Wolfgang Puschnig

Wolfgang Puschnig (born 21 May 1956 in Klagenfurt, Austria) is an Austrian jazz musician (saxophone, flute, bass clarinet) and composer.

Biography After his studies of saxophone and flute at the Vienna Conservatory Puschnig was the founding member of the Vienna Art Orchestra together with Mathias Rüegg in the mid-1970s. Here he was active until 1989. He was also involved in projects with Ernst Jandl involving Lauren Newton. He also played with Hans Koller in the early 1980s, with the quartet 'Air Mail' and 'Saxofour'. Carla Bley brought him into her groups in the mid 1980s. He worked with Wolfgang Mitterer, Uli Scherer, and his longtime partner Linda Sharrock and Jamaaladeen Tacuma in different groups, and also has cooperated with Reinhard Flatischler, Herbert Joos, Christof Lauer, and Michel Godard. In the project "Alpine Aspects" he started in 1991 with jazz musicians and the Amstetten musicians together (most recently at the JazzFest Berlin 2006 and at Musikfest Waidhofen / Thaya 2007). In addition, he has repeatedly performed with the Korean percussion ensemble SamulNori. 2022: Cultural Prize of Carinthia (Kulturpreis des Landes Kärnten)

Discography

Solo albums 1988: Pieces Of The Dream (Amadeo) 1991: Alpine Aspects (Amadeo) 1995: Mixed Metaphors (Amadeo) 1997: Dream Weavers (Label Hopi) 1998: Roots & Fruits (EmArcy) 1999: Aspects (Pao Records) 2001: Chants (Quinton Records) 2006: Things Change: The 50th Anniversary Box (EmArcy), 3xCD

Collaborations With Ernst Jandl 1984: Bist Eulen? (Extraplatte) 1988: Vom Vom Zum Zum (Extraplatte)

With 'Air Mail' (Harry Pepl, Mike Richmond, Wolfgang Puschnig, Wolfgang Reisinger) 1985: Prayer For Peace (Moers Music) 1988: Light Blues (Amadeo, LP) 2001: Light Blues (EmArcy, CD)

With 'AM 4' (Wolfgang Puschnig / Linda Sharrock / Uli Scherer) 1989: ... And She Answered: (ECM Records)

With Red Sun Samulnori (Choi Jong Sil, Kang Min Seok, Kim Duk-Soo, Lee Kwang Soo) 1989: Red Sun Samulnori (Amadeo) 1994: Then Comes The White Tiger (ECM Records) 1995: Nanjang - A new Horizon (Amadeo, Antilles)

With Carla Bley 1991: The Very Big Carla Bley Band (WATT Works) 1996: The Carla Bley Big Band Goes to Church (WATT Works) 2000: 4x4 (WATT Works) 2003: Looking for America (WATT Works) 2008: Appearing Nightly (WATT Works)

With Paul Urbanek and Hans Koller 2000: The Hans Koller Concept (Extraplatte) 2002: The Hans Koller Concept 2 (Extraplatte) With the Vienna Art Orchestra Tango from Obango (Art, 1980) Concerto Piccolo (Hat ART, 1981) Suite for the Green Eighties (Hat ART, 1982) From No Time to Rag Time (Hat ART, 1983) The Minimalism of Erik Satie (Hat ART, 1984) A Notion in Perpetual Motion (Hat ART, 1985) With other projects 1986: Obsoderso (Moers Music), as Wolfgang Puschnig / Wolfgang Mitterer 1986: Pat Brothers No. 1. (Moers Music), with The Pat Brothers (Wolfgang Mitterer, Wolfgang Puschnig) 1988: Two Songs For Another Lovely War (Ex Zed Records), as Wolfgang Puschnig / Christian Radovan / Wolfgang Reisinger / Uli Scherer / Heiri Kaenzig / Harry Sokal / Mathias Rüegg 1998: Holy Aureols Esoteric (Esovision), as Wolfgang Puschnig and Stefan Benkö 1998: Spaces (EmArcy), as Wolfgang Puschnig • Mark Feldman 1998: hot ROOM (Extraplatte), as Lechner / Puschnig / Tang / Youssef 2000: Almost Blue (EmArcy), with Willi Resetarits 2002: Grey (Quinton Records), as Wolfgang Puschnig | Steve Swallow | Don Alias | Victor Lewis 2002: Red - White - Red & Spangled (Universal Music Austria), with Harry Sokal 2005: Odem (EmArcy), as Wolfgang Puschnig, Jatinder Thakur, Dhafer Youssef 2005: Color Fields (Unit Records), as Newton - Huber - Puschnig 2005: Voices Of Time (Universal Music Austria), with Harry Sokal 2007: Late Night Show Part II (Quinton Records), as Puschnig / Sharrock 2008: Gemini Gemini (ITM ARCHIVES, 2xCD), with Jamaaladeen Tacuma 2008: Alpine Aspects - Homage To O.C. (EmArcy), as Wolfgang Puschnig | Robert Pussecker 2010: Terra (Leo Records), with Sainkho Namtchylak 2010: For the Love of Ornette (Jam-All), with Jamaaladeen Tacuma 2011: Berühren (PAN TAU-X Records), with Triomobile (Ponger, Roder, Soyka, Puschnig) 2014: The Jazz Composer's Orchestra Update (ECM Records), with Michael Mantler