Buschi Niebergall
Buschi Niebergall was a German free jazz musician. His given name was Hans-Helmut, and late in life, his friends called him Johannes.
Born in the city of Marburg into a family of academics, Niebergall enrolled in medical school. Playing acoustic guitar, he got in contact with other musicians and quit his studies. As double-bass player Niebergall became co-founder of several of the first and most influential Free Jazz formations of Germany during the mid-1960s. Gunter Hampel's quintet Heartplants and Voices by the Manfred Schoof quintet are two excellent examples of this independent European free jazz development.
A founding member of the Globe Unity Orchestra since 1966, Niebergall collaborated with many musicians playing freely improvised music, including Peter Brötzmann, Don Cherry, Alfred Harth, Evan Parker, Alexander von Schlippenbach, Irène Schweizer, and John Tchicai. During the early 1970s he played in Albert Mangelsdorff's various quartets and quintets. After 1980 he chose a life in isolation in Frankfurt a.M., with the exception of occasional stints within a "Jazz und Lyrik" project.
Discography
As co-leader
Listen/Hear with NICRAOpen with Gerd Dudek and Edward VesalaCeleste with Michel Pilz and Uwe SchmittAs sideman
With Peter BrötzmannMachine Gun Fuck de Boere Nipples More Nipples Born Free: The 12th German Jazz Festival one trackWith Marion BrownGesprächsfetzen
With the Globe Unity OrchestraGlobe Unity 67 & 70 Live in Wuppertal For Example — Workshop Freie Musik 1969-1978 one trackGlobe Unity '74: Der Alte Mann Bricht...sein Schweigen Bavarian Calypso/Goodbye Pearls Jahrmarkt/Local Fair Improvisations Compositions
With Alexander von SchlippenbachGlobe Unity The Living Music
With Manfred SchoofVoices Ozvěny Jazzového Festivalu Praha 1966 - Lucerna one trackThe Early Quintet Manfred Schoof Sextet Jazz Jamboree 67 Vol. 1 European Echoes
With Michael SellInnovationen für 10 Instrumente Jugoslawische Quartette
With othersHeartplants - Gunter Hampel The Numbered Improvisations - Bernd Alois Zimmermann International Holy Hill Jazz Meeting 1969 - various artists Actions - Don Cherry and Krzysztof Penderecki Birds of Underground - Albert Mangelsdorff Willi the Pig - John Tchicai and Irène Schweizer Atmospheric Conditions Permitting - Jazzensemble Des Hessischen Rundfunks Ballade An Der Ruhr - Jan Wallgren/Bengt Ernryd Group Jamabiko - Michel Pilz Quartett
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