Dieter Josef Ilg (born September 30, 1961 in Offenburg) is a German jazz double-bassist.

Dieter Ilg and Charlie Mariano, 2005

He worked early in his career with Joe Viera in the early 1980s, then with Randy Brecker, the WDR Big Band, Bennie Wallace, Albert Mangelsdorff, Wolfgang Dauner, Charlie Mariano, Marc Copland, Jeff Hirshfield, Wolfgang Muthspiel and others. He has taught at Rockschool Freiburg and the Freiburg Conservatory.[1]

Discography edit

As leader edit

  • Ilg/Schroder/Haffner (Mood, 1989)
  • Summerhill (Lipstick, 1991)
  • Fieldwork (Jazzline, 1998)
  • Live (Fullfat, 2001)
  • Bass (Fullfat, 2008)
  • Otello (Fullfat, 2010)
  • Otello Live at Schloss Elmau (ACT, 2011)
  • Parsifal (ACT, 2013)
  • Mein Beethoven (ACT, 2015)
  • B-A-C-H (ACT, 2017)
  • Nightfall with Till Bronner (Masterworks, 2018)

With Marc Copland

  • Tracks (Bellaphon, 1992)
  • Two Way Street (Jazzline, 1993)
  • What's Goin' On (Jazzline, 1994)

With Charlie Mariano

  • A La Carte (Fullfat, 2009)
  • Due (Fullfat, 2009)
  • Goodbye Pork Pie Hat (Sommelier Du Son, 2009)

References edit

  1. ^ Mark Gilbert, "Dieter Ilg". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld.