Gebhard Ullmann
Multi-instrumentalist Gebhard Ullmann (born on November 2, 1957) grew up near Bonn, studied medicine and music in Hamburg starting 1976, and moved to Berlin in 1983 to live as a professional musician. One year later, the 27-year-old was leading (and co-leading) his own bands, releasing his first albums in 1985. The next few years saw him working with Alexander Von Schlippenbach and Paul Bley (among many others) as well as touring the Middle East, East Africa, Australia, New Zealand, South East Asia, Turkey, Poland, Lithuania and Estonia. In 1990, he began his Ta Lam project, whose second recording brought together musicians from East and West Berlin's jazz and new music scenes; the album was nominated Best Jazz Record of 1994 by the German Schallplattenkritik. A compilation of the two Ta Lam releases (originally released on Germany's 99 Records) was released in 1998 by the Songlines label. Since the mid-90s, Ullmann has split his time between Berlin and New York, played in Gunter Lenz' Springtime, and occasionally collaborated on projects with actor Otto Sander. The end of the '90s found Ullmann playing in the Clarinet Trio, Trad Corrosion (with Phil Haynes and guitarist Andreas Willers, (a longtime collaborator), in Basement Research (his group with Ellery Eskelin (later replaced by Tony Malaby), Drew Gress, and Haynes) and in Conference Call, a cooperative quartet with Michael Jefry Stevens, Joe Fonda and Matt Wilson or Han Bennink on the drums. In 2001, he began working with the NDR Big Band (with Tom Rainey on drums), eventually releasing the Big Band Project in 2004 featuring arrangements of his compositions by Satoko Fujii, Andy Emler and others. While recording and touring with all these various projects, Ullmann still found time to perform with the likes of Hamid Drake, Lee Konitz, Herb Robertson, Bulgarian master Ivo Papasov and Tony Buck (the Necks) among others while touring. 2004 saw still more touring with Conference Call (now with George Schuller on the drums), the Clarinet Trio (augmented by Hans Hassler on accordion), and a new quintet version of Basement Research as well as releases by Conference Call, the aforementioned Big Band Project the third CD of the Clarinet Trio and Desert Songs & Other Landscapes with the Ullmann/Swell 4 featuring Barry Altschul on the drums. 2005 was a landmark year for Gebhard Ullmann, celebrating 20 years since his first release and debuting a new project: Bass X3 with Peter Herbert and Chris Dahlgren on basses and Ullmann on bass flute and bass clarinet.
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Basement Research Live in Münster
Jazz - Released by NotTwo on 14 Jul 2008
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Hemisphere 4 (feat. Liz Kosack, Silke Lange & Taiko Saito)
Jazz - Released by JazzHausMusik on 12 Oct 2023
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Transformations and Further Passages
Jurgen Kupke, Michael Thieke, Gebhard Ullmann
Jazz - Released by LEO RECORDS on 30 Apr 2022
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New Basement Research
Jazz - Released by Soul Note on 31 Dec 2007
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The Clarinet Trio 4
Jurgen Kupke, Michael Thieke, Gebhard Ullmann
Contemporary Jazz - Released by LEO RECORDS on 1 May 2011
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Ta Lam Zehn: Vancouver Concert
Jazz - Released by LEO RECORDS on 14 Sep 2004
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Hassler
Hans Hassler, Gebhard Ullmann, Jurgen Kupke, Beat Föllmi
Jazz - Released by Intakt Records on 23 Oct 2013
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Ballads and Other Related Objects
Gebhard Ullmann, Jurgen Kupke, Michael Thieke
Jazz - Released by LEO RECORDS on 1 Feb 2017
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Variations On A Master Plan
Jazz - Released by LEO RECORDS on 14 Sep 2004
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Moscow - Berlin
Gebhard Ullmann, Alexey Kruglov
Jazz - Released by Fancymusic on 13 Oct 2017
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Bassx3 - Transatlantic
Gebhard Ullmann, Chris Dahlgren, Thomas Clayton
Contemporary Jazz - Released by LEO RECORDS on 1 Jan 2012
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The Big Band Project
Jazz - Released by Soul Note on 31 Dec 2004
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Die Blaue Nixe
Gebhard Ullmann, Chris Dahlgren, Art Lande
Jazz - Released by Between The Lines on 1 Nov 2006
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Twelve + 1 Murals
Gebhard Ullmann, Philipp Gerschlauer
Jazz - Released by Between the Lines on 26 Apr 2024
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The Ullmann-Swell 4: News? No News! (Gebhard Ullmann)
Jazz - Released by Jazzwerkstatt on 1 Sep 2010
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Clarinet Trio Two
Classical - Released by LEO RECORDS on 5 Oct 2004
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