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lecture at georgia augusta university in göttingen jan 13-16th: lecture 13th, 18 h -workshops 14th+15 th +concert of the gunter hampel music+dance improvisation company with danilo cardoso-bernd oezsevim-cavana lee hampel

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this is our latest/newest masterpiece—-birth DVD 15o831 ALIVE-THE GUNTER HAMPEL MUSIC+DANCE IMPROVISATION COMPANY live at the BALLHOUSE BERLIN GERMANY

invocation: jazz at the ballhouse in berlin germany gunter hampel’s birthdayconcert (78) -: Even though this event was already a few weeks back i cannot stop to write and talk about IT : too impressing ,the audience was carried away with enthusiasm too exciting the rousing music-I am continuing in  having a still lasting effect on myself, i cannot be silent about it. I am talking about JAZZ I am talking about ART and above all about gunter hampel s music somewhere between SUN RA,CHARLES MINGUS and THELONIOUS MONK, I am talking about HAMPEL’s COMPOSITIONS, the EXCHANGE AND THE TOGETHER PERFORMING with the OMNIVERSAL EARKESTRA;HAMPEL CONDUCTED WITH HIS COMPOSITIONS waiting and waltz for universes in a corridor and the 3 dancers,which surfed on their music ,sounds, counterparting the music,completing the music and illustrating the music,transforming the rhythms into their body-parts adding a further dimension ,being the rocking and rolling superstrings of evolving music tones and layers of the incredible music-band!   I am talking of movements,integrating expressive forms from Capoeira up to the classical ballet BECAUSE GUNTER HAMPELs M U S I C is a LANGUAGE !!!!! COMMUNICATING ON A L L LEVELS ,with itself,with each other and getting in a muddle resulting into an ecstasy which resolves in frenetic applause by the audience !!!!!!!!!!!!

from “mindblowing jazz-invocation -ballhaus berlin :the gunter hampel music+dance jazz-improvisation company with gunter hampel-danilo cardoso-magdalena dzeco-ruomi lee-hampel-johannes schleiermacher-bernd oezsevim    http://krautart.de/kunstblog/music/

Imvocation; jazz im Ballhaus/ Gunter Hampel’s Geburtstagskonzert/ “Auch wenn dieses Ereignis bereits ein paar wochen zurück liegt,kann ich es nicht lassen,davon zu berichten: zu beeindruckend,zu mitreißend,zu nachwirkend um davonn zu schweigen.      Ich spreche von JAZZ und von KUNST und vor allem von Musik zwischen SUN RA,CHARLES MINGUS und THELONIOUS MONK von HAMPEL’s KOMPOSITIONEN,dem Austausch und Zusammenspiel mit dem Omniversal Earkestra und von den 3 TänzerInnen,die auf den Klängen surften,ihnen widersprachen,sie ergänzten und illustrierten, die den Rhythmus in ihre Glieder verwandelten und den sich Superstrings gleich aufrollenden Tönen mindestens eine weitere Dimension hinzufügten.  Ich spreche von Bewegungen,die Ausdrucksformen von Apoeira bis zum klassischen Ballet integrieren,WEIL MUSIK EINE SPRACHE IST. Se kommuniziert auf allen Ebenen-mit sich selbst, mit einander und durcheinander bis zur Ekstase, die sich in frenetischen Applausen des Publikums Luft macht.

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to the most amazing and most wonderfull artists you will find in my bands with which i am now gracing this planet since almost 6o years ! and which are represented on this site in forms of timeless music, dance ,poetry ,singing in pictures, on CDs- LPs and DVDs and words and sounds.for your enlightment, pleasure, and enjoyment. to dig the quality of this listen to my historic music of the 5o s and 6o s and listen to the newest music from today, from the NOW as the TIME embodies in our newest recordings and live concerts ,and find yourself being enhanced by their magic and beauty, because they sound as fresh, as if they were just now been recorded. the level of this artistic output is the highest because i make us perform as equal partners in a team with all of its responsibility and care and the goal: one for all, and all for one. we have developed very unique concepts which i call instant composing, instant conducting and naturally with the help of my unique and personal compositions and arranging which gives everyone involved enough ground to start developing to bring in their best and creativity, as we all know, has no limits, but the time in which it is created. our conscious and music is engaged into the NOW, when we play or record. i am graced , pleased and thankfull to have the honor and pleasure to present to you the best people i could find and pay in my life, and i am proud that in europe and the usa i have found such highly gifted people who all were willing to involve their body and soul to make this incredible catalog of original music and dance possible in being part of the gunter hampel family . enjoy. it is all here for you.

I create new compositions, no one has played before us, so we are starting something new , we build up a new repertoire, a new spectrum, the gunter hampel music, for improving bands like ours, for NOW and the future,  that is what Louis Armstrong did, Count Basie, or Charly Parker, or John Coltrane,  we play my new  compositions, experience them  and we improvise fresh within the moment we perform. you think this is not possible? watch us and listen and be part of the dance. participate.  this is, what this whole website is for: to introduce you to new material, my compositions and the phantastic results my bands can achieve when playing this new, fresh stuff of being in the NOW ! my compositions are just starting positions for each performer. our task is, everytime we play, to get together like the great TEAMWORK of german soccer TEAM Borussia Dortmund, they are the perfect incarnation of a real jazzband -one for all and all for one- we can kick in our own creations, improvisations,ideas, from listening to each other and then move to our collective playing.we are NOT interpretating any broadyway tunes, we all are throwing everything from what we got, body and soul ,personality in our cutting edge creations every time we perform.and let me remind you , our creations are timeless. listen to my stuff from years ago , sounds, like it just got recorded.

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THE GERMAN COMPOSER-BANDLEADER- VIBRAPHONIST-BASSCLARINETIST-FLUTIST-SAXOPHONIST NOT ONLY HAS WRITTEN WORLDWIDE JAZZ-HISTORY IN INTRODUCING THE GUNTER HAMPEL MUSIC TO THE JAZZ-EVOLUTION BUT ALSO THE WAY HOW TO PLAY THE VIBRAFON-BASSCLARINET-FLUTE-SAXOPHONE +A WHOLE NEW CONCEPT HOW MUSIC CAN BE PLAYED FROM SOLO TO COLLECTIVE ENSEMBLES:”HIS MUSIC IS A UNIQUE PHENOMENON IN THE WORLD” ( Coda-jazzmagazin-USA)HIS EVOLUTIONARY BANDS FROM 1958 TILL 2o14 HAVE WRITTEN JAZZ-HISTORY AND STAND AS A MODEL FOR INSPIRATION FOR THOUSANDS OF MUSICIANS WORLDWIDE: