Heinz Sauer
Heinz Sauer (born December 25, 1932, Merseburg) is a German jazz saxophonist. Sauer was an autodidact on tenor saxophone and began his career playing locally around Frankfurt in the 1950s. He played for many years in Albert Mangelsdorff's ensemble, as well as the Jazzensemble des Hessischen Rundfunks and the German All Stars.
Heinz Sauer
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- Name
- Heinz Sauer
- Born
- 25 December 1932
- Birthplace
- Merseburg, Germany
- Occupation
- Musician
- Nationality
- Germany
- Fields
- jazz · big band
- Honours
- Jazz Award Hesse
- Languages
- German
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He worked often with Bob Degen, and has also performed or recorded with musicians such as Ralf Hübner, Günter Lenz, Stefan Schmolck, and Manfred Schoof. In the 1990s he began experimenting with the use of electronic processing on his saxophones. In the 2000s among others he performed in a trio with Christopher Dell (vibraphones) and Bertram Ritter (percussion) and a duo with Michael Wollny. He received several prestigious German awards such as "Deutscher Jazzpreis" (1999), "SWR-Jazzpreis" (2008) and several times the "Deutscher Schallplattenpreis"("German Record Critics' Award").
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• Name — Heinz Sauer • Born — 25 December 1932 • Birthplace — Merseburg, Germany • Genre — Jazz • Occupation — Musician • Instrument — Saxophone
Discography
• Ellingtonia Revisited! (L+R, 1980) • Blues After Sunrise (L+R, 1983) • Melancholia (ACT, 2005) • Certain Beauty (ACT, 2006) • The Journey (ACT, 2008) • If (Blue) Then (Blue) (ACT, 2010) • Plaza Lost and Found (L+R, 2012) • Don't Explain (ACT, 2012) • Hamburg Episode (Art of Groove, 2015) • Europaischer Jazz 2016 (Infraserv Hochst, 2016)
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- 1.Ulrich Olshausen [CD der Woche: Jenseits der Stile] Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 29. Januar 2010
- 2.Ulrich Olshausen, Zauber der Beharrlichkeit: Heinz Sauer. In: Wolfgang Sandner: Jazz in Frankfurt. S. 54
- 3.20121130105741. Don't Explain (CD der Woche), NDR.
- 4.Hans-Jürgen Linke. Die Bildung des eigenen Tons: Rainer Wieczoreks literarisches Porträt des Musikers Heinz Sauer. Frankfurter Rundschau. 2021-03-14.
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