Till Brönner

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Till Brönner (born 1971 in Viersen/ Germany and raised in Rome/ Italy) is a jazz musician, trumpet player, singer, composer, arranger and producer. He has a unique jazz approach influenced by bebop and fusion jazz, but also modern pop music, movie soundtracks (especially old German movies), country music and even German carnival songs.

Classical trumpet education at the Aloisiuskolleg jesuit boarding school followed by a study of the jazz trumpet at the music academy in Cologne under professors Jiggs Whigham and Jon Eardley.

1989 - 1991: Member of the Peter Herbolzheimer Rhythm Combination & Brass.

1991 - 1998: At the age of only 20 he became solo trumpet player of the renowned RIAS Big Band Berlin under Horst Jankowski and Jiggs Whigham.

1993: First solo album "Generations of Jazz" (with Ray Brown, Jeff Hamilton, Frank Chastenier and Gregoire Peters) which won several awards: "Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik" and "Preis der Deutschen Plattenindustrie".

Brönner worked with a lot of musicians of international fame such as Dave Brubeck, James Moody, Monty Alexander, Aki Takase, Joachim Kühn, Chaka Khan, Natalie Cole, Tony Bennett, Ray Brown, Johnny Griffin, Ernie Watts, Klaus Doldinger, Nils Landgren, Al Foster and others.

1998: First album on Verve ("Love") with his first appearance as a jazz singer. Concert tours in Japan and a Gold Disc Award by the Japanese "Swing Journal".

1999: Song writer and producer for Hildegard Knef's album "Aber schön war es doch".

2001: Movie soundtrack for "Jazz Seen" (a movie about the jazz photographer William Claxton).

2003: Concert tour with the soul singer Joy Denalane.

2005: The album "That Summer" (featuring the classical piano player Zoltán Kocsis) reached rank 17 in the German pop charts. He's now the best selling German jazz artist of all times. Brönner also wrote the movie soundtrack for Pepe Danquart's "Höllentour" (English title: "Hell On Wheels"; a movie about the "Tour de France" bicycle race). The soundtrack was nominated for a German Movie Award in the category "Best Music Score".

2006: Release of his most recent album "Oceana", recorded in Los Angeles and produced by Larry Klein (former producer of Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen and Peter Gabriel). Guest stars on "Oceana" are Madeleine Peyroux, Luciana Souza and the singing top model Carla Bruni. In July he played at the famous Jazz Festival in Montreux (Switzerland).

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