The Germany free jazz saxophonist Peter Brötzmann has died, The Guardian stories, citing the musician’s label, Trost Records. A explanation for dying was not introduced. The musician was 82 years previous.
Peter Brötzmann was born in Remscheid, West Germany, in 1941, and, earlier than breaking into the jazz world within the Sixties, he was finding out to be a painter. He was seen as an acolyte of Fluxus as a result of he assisted one of many motion’s pioneers, Nam June Paik, at a Galerie Parnass exhibition in 1963. “I took half in some Fluxus actions in Amsterdam the next 12 months,” Brötzmann recalled in a 2019 interview. “At the moment my aim nonetheless was to be a painter, music was at all times on the facet and crucial, nevertheless it was not the primary factor.” Paik, he stated, inspired him to pursue music.
Brötzmann launched his debut album, For Adolphe Sax, in 1967 by means of his personal label, Brö. He recorded the album, titularly devoted to the inventor of the saxophone, with bassist Peter Kowald and drummer Sven-Åke Johansson. The next 12 months, the Peter Brötzmann Octet launched the landmark free jazz album Machine Gun. The report’s title got here from a nickname that trumpeter Don Cherry had given Brötzmann. Revisiting Machine Gun for Pitchfork in 2017, Mark Richardson wrote:
Members of the octet—specifically tenor saxophonist Evan Parker, drummer Han Bennink, and pianist Fred Van Hove—reconvened with Brötzmann the following 12 months for his remaining report of the Sixties, Nipples. Over 50 years later, Jimmy Fallon featured Nipples in The Tonight Present’s “Do Not Play List” phase, which neither amused nor bothered Brötzmann. “We each know that the world is filled with ignorants and stupidos, one roughly, who cares,” he stated.
All through his profession, Brötzmann launched over 50 albums as a bandleader. His most up-to-date releases, Catching Ghosts and Naked Nudes, got here out this previous April and March, respectively. Brötzmann additionally recorded with Cecil Taylor, Keiji Haino, and extra, and he was beloved by former President Bill Clinton, amongst many others.
