Rüdiger Baldauf

Rüdiger Baldauf ( born January 31, 1961 in Bensberg ) is a German jazz trumpeter.

Life

Baldauf made ​​1980 a high school on the Nicolaus Cusanus - Gymnasium in Bergisch Gladbach. He previously played in the school orchestra and big band school. Then Baldauf studied at the Musikhochschule Köln Aachen Dept., then as a fellow at the Karajan Foundation in Berlin classical trumpet. Among his teachers were Robert Platt and the Dutch jazz trumpeter Ack van Rooyen.

Baldauf graduated from a classical music education, but his preference was for early jazz, funk and soul. As different musical worlds is classical trumpet literature as well on Bald supervisors agenda as new music by Mauricio Kagel.

Baldauf has played with James Brown, Liza Minnelli, Seal, Shirley Bassey, Michael Buble, as well as the Ensemble Pro Brass and various symphony orchestras. He also went on tour with Maceo Parker, Joe Zawinul, Shirley Bassey, Udo Jürgens, Jennifer Rush and Barbra Streisand. From 1999 to 2002 he was a member of the United Jazz Rock Ensemble. He belonged since 1992 to the Paul Kuhn Orchestra and is a regular guest musician in German radio big bands, in particular the WDR Big Band Cologne.

From 1989 to 1999 he was professor of jazz trumpet at the Cologne College of Music Dept. Aachen. In addition to teaching on trumpeter and big band seminars and workshops he has been a guest lecturer at the Folkwang Musikhochschule Essen.

The studio musicians worked in the late 1980s and the 1990s to about 100 studio albums and went on tour with the orchestra. He was also a member of the RTL Allstars in the first German comedy television show RTL Saturday night. Since 2003 he plays totally in Stefan Raab's Tonight Show TV in the heavy tones, with which he accompanied many world stars from all genres, such as Lionel Ritchie, the soprano Cecilia Bartoli, or Popstar Jamie Cullum.

In June 2010 he released his first album under his own auspices Own Style with guests from the jazz scene, as Till Bronner, Nils Landgren, Ack van Rooyen, Andy Haderer and Max Mutzke. Here he made ​​his first appearance as a composer and arranger in appearance. The album was in July 2010, # 21 of the " Top 30 Jazz albums" of the Media Control Charts. Since 2010 he has also found his own project Own Style on festivals, including with Billy Cobham, Eric Marienthal, Jimmy Haslip and Ack van Rooyen. In 2013 he released his third solo album with vocal guests, including with Edo Zanki and Cosmo Klein.

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Publications

• 2012 Play Your Own Style. Voggenreiter Verlag ( playalong book with CD )
• 2012 The Trumpet Buying Guide Buying Guide for the trumpet case. Voggenreiter Verlag, ISBN 978-3802409417

Lexical entries

• Jürgen Wölfer Jazz in Germany - The lexicon. All musicians and record companies from 1920 to today. Hannibal Verlag yards in 2008, ISBN 978-3-85445-274-4