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HakuMurr
I am Hans Kumpf, clarinetist, Germany
URLS.
http://www.rojac.co.at/kumpf
http://members.aol.comm/hakumurr/index.html
Please send me an e-mail when you have taken me in your site!
Hans Kumpf
was born on 8. June 1951 in Stuttgart (Germany). After receiving his
special
music diploma he graduated at Teacher's College Ludwigsburg in music,
German
philology and sociology (1970-74). Lessons at youth music schools
(clarinet,
jazz). Now he works as a teacher.
Hans Kumpf attended clinics for jazz and contemporary music in Remscheid,
Darmstadt, Antwerp and other places, where he studied with Franzpeter
Goebels, Johnny Griffin, Helmut Lachenmann, Erwin Lehn, Albert
Mangelsdorff,
Hans Deinzer and others.
Kumpf belonged to the organizing committees of jazz festivals in
Ludwigsburg
and the German Music Festival Stuttgart 1974. He was adviser for some
international festivals (Malta etc.), too.
As a clarinetist he played at the German Jazz Festivals Frankfurt: 1972
with
the group "AK Musick" and in 1976 with Theo Joergensmann's "Clarinet
Contrast". In 1975 he joined Wolfgang Dauner's "Radio Jazz Group
Stuttgart"
and did a recording session of clarinet duos with Perry Robinson. At the
"Top
People Poll 1979" by the readers of the magazine of the International Jazz
Federation, Jazz Forum, Kumpf was elected No. 5 clarinetist in Europe. In
August 1979 a 90-minute live broadcasting in New York radio WKCR and a
concert in John Fischer's loft "Environ" (feat. Perry Robinson, Peter
Kuhn,
Michael Moss, and Mark Whitecage). Another NYC session in 1990 (feat. John
Fischer, Mark Whitecage, Perry Robinson, Gunter Hampel). In 1986 a radio
production in Zuerich with John Fischer and Mark Whitecage. 1980-90 Kumpf
regularly visited the (former) USSR, he reported by radio broadcasts and
print media about the jazz scene in Eastern Europe. Kumpf's jam sessions
in
Leningrad/St. Petersburg, Moscow, Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius were released
on
records in the West. In November 1984 Hans Kumpf did a studio session with
the Romanian pianist Harry Tavitian. In the eighties he often played in
happenings with the artists' group "Hauptsach fertich", including an event
in
Venice/Italy. 1983/84 Kumpf was a singer/actor in the choir of the musical
"Cabaret" at the State Theater Stuttgart. In 1990 he was soloist of the
Youth
Jazz Orchestra Baden-Wuerttemberg in Bali.
Kumpf renewed the duo with Slovakian bass player Jan Jankeje for concerts
(like in Leipzig, Halle) and in order to perform at art exhibitions.
Together
with his wife Katarzyna (Kasia or "Kascha") Kumpf as a speaker and author,
he
created the programs "Polish Poetry & Jazz" and "Polish Fairytales &
Jazz".
The Polish bass player Vitold Rek cooperates with the Kumpfs.
Hans Kumpf held lectures about music and theory in Berlin, Koeln,
Darmstadt
and other towns and at the meetings of the Institute for International
Jazz
Research: 1977 in Schielleiten, Austria, and in 1980 in Hamburg. Reports
in
writing and photographs for many magazines, newspapers and radio stations,
for example SWF Radio Baden-Baden ("Pop-Shop"), SDR Radio Stuttgart
("Musikpodium International"), NDR Radio Hamburg ("Jazz Laboratorium"),
Neue
Musikzeitung, Musik und Bildung, Jazzthetik, Der Spiegel, Suedkurier, Tip,
Der Tagesspiegel, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Stuttgarter Nachrichten,
Sueddeutsche Zeitung.
Cover photos for HiFi-Stereophonie, Jazz Podium, Jazz Forum, Blues Notes,
Musik und Bildung, Bielefelder Jazz Katalog and many records. Photos in
books, like "Europas Jazz", "Klangspuren", "Re- clams Jazzfuehrer", "Chet
Baker in Europe", "75 Jahre Donaueschinger Musiktage" and "Moderne Musik
1965-1985". Photo exhibitions in Ludwigsburg, Nuernberg, Darmstadt,
Eisenach,
Nuertingen, Eberbach, Amsterdam, Moscow, Arkhangelsk, Vilnius.
