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Manfred Kniel (born 1951) is a German drummer, percussionist and composer of jazz and free improvisation.
Kniel studied percussion at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart until 1976 and has been a professional musician since 1976. From 1973 to 1984, he was a drummer in the "Frédéric Rabold Crew" and in the "Jazz Inspiration Orchestra". In addition, he belonged to the quartet of Lauren Newton, whose album Timbre (re-released as Filigree) was awarded the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik. From 1984 to 1996, he toured with Ekkehard Rössle 's quartet, with Mah-Jong SaxString, Jazz it and with his own formations Sweet Emma and Human Music Quintet (HuMus). Between 1984 and 1997, he also took part in more than 30 musical productions under the direction of Nicolas Kemmer. He also belonged to Friedemann's ensemble at the (Aquamarin Orchester in Concert). [1]
In 2003, Kniel founded the internationally acclaimed group The Reduction Quartet, which, like the duo Fifty-Fifty, which he forms with Ekkehard Rössle, aims to play a minimalist influenced jazz. With the cellist Fried Dähn and the sound artist Klaus Feßmann he formed the Ensemble Klangstein, in which he played an Orchestral percussion made of water and stone (?). In 2008, he performed with this project on Stefan Raab's TV Total, and in 2009 at the TFF Rudolstadt.
Since 1984, Kniel has been a lecturer at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart in the field of percussion and jazz rhythm.
Maxwell Lemuel Roach was an American jazz drummer and composer. A pioneer of bebop, he worked in many other styles of music, and is generally considered one of the most important drummers in history. He worked with many famous jazz musicians, including Clifford Brown, Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Abbey Lincoln, Dinah Washington, Charles Mingus, Billy Eckstine, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, Eric Dolphy, and Booker Little. He was inducted into the DownBeat Hall of Fame in 1980 and the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1992.
Keith Jarrett is an American jazz and classical music pianist and composer. Jarrett started his career with Art Blakey and later moved on to play with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s, he has also been a group leader and solo performer in jazz, jazz fusion, and classical music. His improvisations draw from the traditions of jazz and other genres, including Western classical music, gospel, blues, and ethnic folk music.
Helmut Friedrich Lachenmann is a German composer of contemporary classical music. His work has been associated with "instrumental musique concrète".
Henry Threadgill is an American composer, saxophonist and flautist. He came to prominence in the 1970s leading ensembles rooted in jazz but with unusual instrumentation and often incorporating other genres of music. He has performed and recorded with several ensembles: Air, Aggregation Orb, Make a Move, the seven-piece Henry Threadgill Sextett, the twenty-piece Society Situation Dance Band, Very Very Circus, X-75, and Zooid.
The Art Ensemble of Chicago is an avant-garde jazz group that grew out of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) in the late 1960s. The ensemble integrates many jazz styles and plays many instruments, including "little instruments": bells, bicycle horns, birthday party noisemakers, wind chimes, and various forms of percussion. The musicians would wear costumes and face paint while performing. These characteristics combined to make the ensemble's performances both aural and visual. While playing in Europe in 1969, five hundred instruments were used.
Barry Altschul is a free jazz and hard bop drummer who first came to notice in the late 1960s for performing with pianists Paul Bley and Chick Corea.
Albert Mangelsdorff was a German jazz trombonist. Working mainly in free jazz, he was an innovator in multiphonics.
Theodor Franz Jörgensmann is a German jazz clarinetist.
Pierre Courbois is a Dutch jazz drummer, bandleader, and composer.
Emil Mangelsdorff was a German jazz musician who played alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, clarinet and flute. He was a jazz pioneer under the Nazi regime which led to his imprisonment. After World War II and years as a prisoner of war, he was a founding member of the jazz ensemble of Hessischer Rundfunk in 1958. He played with several groups and was active, also as an educator, until old age.
Stafford James is an American double-bassist and composer.
Rainer Brüninghaus is a German jazz pianist, composer and university teacher.
In the Light is a double album of contemporary classical music by Keith Jarrett which was recorded and released on the ECM label in April 1974 as ECM 1033/34.
First House was a British jazz quartet that was active between 1983 and 1990. Founded and led by saxophonist and composer Ken Stubbs, the group also consisted of Django Bates on piano, Mick Hutton on acoustic bass and Martin France on drum kit and percussion.
Annesley Black is a Canadian composer.
Alan Laurillard is a Canadian composer, workshop leader, saxophonist, keyboard player and sample artist, living in the Netherlands and Bulgaria. He plays jazz, improvisational music and non-Western music. For his work as a musician, orchestral and workshop leader, and driver of the jazz scene in Groningen, Laurillard received the Boy Edgar Prize in 1982, the most important jazz award in The Netherlands, and four years later received the Henri de Wolf Jazz Prize.
Niko Schäuble is a German-Australian jazz drummer, composer and sound engineer.
Jo Thönes is a German percussionist, Jazz drummer and composer.
Michael Svoboda is an American composer and trombonist who lives and works in Switzerland.
Hannes Zerbe is a German jazz composer and pianist.
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