Christof May

Christof May
Born	April 6, 1970, Radolfzell, Germany
Genres	Jazz
Occupations	Musician Composer
Instruments	Clarinet, Saxophone, Flute
Years active	1992 - present
Labels	ECM, Favored Nations, Romeo Records
Website	Christof May.com

Christof May (born 6 April 1970 in Radolfzell, Baden-Württemberg) is a German jazz musician who performs on the clarinet and saxophone.

May studied jazz saxophone with John Ruocco at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague from 1992–1998 and from 1998 - 2002 classical clarinet with Ab Vos. He earned a Master's Degree in music there.

From 1995 on, he worked as a sideman with Susanne Abbuehl, Michel Portal, David Liebman, Claudio Puntin, Samuel Rohrer, Florian Zenker, Amina Figarova, Erik Ineke and Trygve Seim.

With Abbuehl, May can be heard on the ECM productions April and Compass. He toured through Europe, Africa und North America, playing a.o. in Cape Town, Maputo, Montreal, Portland, Oregon, Oslo, Paris, Rome and other European cities. With the Dutch radio orchestra "Metropole Orkest", he worked a.o. with Kenny Werner and Bob Malach and recorded CDs with drummer Terry Bozzio. In the classical field, he worked with the symphony orchestras of Krefeld-Mönchengladbach, Aachen and Duisburg in Germany.

His own project, Maygus is inspired by the music of Miles Davis from the seventies. The name of the project refers to the 1974 released record Dark Magus.^[1] The band's first CD was released in November, 2007 as Vol. 20 of the series "Jazzthing Next Generation", in a cooperation of German magazine Jazzthing and the jazz label, Double Moon.

Selected discography

• Ugly Beauty, 1994, The Jazzmeteors
• I Am Rose, 1997, Susanne Abbuehl
• April, 2000, with Susanne Abbuehl, Wolfert Brederode and Samuel Rohrer
• Far Enough, 2000, Nimbus, with Wolfert Brederode
• Festina Lente, 2003, Nimbus, with Wolfert Brederode, featuring David Liebman
• chamber works, 2005, Terry Bozzio & Metropole Orchestra
• Compass, 2006, with Susanne Abbuehl, Wolfert Brederode and Lucas Niggli
• Maygus, 2007, Jazzthing Next Generation Vol. 20

References

1. ^ May, Christof (March 27, 2007). "Christof May". Official Website. http://www.christofmay.com/texts/bio.html. Retrieved 2009-05-30. 

External links

• Christof May's Homepage
• MAYGUS
• review on All About Jazz

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Name	May, Christof
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Date of birth	April 6, 1970
Place of birth	Radolfzell
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