Bio – Marc Muellbauer 2017

London born, Berlin based Marc Muellbauer works both as a bass player and composer/band leader. To date, he has recorded eight albums for ECM as a member of the Julia Hülsmann Trio the latest being „Sooner and Later“. Apart from writing for and playing with the trio, he composes and arranges for the Wood and Steel Trio, his nine-piece band Marc Muellbauer’s Kaleidoscope and the electric guitar trio Polychrome. He is also a versatile sideman, working in settings ranging from jazz bands like Lisbeth Quartett and Eva Klesse Quartett, electronic music with Moritz v. Oswald to studio and live work with songwriter Klaus Hoffmann.   

While Muellbauer’s background is in jazz and rock, he both studied classical double bass with Prof. Michael Wolf at Hochschule der Künste Berlin, and has postgrad degree in jazz from the same school (by then re-named University of the Arts Berlin). Muellbauer also worked for several years in the field of contemporary composed music with ensemble united berlin. 

Marc Muellbauer has been teaching bass and improvisation since 1998 at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler  and at the Jazz Institute Berlin since its inception in 2005 until 2020.

Discography (excerpt):

Jazz:

ECM:

Julia Hülsmann Trio:

End of a Summer

Imprint

Sooner and Later

Julia Hülsmann Quartet (with Uli Kempendorff):

Not Far From Here (the album was awarded the Deutscher Jazzpreis 2020 as “best album instrumental national”)

The Next Door (release September 2022)

Marc Sinan/Julia Hülsmann:

Fasil

Julia Hülsmann Quartet (with Tom Arthurs):

In Full View

Julia Hülsmann Quintet with Theo Bleckmann:

A Clear Midnight

ACT:

Julia Hülsmann Trio:

Scattering Poems (w. Rebecca Bakken)

Come Closer (w. Anna Lauvergnac)

Good Morning Midnight (w. Roger Cicero)

Verve:

Céline Rudolph: Salvador

Independent Labels:

Hülsmann/Muellbauer/Winch: 

TRIO (BIT)

Marc Muellbauer’s Kaleidoscope:

Quiet (schoener hoeren)

Journeyman (JazzHausMusik)

Wood and Steel Trio:

Secret Ingredient (unit records)

Wood and Steel Trio with Michael Schiefel:

Hollywood Songbook (Traumton)

Lisbeth Quartett:

Release (Intakt)

There Is Only Make (Traumton)

Lisbeth Live (Traumton – recorded and mixed by

Marc Muellbauer)

Constant Travellers (Traumton)

Framed Frequencies (Traumton)

Grow (Double Moon)

Uli Kempendorff Quartet:

Out with it, Louise

Finn Wiesner Trio:

Oddball, City Shadows

Esther Kaiser Quartett:

The Moment We Met, Cozy in Bed, Songs of Courage, Water

Kaiser/Bandorff: Sternklar

Klaus Spencker Trio: December

Lucia Martinez Azulcielo: Azulcielo

Dirk Homuth Quintett: Der Reiz des Unbekannten

Formaçion Alcantara: Solamente Nosotros

Nico Lohmann Quintett:

Miraculum, Merging Circles (unit records)

Electronica/Techno:

Deutsche Grammophon:

Moritz v.Oswald/Carl Craig: ReComposed

Honest Jons Records:

Moritz v.Oswald Trio:

Horizontal Structures (Honest Jons records)

Fetch (Honest Jons records)

Ensemble DuVerre:

The Contemporary Cowboy

Songwriter:

Klaus Hoffmann: Hoffmann singt Brel, Brel die letzte Vorstellung, Hoffmann Berlin (Indigo)

Tim Fischer: Walzerdelirium

Contemporary composed music:

Ensemble United Berlin: New Saxophone Chamber Music

Als Produzent:

Holon Trio: Holon (Mons Records)

Marc Doffey Quintet: Taking Direction (Mons Records)