Max Brüel

Max Brüel (* July 14, 1927 in Hillerd; † 31 March 1995 Ponches ) was a Danish jazz musician ( piano, alto tenor and baritone saxophone), architect and painter.

Max Brüel was one of the pioneers and leading soloists of the Danish postwar jazz. With bassist Erik Moseholm (1930-2012) and trumpeter Jørgen Ryg (1927-1981), he represented the Danish jazz in bebop. He was known as a jazz musician in 1949, first as a saxophonist, then in 1951 as a baritone and from 1957 as a tenor saxophonist. In 1954, he performed at the Paris Jazz Festival. He belonged to a post-war generation of musicians who wanted to play modern jazz, even if it had to be on an amateur basis. Some recordings are preserved. In the late 1960s he was involved as a musician still on recordings by John Tchicai ( cadentia Nova Danica, Afrodisiaca ).

Since the 1950s, Brüel worked as an architect. In 1956 he founded together with Gehrdt Bornebusch, Henning Larsen and Jørgen Selchau an architectural firm that designed especially public utility buildings, including the tallest building in Denmark to date, the County Hospital in Herlev. In 1985 he moved to Portugal, where he worked as a painter.

From 1951 to 1962 he was married to the actress and singer Birgit Brüel, with whom he had twin daughters born in 1952.

Auswahldiskographie

• Max Brüel - Recordings 1950-1957 (Music Mecca )