, Carter was based mainly on the West Coast. There he met Bobby Bradford in 1965, with whom he...
, 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:...
, Gianluigi Trovesi
Gianluigi Trovesi
thumb|200px|Gianluigi Trovesi in 2006.Gianluigi Trovesi is an Italian jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and composer.A native of Nembro near Bergamo in Lombardy, he studied harmony and counterpoint under Vittorio Fellegara. Since then he has been a major player in the Italian and European jazz scene....
and others. Since those days Jörgensmann has been involved in numerous international projects. In 1985 Jörgensmann toured Europe with bassist Barre Phillips and reed player Paul McCandless
Paul McCandless
Paul McCandless, Jr. is an American jazz woodwind player and composer. He is one of few expert jazz oboists, and also plays English horn, soprano saxophone, sopranino saxophone, bass clarinet, clarinet, and pennywhistle, among other instruments.He has performed with the Paul Winter Consort and is...
. He was a member of Willem van Manen's Contraband (1985–1998), Andrea Centazzo
Andrea Centazzo
Andrea Centazzo is an Italian-born American percussionist and composer of minimal music. He acquired U.S. citizenship in 2000 and lives in Los Angeles, California....
's Mitteleuropa Orchestra (1983–1985), John Fischer's Interface (1981–1996) and Franz Koglmann
Franz Koglmann
Franz Koglmann is an Austrian jazz composer. He performs on both the trumpet and flugelhorn in a variety of contexts, most often within avant-garde jazz and third stream contexts...
's Pipetet (1983–1985). At the same time he was also leader of Klarinettenquartett Cl-4
Klarinettenquartett Cl-4
The Klarinettenquartett Cl-4 was one of a few clarinet chamber jazz ensembles in the 1980s. This international ensemble based in Germany existed from 1985 to 1988. The group integrated elements of jazz, folk and European concert music in their music without wanting to belong to the Third...
and co-founder of large ensemble Grubenklangorchester. In 1987 Jörgensmann was the subject of a documentary film
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
, Theo Jörgensmann, Bottrop, Klarinette, directed by Christoph Hübner.
Between 1983 and 1993 he held a lectureship for clarinet and ensemble at University of Duisburg
University of Duisburg
-History:Its origins date back to the 1555 decision to create a university for the unified duchies at the Lower Rhine that were later to be merged into Prussia. After the foundation of an academic college in 1559, a university was founded in 1655 by Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, the...
, and from 1993 until 1997 he was a lecturer for free improvising at Music Therapeutics Institute of Witten/Herdecke University
Witten/Herdecke University
Witten/Herdecke University is a private university in Witten, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Unlike most other German universities, it is a private enterprise with about 1100 students and 400 employees...
. In company with the music-scientist Rolf-Dieter Weyer, Jörgensmann wrote a philosophical book about improvising in music.
In 1997 he started playing with a new Theo Jörgensmann Quartet, which toured in North America in 1999, 2001, and 2003, including playing twice at Montreal International Jazz Festival (1999 and 2003). In addition he has played with the young Polish twins Marcin Oles
Marcin Oles
Marcin Oles is a jazz and free improvisation bass player, composer and record producer. He is the twin brother of Bartlomiej Oles....
and Bartlomiej Oles
Bartlomiej Oles
Bartlomiej Brat Oles is a jazz and free improvisation drummer, composer and record producer. He is the twin brother of Marcin Oles and Art-director of the Polish independent Jazz Label Fenommedia....
since 2003. The album Oleś Jörgensmann Oleś, Directions, was chosen by Polish
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
internet jazz-magazine Diapazon as "The Record of the Year" in 2005.
Since 2008 he is a member of Trio Hot with Albrecht Maurer, violin and Peter Jacquemyn, bass, and in 2009 he started the Deep Down Clarinet Duo together with the contrabass clarinet
Contrabass clarinet
The contrabass clarinet is the largest member of the clarinet family that has ever been in regular production or significant use. Modern contrabass clarinets are pitched in BB, sounding two octaves lower than the common B soprano clarinet and one octave lower than the B bass clarinet...
player Ernst Ulrich Deuker
Ernst Ulrich Deuker
Ernst Ulrich Deuker is a bass player and contrabass clarinet player. He became known with the band Ideal....
.
They also work together in the Tribal Trio, a clarinet trio with the French-American clarinetist Etienne Rolin. In 2009 Jörgensmann performed a few concerts with younger musicians from UK ( Seb Rochford, Dominic Lash
Dominic Lash
Dominic Lash is an Oxford based double bassist and a central figure in the musicians' collective Oxford Improvisers. Important long-term musical collaborators include Angharad Davies, Bruno Guastalla, Alexander Hawkins, Tim Hill, Steve Noble, Samantha Rebello, Pat Thomas, Philipp Wachsmann and...
, Shabaka Hutchings and Noel Taylor) in London. In 2011 he formed a new trio - The Freedom Trio - with bassist Christian Sydney Ramond and acoustic guitar player Hagen Stüdemann. After a twelve-year break, he also works together again with pianist Bernd Köppen.
Selected discography
- Rivière Composers Pool, Summer Works 2009; Kent Carter, Albrecht Maurer, Etienne Rolin (Emanem RecordsEmanem RecordsEmanem Records is an independent record label based in London specialising in free improvised music. The label was founded in 1974 by Martin Davidson assisted by Madelaine Davidson. The main purpose of the label was to document the London free improvisation scene...
2010) - Trio Hot, Jink with Albrecht Maurer and Peter Jacquemyn (2008)
- Theo Jorgensmsnn & Oles Brothers, Alchemia with Marcin OlesMarcin OlesMarcin Oles is a jazz and free improvisation bass player, composer and record producer. He is the twin brother of Bartlomiej Oles....
and Bartlomiej OlesBartlomiej OlesBartlomiej Brat Oles is a jazz and free improvisation drummer, composer and record producer. He is the twin brother of Marcin Oles and Art-director of the Polish independent Jazz Label Fenommedia....
(2008) - Oles Jörgensmann Oles, Live in Poznan 2006 with Marcin OlesMarcin OlesMarcin Oles is a jazz and free improvisation bass player, composer and record producer. He is the twin brother of Bartlomiej Oles....
and Bartlomiej OlesBartlomiej OlesBartlomiej Brat Oles is a jazz and free improvisation drummer, composer and record producer. He is the twin brother of Marcin Oles and Art-director of the Polish independent Jazz Label Fenommedia....
(2007) - Oles Jörgensmann Oles, Directions with Marcin OlesMarcin OlesMarcin Oles is a jazz and free improvisation bass player, composer and record producer. He is the twin brother of Bartlomiej Oles....
and Bartlomiej OlesBartlomiej OlesBartlomiej Brat Oles is a jazz and free improvisation drummer, composer and record producer. He is the twin brother of Marcin Oles and Art-director of the Polish independent Jazz Label Fenommedia....
(2005) - Oles Jörgensmann Oles, Miniatures with Marcin OlesMarcin OlesMarcin Oles is a jazz and free improvisation bass player, composer and record producer. He is the twin brother of Bartlomiej Oles....
and Bartlomiej OlesBartlomiej OlesBartlomiej Brat Oles is a jazz and free improvisation drummer, composer and record producer. He is the twin brother of Marcin Oles and Art-director of the Polish independent Jazz Label Fenommedia....
(2003) - Theo Jörgensmann Quartet, Hybrid Identity (2002)
- Theo Jörgensmann Quartet, Snijbloemen (2000)
- Theo Jörgensmann Albrecht Maurer, European Echoes with Barre Phillips, Bobo StensonBobo StensonBo Gustav Stenson is a Swedish jazz pianist. Stenson was noted as early as 1963, when he stepped up from the local scene in Västerås to start playing frequently in Stockholm, where he accompanied a long line of visiting American players including Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz and Gary Burton...
, Kent Carter, Wolter Wierbos, Benoit Delbecq a.o. (1999) - Theo Jörgensmann, Fellowship with Petras Vysniauskas, Charlie Mariano, Karl BergerKarl BergerKarl Hanns Berger is a musicologist with a PhD in Music Sociology, jazz composer, jazz vibraphone and piano player.-Biography:...
, Kent Carter and Klaus Kugel (1998) - Theo Jörgensmann Quartet, ta eko mo with Christopher Dell, Christian Ramond and Klaus Kugel (1998)
- Hans Günther Wauer, Theo Jörgensmann, Günter SommerGünter SommerGünter 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...
, Merseburger Begegnung (1994) - Theo Jörgensmann Werkschau Ensemble, aesthetic direction with Albrecht Maurer (1993)
- Theo Jörgensmann Eckard Koltermann Perry Robinson, Materialized Perception (1992)
- CL 4 Seltsam ist Propheten Lied (1987)
- CL 4 Alte und neue Wege, with Lajos Dudas, Dieter Kühr, Eckard Koltermann; guest Gerald Doecke (1986)
- Theo Jörgensmann Quartet, Next Adventue with Georg Gräwe, Kai Kanthak und Achim Krämer (1981)
- Theo Jörgensmann Quartet, Song of BoWaGe (1988)
- Theo Jörgensmann Quartet feat. John Thomas, Go Ahead Clarinet (1978)
- Theo Jörgensmann Trio, Live at Birdland Gelsenkirchen (1978)
- Theo Jörgensmann Quartet, Straight out (1977)
- Theo Jörgensmann Quartet, in time guests Clarinet contrast, with Perry Robinson (1976)
- Contact Trio, Contact Trio (1972)
Solo recordings
- So I Play (1996)
- Zeitverdichtung (1987)
- Laterna Magica (1983)
Duo recordings
- Bernd Köppen/Theo Jörgensmann The story of Professor Unrat (2011)
- Theo Jörgensmann/Albrecht Maurer Melencolia (2011)
- Theo Jörgensmann/Karoly Binder in concert (2011 - recorded 1990)
- Theo Jörgensmann/Hagen Stüdemann Ourspace (2010)
- Theo Jörgensmann/Eckard Koltermann Pagine Gialle (1995)
- Theo Jörgensmann/John Fischer Radio Swiss Days Volume Three (1994)
- German Clarinet Duo Hommage à Jimmy Giuffre (1993)
- Károly BinderKároly BinderKároly 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...
