Uli Beckerhoff
Ulrich " Uli " Beckerhoff (December 6, 1947 in Münster ) is a German jazz musician (trumpet and flugelhorn). He is since 1991 professor of jazz trumpet and ensemble conducting at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen.
Life and work
Uli Becker Hoff first studied law, then music in Münster and Cologne. At the International Jazz Jamboree in Osnabrück, he received in 1966 and 1967, the first prize as best trumpeter. First international He caused a sensation at the jazz festival in Loosdrecht (The Netherlands ), where he also took the 1st prize as a trumpeter.
With saxophonist Wolfgang Engstfeld he founded the early 1970s, the quintet jazz track, which included bassist Sigi Busch, the drummer Heinrich Hock as well as changing pianists. He then co-founded the groups Riot ( with Andy Lumpp ) and changes with which he also undertook concert tours through Europe, produced a number of boards and appeared to almost every major jazz festivals in Europe.
Between 1970 and 1985 cemented his reputation Beckerhoff a tech savvy, sensitive and gifted with a wide range of expression trumpeter and composer who has earned him a growing reputation. He was invited in 1973 and 1974 by Joachim Ernst Berendt for New Jazz Meeting Baden -Baden and played with the Michael Gibbs Orchestra in 1975 at the Berlin Jazz Festival. In 1976, he represented the ARD at the EBU concert in Barcelona. In 1977 he was invited to an international Trumpet Summit to Amsterdam.
1979 invited the jazz guitarist Volker Kriegel it together with a Engstfeld sponsored by the Goethe -Institut Africa tour of his Mild Maniac Orchestra one. At the invitation of the government Artist Agency Beckerhoff occurred in the former GDR. With jazz track he was awarded the 1st prize of the Westphalian Art Association in Munster as well as a soloist the sponsorship music of the city of Bremen. In addition, since the beginning of the 1970s he worked as a teacher, as among other jazz workshops in Trossingen, Münster, Weikersheim, Bremen and Burghausen.
From the mid- 1980s Beckerhoff began a solo career; he played mainly with his own bands and projects and took first plates under his own name on. In 1983 he founded the Uli Becker Hoff Group, which played at the beginning, among other Christof Lauer, Bob Degen, Gunnar Plumer, John Marshall and Thomas Cremer. Since 1992, the band played in a cast with Matthias Nadolny, Michael Berger, Gunnar Plümer and Jo Thönes. In 1987 and 1988 he played in parallel Uli Becker Hoff Trio with Jasper van't Hof and John Marshall.
Beckerhoff is regarded as a virtuoso trumpet player with an extraordinary range and interesting sound.
Over the years Beckerhoff worked with many German and international jazz musicians, including Stan Getz, Leon Thomas, Manfred Schoof, Albert Mangelsdorff, Joachim Kühn, Zbigniew Seifert, John Taylor, Adel Roidinger, John Abercrombie, Maria Joao, Norma Winstone, Jon Balke, Arild Andersen, Jon Christensen, Alex Riel, Marilyn Mazur and Michel Herr. He helped also with the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble.
With the Australian dancer and choreographer Rhys Martin, he developed the late 80s, the audition piece, which was performed with great success at the theaters in Basel, Bochum, Bremen, Dusseldorf and Freiburg im Breisgau.
As a composer Beckerhoff received orders for film scores as well as for radio productions; he wrote for the NDR Big Band and Symphony Orchestra.