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Günter Sommer

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Günter Sommer
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Günter "Baby" Sommer (born 25 August 1943) is a German jazz drummer.

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Günter Sommer in Aarhus, Denmark 2010
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Career

Sommer was born in Dresden on 25 August 1943.[1] His first instrument was the trumpet, which he studied at school.[1] He started playing the drums aged 15 or 16.[1] He studied music at Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden.[2] A solo percussion album, Hormusik, was released by FMP in 1979.[2] In the same year, FMP also released a trio album recorded with Peter Kowald and Wadada Leo Smith.[2] He has worked with Smith intermittently throughout his career.[2] During the 1980s he also worked with Peter Brötzmann, Irene Schweizer, Cecil Taylor, and with the writer Gunter Grass.[2] In the early 1990s he began leading a trio with Didier Levallet, then with Theo Jörgensmann, and joined in 1995 for 13 years as drums professor the faculty at Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber.[2] His usual nickname Baby is due to a comparison, homage to the multifaceted US drummer Baby Dodds.[3]

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