Rudi Mahall - Sunday Interview

 

Photo by Cristina Marx/Photomusix

1. What is your greatest joy in improvised music?
   
   To play the clarinet
   
   
2. What quality do you most admire in the musicians you perform with?
   
   Swing.
   
   
3. Which historical musician/composer do you admire the most?
   
   Charlie Parker.
   
   
4. If you could resurrect a musician to perform with, who would it be?
   
   Eric Dolphy.
   
   
5. What would you still like to achieve musically in your life?
   
   To play like Benny Goodman.
   
   
6. Are you interested in popular music and - if yes - what music/artist do you particularly like?
   
   I don't like pop-music at all.
   
   
7. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
   
   Nothing.
   
   
8. Which of your albums are you most proud of?
   
   All the "Die Enttäuschung" albums.
   
   
9. Once an album of yours is released, do you still listen to it? And how often?
   
   I don't listen to them.
   
   
10. Which album (from any musician) have you listened to the most in your life?
    
    n/a
    
    
11. What are you listening to at the moment?
    
    Benny Goodman.
    
    
12. What artist outside music inspires you?
    
    None.

Reviews on the Free Jazz Blog with Rudi Mahall:

Jazzwerkstatt Peitz 50th Anniversary (April 27th - 30th, 2023)

FUSK - Absurd Enthusiasm (Why Play Jazz, 2022)

Rudi Mahall / Jan Roder / Olaf Rupp - Skyhook (Audiosemantics, 2022)

Out on Intakt (Day 1 of 2)

Paul Lovens/Florian Stoffner - Tetratne (ezz-thetics, 2020) ****½

Aki Takase - Aki Takase Plays Fats Waller at Babylon Berlin 2009 (Jazzwerkstatt, 2020) ***(*)

Aki Takase and Rudi Mahall – Fifty Fifty (Trouble in the East, 2019) ***½

Rudi Mahall Olaf Rupp Kasper Tom - s/t (Barefoot Records, 2019) ****

Ivo Perelman and Rudi Mahall - Kindred Spirits (Leo, 2018) *****

Alexander von Schlippenbach and Rudi Mahall - So Far (Relative Pitch, 2018) ****

Flo Stoffner/Paul Lovens/Rudi Mahall - Mein Freund der Baum (Wide Ear Records, 2017) ****

Uwe Oberg, Rudi Mahall and Michael Griener – Lacy Pool 2 (Leo, 2017) ****

Meet The Danes #4 (part 1 of 2)

JR3 - Happy Jazz (Relative Pitch, 2017) ****

Meet the Danes #3

Rotozaza - Zero (Leo Records, 2016) ****

Berlin ... and Beyond

Meet The Danes

The Deciders - We Travel The Airwaves (Jazzland, 2013) ****

Die Enttäuschung - Vier Halbe (Intakt, 2012) ****

Die Enttäuschung - 5 (Intakt, 2009) ****

Die Enttäuschung (Intakt, 2007) ****