Now, Hans Kumpf is a permanent contributor to Jazz Podium (Stuttgart),
Esslinger Zeitung, Bietigheimer Zeitung, Stuttgarter Nachrichten,
Ludwigsburger Kreiszeitung, Kornwestheimer Zeitung, Marbacher Zeitung,
"RoJaC
- Robert's Jazz Corner" and others. Some reviews are also available in the
Internet: http://www.rojac.co.at/kumpf/beitraege
BIBLIOGRAPHY
"Postserielle Musik und Free Jazz"
(2. Edition 1981, Rohrdorfer Musikverlag, ISBN 3-922438-06-7)
"Glotzmusik - Gesellschaftliche Rollen von Musik"
(1980, Rohrdorfer Musikverlag, ISBN 3-922438-01-6)
"M wie Maedchen", hrsg. von Evelyn Lattewitz, Beitrag ueber die
oekonomischen
und ideolgische Aspekte des deutschen Schlagers
(1978, Franckh-Verlag, Stuttgart)
"Jazz Forschung 10", hrsg. vom Institut fuer Jazzforschung an der
Musikhochschule Graz und der Internationalen Gesellschaft fuer
Jazzforschung,
"Zur Problematik von Jazzkritik"
(1978, Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, Graz)
"Jazz Forschung 12", "Jazz im Fernsehen der BRD"
(1980, Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, Graz)
"Jazzrock", hrsg. von Burghard Koenig, Wolfgang Dauner im Gespraech mit
Hans
Kumpf: "Synthesizer"
(1983, Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg)
"Russian Jazz - New Identity", edited by Leo Feigin, "1980 - 1984: Five
Trips
to Soviet Union"
(1985, Quartet Books Ltd., London)
"Darmstaedter Jazzforum 89", Beitraege zur Jazzforschung, "Sowjetischer
Jazz
- Erlebnisse und Bestandsaufnahme"
(1990, Wolke Verlag, Hofheim)
VIDEOGRAPHY
"EMSick Video", 1980, Ludwig Rehberg's Videosizer L 1
(Elektronik Musik Studio Ditzingen)
DISCOGRAPHY
"14/11/1972" - AK Musick feat. Helmut Grab/Shantiprem
(AKM 001)
"Free Blacks - Clarinet Duos" feat. Perry Robinson (+ W. Dauner)
(AKM 002)
"In Time" feat. Theo Joergensmann, Bernd Konrad
(AKM 003)
"Jam Session Leningrad" feat. Anatoly Vapirov, Sergey Kuryokhin, Alexander
Alexandrov
(FUSION 8004, AKM 004)
"Jam Session Moscow" feat. John Fischer, Leonid Chizhik, Alexey Zubov
(FUSION 8005, RE 005, AKM 005)
"On A Baltic Trip" feat. Vyacheslav Ganelin, Vladimir Tarasov, Ivars
Galenieks, Lembit Saarsalu, Rejn Rannap
(LR 122, AKM 006)
"East-West Creativ Combinations" feat. Harry Tavitian, Corneliu Stroe,
Reinhart Hammerschmidt
(ST 7001, Leader Jazz Records, Romania)
"Swiss Radio Days Vol. 4 - Travelog" feat. John Fischer, Mark Whitecage
(Distributed by NorthCountry Dist., Redwood, NY ReEntry RE 016)
FESTIVALS
1972 Frankfurt/D AK Musick
1976 Frankfurt/D Clarinet Contrast
1976 Oberhausen/D Clarinet Contrast
1977 Ludwigsburg/D AK Musick -J. Fischer, Clarinet-Contrast -G.
Hampel
1978 Stuttgart/D Kumpf-Jankeje-Bally-Trio + Zadlo/Nay
1982 Nuernberg/D solo
1984 Tallinn/SU-EST feat. Lembit Saarsalu
1985 Costinesti/RO feat. Creativ, Anca Parghel
1986 Le Mans/F feat. John Fischer
1988 Tallinn/SU-EST feat. Saarsalu, Galenieks, V. Makarov
1988 Costinesti/RO feat. Creativ - Harry Tavitian
1989 Moers/D feat. Sergey Kuryokhin, Vladimir Tarasov
1990 Moscow/SU-RUS feat. Andr. Solovyov + Kostikov
1993 Nuertingen/D feat. Jan Jankeje
1993 Eisenach/D solo
1994 Ingolstadt/D feat. Vitold Rek, Katarzyna Kumpf
(1997 Olsztyn/PL feat. Katarzyna Kumpf "Polish Poetry & Jazz"
CANCELLED)
Hans Kumpf
Benninger Weg 16
D-71711 Murr
Germany
Phone/Fax: (0049)-7144-21814
e-Mail: Haku...@aol.com
Personal home page: http://members.aol.com/hakumurr/index.html
BIOGRAPHY: http://www.rojac.co.at/kumpf