Johannes "Hannes" Bauer (22 July 1954 – 6 May 2016) was a German

trombonist The trombone (, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's lips vibrate inside a mouthpiece, causing the air column inside the instrument to ...

of improvised music and

free jazz Free jazz, or free form in the early to mid-1970s, is a style of avant-garde jazz or an experimental approach to jazz improvisation that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when musicians attempted to change or break down jazz conventi ...

. He was the brother of the trombonist

Conny Bauer Konrad "Conny" Bauer (born 4 July 1943) is a German free jazz trombonist. He is the brother of the trombonist Johannes Bauer. As a student at senior high school in Sonneberg between 1957 and 1961, he was enthusiastic about modern music and dan ...

. He was born in Halle. From 1979 onwards, he worked as a freelance musician in Berlin. Among others, he worked with the following groups: the Manfred Schulze ''Wind Quintet'','' Doppelmoppel'' (with Conny Bauer, Uwe Kropinski, and Helmut "Joe" Sachse),'' Slawterhaus'' (with Jon Rose, Peter Hollinger, and Dietmar Diesner), ''Futch'' (with

Thomas Lehn Thomas Lehn (born 1958 in Fröndenberg) is a German piano and synthesizer player active in free improvisation and contemporary music. Lehn has recorded with Marcus Schmickler, Keith Rowe, John Butcher, Phil Minton, Phil Durrant, Radu Malf ...

and

Jon Rose Jonathan Anthony Rose (born 19 February 1951) is an Australian violinist, cellist, composer, and multimedia artist. Rose's work is centered in the experimental music known as free improvisation, where he has created large environmental multimed ...

Ken Vandermark Ken Vandermark (born September 22, 1964) is an American composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist. A fixture on the Chicago-area music scene since the 1990s, Vandermark has earned wide critical praise for his playing and his multilayered composit ...

''Territory Band'', and the

Peter Brötzmann Peter Brötzmann (6 March 1941 – 22 June 2023) was a German jazz saxophonist and clarinetist regarded as a central and pioneering figure in European free jazz. Throughout his career, he released over fifty albums as a bandleader. Amongst his m ...

Tentet. Bauer died on 6 May 2016 at the age of 61.

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homepage Hannes Bauer

1954 births 2016 deaths Free jazz trombonists German jazz trombonists German male trombonists Musicians from Halle (Saale) German male jazz musicians Globe Unity Orchestra members Intakt Records artists FMP/Free Music Production artists {{Germany-musician-stub