featuring Theo Jörgensmann Live at Music Academy Budapest (1993) - Hans Günther Wauer/Theo Jörgensmann Introitus (1990)
- Károly Binder/Theo Jörgensmann In Budapest (1989)
- German Clarinet Duo Schwarzlicht (1987)
- Theo Jörgensmann/Bernd Köppen Für den letzten Gast (1986)
- John Fischer/Theo Jörgensmann Deep Blue Lake (1983)
As a sideman
- Ig Henneman Tentet, Indigo with Ab Baars, Lori Freedman, Wilbert de Joode, Tristan HonsingerTristan HonsingerTristan Honsinger is a cello player active in free jazz and free improvisation. He is perhaps best known for his long-running collaboration with free jazz pianist Cecil Taylor and guitarist Derek Bailey....
, Steve Arqûelles (1998) - Eckard Koltermann Collage 11, Achtung, wir senden with Toon de Gouw, Simon Nabatov (1990)
- Willem van Manen Contraband, Live at Bim Huis Amsterdam (1988)
- Franz Koglmann Pipetet, Schlaf Schlemmer, Schlaf Magritte (1985)
- Andrea Centazzo Mitteleuropa Orchestra, Doctor Faustus with Carlos ZingaroCarlos ZingaroCarlos Zíngaro is a Portuguese violinist and electronic musician active in free improvisation....
, Enrico Rava, Carlo Actis Dato, Albert MangelsdorffAlbert MangelsdorffAlbert Mangelsdorff was one of the most accredited and innovative trombonists of modern jazz who became famous for his distinctive technique of playing multiphonics.-Biography:...
, Gianluigi Trovesi, Franco Feruglio (1984) - John Fischer European Interface, The Breghenz Session with Melvyn Poore, Andrea Centazzo (1983)
- Georg Gräwe Grubenklangorchester, Bergmannsleben (1982)
- Clarinet Summit, You better fly away with John Carter, Perry Robinson, Eje ThelinEje ThelinEje Thelin was an innovative Swedish trombonist, widely admired among fellow trombonists for his facile technique and rhythmic intensity...
, Stan Tracey, Didier LockwoodDidier LockwoodDidier Lockwood is a French jazz violinist. He played in the progressive rock/jazz fusion band Magma in the 1970s and is known for his use of electric amplification and experimentation on different sounds on the electric violin....
, Gianluigi Trovesi, J.F. Jenny-Clark, Aldo Romano (1980) - Michael Sell Brass Ensemble, 5 Stücke f. 11 Instrumentalisten with Willem van Manen, Paul RutherfordPaul Rutherford (trombone player)Paul William Rutherford was an English free improvising trombonist.-Biography:Born in Greenwich, South East London, Rutherford initially played saxophone but switched to trombone...
(1979) - Hessischer Rundfunk Radio Recordings 1969-1993, Walzer für Sabinchen with Alexander von SchlippenbachAlexander von SchlippenbachAlexander von Schlippenbach is a German jazz pianist and composer.-Biography:...
, Günther Christmann, Peter KowaldPeter KowaldPeter 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...
, Rüdiger Carl, Paul Lovens (1973)
As a fusion musician
- Cinemascope - Oriental Traces (drizzly records 2010)
- Grotesk, Grotesk (1980) (republished on erlkönig records 2004)
Selected compositions
- Snijbloemen a composition for clarinet, vibes, bass and percussion. (2000) Recorded Hat-Hut records hatOLOGY 539
- Die Eroberung des Schönen an experimental opera for 3 writers, 1 actor, 1 painter and 1 musician. (1995) WDR-Tv production.
- Der Garten a dance-theater-piece for 2 dancers, clarinet, bass clarinet, sound-maschine and percussion. (1994) Choreography: Claudia Lichtblau. Composition: Theo Jörgensmann/Eckard Koltermann
- Hommage á Béla Bartók chamber music for violin, clarinet, bass clarinet and contra bass. (1994)
- Aesthetic direction chamber music for violin, violoncello, clarinet, bass clarinet and percussion (1993)
Theory
Jörgensmann wrote in his book Kleine Ethik der Improvisation:"To find the right balance between communication of motion and non-communication is the major part of improvised music; that communication of motion as a part of interaction in music is an opportunity to create a new structure of time, which the listener could perceive as a new kind of musical space; that the idea of jazz does not depend on a specific material and special form; that the essential aspect of jazz is the fact that jazz musicians discovered the fourth dimension of time in music (they call it swing)."
Publications
- Kleine Ethik der Improvisation: vom Wesen, Zeit und Raum, Material und Spontangestalt, by Theo Jörgensmann & Rolf-Dieter Weyer, with silhouettes of Hermann "Es" Richter ISBN 3-924-272-99-9