Lutz Buechner was born in 1968 in the city of Bremen, Germany. He took lessons with the famous alto saxophonist Herb Geller and started to study at the music-university in Hamburg.
He performed with trombone player Ed Kroeger from Bremen and was invited as a soloist to record with the Metropole Orchester in Hilversum „Netherlands” directed by Rob Pronk.
In 1994 he became a permanent member of the NDR Bigband.
Along with his bandmate, Swedish bass player Lucas Lindholm, drummer Heinz Lichius and Buggy Braune on piano he played weekly at a jazzclub (Dennis’) in Hamburg along with guests such as Wolfgand Schlueter (vib) or Gene Jackson (drms).
At the same club Lutz played with Joerg Achim Keller’s‚ Small Bigband’ once a week.
As a teacher Lutz worked for the Institute of Music at the University of Bremen and also for the musicschool of MIB
(Association of Musicians in Bremen)
In Hamburg he is a member of the „Nils Gessinger Band” and Juergen Attig’s „low X”.
There are several projects with Bassist Detlev Beier, Hans Dekker (drums) and Joe Dinkelbach (p), Paul Imm (b) and Ralph Reichert (ts), Marc Prietzel (drums), Jon Hammond (org) and ex Miles Davis guitarist Barry Finnerty (g), and NDR Bigband Bandmate Stefan Diez (g) .
Lutz also played with larger ensembles as „the Ed Partyka Jazzorchestra”, hr Radio Bigband in Frankfurt (at the Frankfurt Jazzfestival with Tim Hagans), Bremen Bigband and Henk Meutgeert’s Jazzorchestra of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
2000-2004 he played with Danish drummer Alex Riel.
The quartet with Alex, Lutz, Carsten Dahl on piano and Jesper Lundgaard on bass recorded a cd („ life at Jive”) that was released by „Stunt Records”. The band performed in Denmark, Norway, Vietnam and also at the
NDR-Jazzconcerts in Hamburg at Rolf-Liebermann-Studio.
Since 2001 Lutz has been playing with Joe Gallardo`s band. Joe’s CD is called
„A Latin Shade of Blue” and was released by the German record label „ENJA”. The band played at jazz festivals in Burghausen, Vienna and Jazz-Baltica in Salzau.
With the NDR Bigband he played concerts at jazz festivals in London, Paris, Chicago, New York and Bejing. For the „Goethe-Institute” the band toured in South-America, Spain, Portugal and South-Africa. Well-known musicians like Wayne Shorter, Benny Golson, Michael Gibbs, Dave Holland, Abdullah Ibrahim, Al Jarreau, Clark Terry, McCoy Tyner, Albert Mangelsdorf.... played with the NDR Bigband .
In 2004 Lutz arranged two of his compositions for the NDR Bigband.
The „Trio Connex” was founded in 2004 with Bjoern Luecker (drums) and Phillip Steen (bass). The three musicians have released their recording in January 2006 (Schoener Hören Music).
Lutz’ new CD „Ring” with
Sandra Hempel - git
Danny Gottlieb - drms
Vladyslav Sendecki - p
Paul Imm - bass
Jürgen Attig - frettless bass
is also available since January 2006. (Schoener Hören Music)
Seit Januar 2006 ist auch die neue CD „Ring” von
Lutz Büchner erhältlich mit:
Sandra Hempel - git,
Danny Gottlieb - drums
Vladyslav Sendecki - piano
Paul Imm - Bass
Jürgen Attig - Frettless Bass.
Sie ist ebenfalls bei „Schoener Hören Music” erschienen .
(NRW-Vertrieb)