Home » Jazz Musicians » Gunter Hampel
Gunter Hampel
A variety of instruments began to occupy his hands including clarinet, vibes, saxophone, accordion and flute. Soon he was composing. He toured Europe with many groups, including his own, and worked with Don Cherry, Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, Anthony Braxton, Steve McCall, Marion Brown, Lester Bowie, and his wife Jeanne Lee, to name just a few.
In 1969, he moved to New York, where Gunter founded his own recording label -- BIRTH RECORDS
Photo Credit: Hans Kumpf
Tags
Marion Brown: Three For Shepp To Gesprachsfetzen Revisited
by Chris May
"It is often those we hear the least that we should listen to the most." So wrote the Guadeloupean pianist Jonathan Jurion on the release of his album Le Temps Fou: The Music Of Marion Brown (Komos, 2019). Just why Marion Brown has become such a rarely acknowledged figure is unclear. He possessed all the qualifications needed to go large plus a few extras for good measure. He was a good-looking man. He dressed well (telling Dave ...
read moreGunter Hampel: Vibes Vibes (Vibrafon Solos 2008)
by Marc Medwin
Glass, shimmer, impressionism and cool all vie for prominence throughout these excursions into the multiplicitous world multi-instrumentalist Gunter Hampel creates on every solo . Logical proportions are exposed only to disappear; tones glisten, swell and fade, either in rapid succession or in glacial dance. This is only the second solo release from the prolific improviser on his own label, a company which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year and a more fitting one would be hard to imagine.
read moreGunter Hampel Group: Music From Europe
by Jerry D'Souza
Gunter Hampel (vibraphone, bass clarinet and flute) grew up studying German folk and European classical music. When he was eight he heard Louis Armstrong and jazz for the first time. Though he did not understand a word of English, he felt Armstrong communicating with him. This had an indelible influence and Hampel went on to win several jazz competitions. Hampel became a professional jazz musician in 1958 when he was 21. His ideas moved in a different direction ...
read moreGunter Hampel Group: Music From Europe
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Although it is simply called Music From Europe, the Gunter Hampel Group's first foray into America in 1966, could well have joined the ranks of several early (1950s) recordings by MJQ or John Lewis and Dizzy Gillespie's Perceptions (Verve, 1961) as one of those earliest examples of where the musical cultures of classical Europe and jazz USA collide. Perhaps the title is even deliberate; a tongue-in-cheek reminder that jazz--although, in its absolute form a musical idiom evolved ...
read moreDances; On Fire Hierseins-Erfahrungen; Emission
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Musical vanguardist and multi-instrumentalist Gunter Hampel has been under the spell of jazz since the end of WWII. By the end of the '50s, he was already a full-fledged European professional jazz musician and by the '60s, he had made lasting inroads into the North American jazz scene. Operating out of Germany and the USA, after living in New York and several European cities throughout his life, Hampel continues to be active at jazz' leading edge. His notable career involves ...
read moreGunter Hampel: Bringing Music to the People
by AAJ Staff
Submitted on behalf of Gunter Hampel. As a composer, arranger, bandleader and now the owner of BIRTH Records, I have been undergoing changes in publishing my music on LPs, CDs, cassettes and video. As a new carrier, the DVD has arrived and seems to be the new way of bringing music to the people. Actually, in the '80s, when CDs were coming out, I didn't believe it as the successor to the the LP. The ...
read moreGunter Hampel: Bringing Music to the People
by AAJ Staff
By Gunter Hampel As a composer, arranger, bandleader and now the owner of BIRTH Records, I have been undergoing changes in publishing my music on LPs, CDs, cassettes and video. As a new carrier, the DVD has arrived and seems to be the new way of bringing music to the people. Actually, in the '80s, when CDs were coming out, I didn't believe it as the successor to the the LP. The CD did ...
read moreGunter Hampel Vibes-BCL-Flute & Haitian Vodou Percussions Poets Club Bowery -New York
Source:
All About Jazz
GUNTER HAMPEL IN NEW YORK march 1-april 7th performance update upcoming live performances
march 1st 5 pm Hunter College -black box-Room HN 543 performing SOLO on vibes, bassclarinet, flute in VARIETY , free admission hunter college 68 str betw par and lexington, northside
march 13 6 pm Hunter College -lang theatre 4th floor -MOVING IMAGES by ruomi lee hampel + father&son performance + many acts from hunter college-free admission
march 17 th 1o pm bowery poets club ESP-disk presents:GUNTER HAMPEL ...
read more
The Vision Club presents Gunter Hampel w/ Perry Robinson 10pm + 11pm Kali Z. Fasteau Saturday, March 26
Source:
All About Jazz
March 16, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: The Vision Festival / www.visionfestival.org PRESS Contact: Jim Eigo [email protected] / 845.986.1677 Non-press inquiries, call 212.696.6681 or send email to [email protected] A R T S F O R A R T 508 East 6th Street #3, NYC 10009 Saturday March 26, 2005 THE VISION CLUB presents 10pm Gunter Hampel w/ Perry Robinson Barry Altschul, Herschel Silverman 11pm Kali Z. Fasteau w/ Sabir Mateen, Lewis Barnes Michael Thompson At Clemente Soto Velez - LES Gallery ...
read more
"Musical vanguardist and multi-instrumentalist (bass clarinet, flute, and vibes), Gunter Hampel has been under the spell of jazz since the end of WWII. By the end of the ‘50s, he was already a full-fledged European professional jazz musician and by the ‘60s, he had made lasting inroads into the North American jazz scene. Operating out of Germany and the USA, after living in New York and several European cities throughout his life, Hampel continues to be active at jazz’ leading edge. His notable career involves encyclopedic collaboration with North American and continental jazz legends, as well as a much younger generation of players." ~~~ Javier Antonio Quiñones Ortiz, AAJ
Photos
Music
Videos
Gunter Hampel
Instrument: Woodwinds
Born: August 31, 1937
