Barbara Dennerlein
Barbara Dennerlein ( born September 25, 1964 in Munich) is a German jazz musician. They helped the Hammond organ in jazz mid-1980s in Germany to a new popularity.
Biography
At age 11, Barbara received as a Christmas gift a single-manual electronic organ and immediately began organ lessons. There, faced with a Hammond B3 organ, an instrument with two manuals and pedal, she asked her parents shortly after Christmas, a bigger organ to buy in order to learn to play the organ properly.
After about one and a half years, Barbara formed autodidactically. Soon followed by first appearances at various events as well as 15 years, the first professional engagement in a jazz club in the school holidays. Soon she took over the function of the bandleader in an environment of mostly male and significantly older fellow musicians with years of professional experience.
Their early reputation as Organ tornado from Munich led in 1982 to the first television appearances, like in Michael Schanze broadcast Would you have today ' time for us? to promote young musical talent. In 1983, the first record was recorded as live recording, a year later, the first studio album. The third album was released in 1985 Bebab on the eponymous own label of musician and was awarded the Prize of the German Record Critics' Award, which made them known to a wider audience.
Work
Concert tours throughout Europe followed, in 1988 they were in East Berlin a radiated from the East German television concert that unlawfully appeared on CD later. 1989 their Hammond B3 was supplemented with MIDI technology so that the pedal and manuals now additionally strange tone generator (synthesizer, sampler ) could be controlled. The one or both played on the pedal Bass thereby received more bite and heard since then with the Dennerlein sound. This technique differs from previous Dennerlein Jazz organists such as Jimmy Smith, who play with the left hand, the continuous bass accompaniment. The space gained Dennerlein uses for frequent changes in sound settings during the performance, which are also characteristic of their game.
In the late 1980s several band projects and collaborations emerged, including Jürgen Seefeld, Peter Herbolzheimer and with Friedrich Gulda, enfant terrible of the classical music scene commuters to jazz, was released in 1989, the CD " Live On Tour " with trumpeter Oscar Klein and Charly Antolini on drums (CD Bebab 250965, taken at Jazzland in Vienna). In 1994, she sat down for the first time at the Bach - days in Würzburg with the church organ apart. In the following years a series of concerts with jazz on the church organ, which resulted in the production of an album in 2002 was born. Since 2003, develop, Barbara and her arranger and saxophonist Peter Lehel Hammond Orchestra meets another jazz format in cooperation with symphony orchestras.
Mainly plays Dennerlein Jazz on the Hammond organ, both solo and in a duo with percussion accompaniment, as well as their formation in Bebab trio to quintet. Their international presence now, it has established in the second half of the 1990s with three at the international jazz label Verve albums released. For these shots, she won such prestigious jazz musicians such as Ray Anderson, Randy Brecker, Dennis Chambers, Roy Hargrove, Mitch Watkins and Jeff Tain Watts.
Barbara Dennerlein composed since the beginning of her career. Even her 18- years -rehearsed first album contained four original compositions. Stylistically, it breaks a number of ways from the classic blues schema romantic-melancholic ballads to tempo driven compositions, influenced by elements of swing, bebop and Latin-American rhythms. Dennerlein game is based, unlike many of her colleagues, not to Jimmy Smith. The fast pace, frequent mark of their interpretations of known standards at the beginning of her career, challenges in our own numerous pieces for discerning bass pedal play. Sometimes paired with pace, but also in slower pieces, Barbara Dennerlein is like a deliberately odd time signatures and time changes. In the ballads unconventional harmonic changes unfold a narrative, pictorial effect.