„Live like God in France!“ Champagne tasting in Champagne, France with my very old buddy Olli Schmidt and his famous band! I’m telling you: it’s hard work!

Back in Germany, Hamburg with my first concerts! With Jan-Hendrik Ehlers, piano.

We are pleased to announce that we have completed 2 CDs in a long recording session.

More Jazz in San Francisco! Playing with several groups and jazz musicians in SF. What a fun!

Pics:
1 Jamming with the „Twelve String Roulette“ at the Rite Spot Cafe in San Francisco. What an amazing evening!
2 Fun modern jazz session in Precita Park, San Francisco. Great musicians! Great weather! There’s jazz in the air.
3 Great playing with Mikiya Matsuda on the bass and Vic Wong on the guitar at the The Liberties Public House, SF! People were having fun and dancing!
4 Turk Murphey with Leon Oakley was one of my first records! Now I have met Leon in real life in San Francisco! Amazing! He played with his band & Mike Lipskin for the South Bay Trad Jazz. Afterwards there was a relaxed session with local musicians, hosted by Ryan Calloway.

I love San Francisco: A lot of Jazz here!

pics:
1 Jam Session with local Musicians
2 Playing with the Gunhild Carling Band at the Dawn Club
3 My first concert in SF as a sub with the South Bay Jazzband
4 Playing with the famous Mike Lipskin in the famous Bix
http://www.a-great-day-in-harlem.com/

„Mike Lipskin
also shot some of the memorable still photographs shown in A Great Day In Harlem. He was there the day of the Esquire photo shoot not as a photographer but as a protégé of Willie “The Lion” Smith. Lipskin went on to become an accomplished jazz pianist in the Harlem Stride style. He remains one of the very few contemporary stride pianists as well as one of the few people writing new stride piano music. Lipskin has performed at Carnegie Hall, Davies Symphony Hall, and the Newport Jazz Festival, among other venues. His music can be heard on recordings for Buskirk Productions and Downtown Records. Lipskin, who previously worked as a record producer at RCA for 13 years, now practices trademark, entertainment, and real estate law in San Francisco.„

We love the town! First session with local musicians.

My last concert was on Saturday, June 1 at Alfio´s, „Ralf Böcker & Friends“:

https://alfios.com/specialEvents.html with these really famous guys:

Alan Dale, drums, played with Buddy Rich, Louie Bellson and many more, Eric Glaser, bass, (Eric spent 23 years in New Orleans where, as a jazz bassist, he was a regular member of the Dukes of Dixieland and Pete Fountain bands. He also performed with Al Hirt. He was named New Orleans Magazine traditional jazz bassist of the year in 1997.)

Bob Boguslaw on piano, played in the White House, with Wynton Marsalis, with Henning Hoene, Louis Bellson and many more.

https://www.bobboguslaw.com/

Dave Ericson, trumpet. He has played in the HOTS Jazz Orchestra, Doc Scantlin and his Imperial Palms Orchestra, Swing Shift, Laissez Foure (trad jazz), Blue Crescent Syncopators, the New Columbia Swing Orchestra, and Dave Robinson’s Conservatory Classic Jazz Band, and led a group called D.C. Dixie.

Looking forward to playing with these great musicians!

My saxophone composition has just been published by my publishing house! Thanks to the publishers Bastian and Christine Fiebig, Chili Notes.

https://www.chilinotes.com

The book is currently being presented at the trade fair Akustika in Nürnberg, Germany.

https://www.akustika-nuernberg.de/en

The suite is a large work for 6 saxophones from half an hour.

It´s about this wonderful german town Frankfurt/ Main.

Heute Samstag Abend, 24.Febr. 2024 große Swing-Party mit meiner neuen Band in den USA, Washington D.C.!
This Saturday evening, Feb. 24, 2024 big swing party with my new band!

Swing Dance with RALF BÖCKER & FRIENDS in the Spanish Ballroom

Hier die neuesten Klarinettenwerke zum Anschauen als PDF oder Link.

Der Musiker und Komponist Ralf Böcker, alias Damian Maria Rabe, hat sich in den letzten Jahren in seinen Kompositionen stark mit der Klarinette beschäftigt. Daraus sind einige Werke hervorgegangen, ob Duos oder Trios, ob im Ensemble oder sogar im Orchester. Einen Überblick gibt dieser Link.
Eine Übersicht über alle verlagsfreien Werke finden Sie hier.