Thomas Heberer (musician)

Thomas Heberer (* September 24, 1965 in Schleswig ) is a German jazz trumpeter, flugelhorn player and keyboardist (electronic instruments, sampling) of the Creative Jazz.

Career and work

Heberer started playing the trumpet at the age of eleven. Until 1984 he studied with Manfred Schoof at the Musikhochschule in Cologne. He caused a sensation in 1990 with the release of the album Chicago Breakdown - The Music of Jelly Roll Morton, the trumpeter had recorded with bassist Dieter Manderscheid. They interpreted the classical repertoire of the Chicago Jazz on unusual, " deconstructive " way, Richard Cook and Brian Morton, as the title track Chicago Breakdown, the King Porter Stomp and the Buddy Bolden Blues. With Manderscheid, saxophonist Dirk Raulf and drummer Fritz Wittek he formed in the early 1990s the band " Tome XX". Furthermore Heberer worked with Aki Takase, the European Trumpet Summit, Gerd Dudek, Attila Zoller, Joachim Kühn, Evan Parker, David Moss, Frank Schulte and Tomasz Stanko.

Heberer was also a member of the Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra and also worked in the backing band of the Harald Schmidt Show. He plays since the early 1990s in the ICP Orchestra Misha Mengelberg. Furthermore, the trumpeter had 1990 production " The Wild Horses of the poor " by Norbert Stein Pata Orchestra, 1993 Alexander von Schlippenbach album "The Morlocks " (FMP ), 1996 Misha Mengelberg's The Root of the Problem ( Hatology ) with. In the same year he joined the occasion of the 20th Anniversary Tour " with the European Jazz Ensemble with Schoof, Conrad Bauer, Charlie Mariano, Joachim Kühn, inter alia, 2004 founded Heberer with the tuba player Carl Ludwig Pretty and drummer Christian Thomé formation Lip Lab.; in 2005 he participated in the recording of Norbert Stein Pata generator ( "Code Carnival" ) with and in 2007 he was a member of the James Choice Orchestra His solo music projects with loop effects operate under the name sloops. !.

Like on his first album The Heroic Millespede, reminiscent still strongly to music by Mark Isham, Heberer also experimented with electronic sounds. In the 1990s, built on the poise label, which he leads together with Dirk Raulf and Frank Schulte, the album Kill Yr Darlins with electronic instruments. To distinguish these activities from his jazz projects, Heberer uses the pseudonym " TOM " The choreographer Pina Bausch sat in her Tanztheater Wuppertal in the music of TOM in their performances one, as for the children of yesterday, today and tomorrow ( 2002) and Ten Chi ( 2004).

Awards and prizes

Heberer were, among others, the Prize of the German Record Critics, SWF Jazz Award and the "Jazz Style Award".

Discography

  • The Heroic Millepede (ITM, 1988) with Frank Köllges
  • Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra (ECM, 1989)
  • Heberer / Manderscheid Chicago Breakdown ( JazzHausMusik, 1990)
  • Sotto in Su - Vanitas featuring Sussan Deyhim (poise, 1994)
  • Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra - Live in Japan (DIW, 1996)
  • ICP Orchestra - Jubilee Varia ( Hatology, 1997)
  • ICP Orchestra - Oh! My Dog (ICP, 2001)
  • Heberer / Manderscheid Wanderlust ( JazzHausMusik, 2006)
  • Clarino (No Business, 2011)
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