Chronicles of Jazz Oli Bott

• Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937), Oli Bott (b. 1974): Bolero:
• 1 Ravel, Bott: Bolero 06:47
• Duke Ellington (1899 - 1974), Oli Bott: Caravan:
• 2 Ellington, Bott: Caravan 04:54
• John Coltrane (1926 - 1967), Oli Bott: Equinox:
• 3 Coltrane, Bott: Equinox 03:58
• Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907), Oli Bott: In Der Halle Des Bergkoenigs:
• 4 Grieg, Bott: In Der Halle Des Bergkoenigs 02:24
• John Coltrane, Oli Bott: Mr. P.C:
• 5 Coltrane, Bott: Mr. P.C 02:09
• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750), Oli Bott: Sonata IV Allemande:
• 6 Bach, Bott: Sonata IV Allemande 04:03
• Metallica, Oli Bott: Nothing Else Matters:
• 7 Metallica, Bott: Nothing Else Matters 04:41
• Erik Satie (1866 - 1925), Oli Bott: Premiere Gnossienne:
• 8 Satie, Bott: Premiere Gnossienne 02:36
• Milt Jackson (1923 - 1999), Oli Bott: Bag's Groove:
• 9 Jackson, Bott: Bag's Groove 02:02
• Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741), Ray Hendersen (1896 - 1970), Oli Bott: Bye Bye Blackbird and Primavara:
• 10 Vivaldi, Hendersen, Bott: Bye Bye Blackbird and Primavara 05:58
• Georges Bizet (1838 - 1875), Oli Bott: Habanera:
• 11 Bizet, Bott: Habanera 04:53
• Sholom Secunda (1894 - 1974), Oli Bott: Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen:
• 12 Secunda, Bott: Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen 01:10
• Oli Bott: Inge's Lied
• 13 Bott: Inge's Lied 03:51
• Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897), Oli Bott: Wiegenlied:
• 14 Brahms, Bott: Wiegenlied 03:08
• Total Runtime 52:34

Info for Chronicles of Jazz

Chronicles of Jazz are fantasy stories in which compositional giants from classical music, jazz and more come together in a jazz session.

The trio of vibraphonist Oli Bott with bassist Arnulf Ballhorn and drummer Kay Lübke transcends the boundaries of different genres by mixing Maurice Ravel's Boléro with Duke Ellington's Caravan, Johann Sebastian Bach's Allemande from the Violin Sonata in D minor with Metallica's Nothing Else Matters or Erik Satie's Première Gnossienne with Milt Jackson's Bags' Groove. The compositions merge into one another and are each combined into a single piece by the musicians in a jazz jam with a great deal of spontaneous joy in playing.

Oli Bott and his trio tell stories that also contain autobiographical elements. He grew up with classical music, learnt percussion as a teenager, listened to rock music and later began training in jazz. At Berklee College of Music, he studied with Gary Burton, the great lyricist among jazz vibraphonists. However, Oli Bott has not become a conventional jazz musician. He consistently plays his own music, which feels its way into completely different musical languages, epochs and cultures, while he carves out impressive moods on the metal plates like a sculptor.

Oli Bott, vibraphone
Arnulf Ballhorn, bass
Kay Lübke, drums

Oli Bott
tudied vibraphone and composition at the Berklee College of Music in Boston with teachers such as Gary Burton and Bob Brookmeyer, graduating 'summa cum laude'. After completing his studies, he moved to Berlin where he now works as a freelance vibraphonist and composer. The Arts Council of Berlin has been a regular supporter, awarding him both scholarships as a vibraphonist and commissions as a composer for his own jazz orchestra, which he also conducts. Oli Bott has been awarded many prizes, including the 'NDR-Musikpreis' for bigband conductors, 1st prize at the Leipzig Improvisation Competition and the Wayne Shorter Award, USA. His concerts throughout Europe have been broadcast on TV and the radio.

Oli loves to interpret good music of all styles and feels comfortable improvising his own stories on works of classical, jazz, rock and world music. His portfolio thus ranges from the Romanian rock band ZMEI3 to the collaboration with cellist Anna Carewe and the Sheridan Ensemble (cross-genre ensemble from baroque and classical to jazz, rock and improvisation) to his jazz trio with the fantasy stories CHRONICLES OF JAZZ, in which compositional giants from classical music, jazz and more come together, and his jazz quartet with his miniatures CONTENT, from which narratives are knitted in large improvisations. He played at festivals like WOMAD Festival, Electric Castle Festival, Schwetzinger SWR Festspiele, Schleswig Holstein Musik Festival, Niedersächsische Musiktage, Beethovenfest Bonn, WDR Jazz Festival Köln, Händel Festspiele Halle, Musikfest Stuttgart und Kurt Weill Fest Dessau.

Since 2001 Oli has been teaching improvisation to classically trained musicians in Berlin and gives workshops for the education programme of the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Berlin University of Popular Arts, the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus and the Landesmusikakademie Berlin.

In 2022, he was commissioned by the German Bundestag to compose a 60-minute homage to Haydn's work to mark the 100th anniversary of Germany's national anthem, which he produced with Anna Carewe, Markus Stockhausen, Oliver Potratz and Eric Schaefer and which is published on dasdeutschlandlied.de.

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