Bob Degen
Robert William " Bob" Degen ( born January 24, 1944 in Scranton, Pennsylvania ) is an American pianist and composer of modern jazz. Since the 1970s, he is considered " important part of the German, especially the Frankfurt Jazz Scene" ( Jürgen Wölfer ).
Life
Degen, who attended an early age with his father, jazz concerts in New York, studied until 1965 at the Berklee School of Music with Margaret Chaloff, who taught, among other things Herbie Hancock and Steve Kuhn.
After a short stay in Germany in 1966 made the sword Gulda Competition attention to himself and returned to the United States, where he worked with Mark Levinson and Paul Motian, and with the Glenn Miller Band under Buddy DeFranco. In the early 1970s he toured with Sadao Watanabe of Japan, where he was celebrated as a star. From 1972 he is working again - of Sulzbach Taunus from - in Germany (temporarily at the beginning of the new millennium in the U.S.), where he played with Albert Mangelsdorff and until 1999 a member of the jazz ensemble was the Hessischer Rundfunk. In the groups voices and Springtime it came to the long-standing collaboration with the radio colleague Heinz Sauer ( duo, quartet ) and Günter Lenz.
Other partners include, inter alia, Dexter Gordon, Art Farmer, Lee Konitz, Attila Zoller, Leo Wright, Hans Koller, Makaya Ntshoko, Adel Roidinger, Zbigniew Namysłowski, Bill Stewart, Gerd Dudek, Wolfgang Engstfeld, Wolfgang Lackerschmid, Terumasa Hino, Tony Lakatos, Claudia Carbo, Cameron Brown and Jürgen Wuchner and Janusz Stefanski.
The game of Bill Evans and Paul Bley have influenced him. He received the 1994 Jazz Prize of the State of Hesse.
Auswahldiskographie
- Celebrations ( 1968)
- Ellingtonia Revisited (1981, with Sauer)
- Jazz Ensemble of the Hessischer Rundfunk: Atmospheric Conditions Permitting (1967-1993)
- Charlie Mariano: Deep In A Dream (2001)
- Michel Pilz / Bob Degen: Tilly 's Eyes ( Jazz House Music 2011 )
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