Rainer Brüninghaus

Biography

German jazz pianist and composer, born November 21, 1949 in Bad Pyrmont. Brüninghaus founded the jazz-rock band *Eiliff* in 1970, played in *Eberhard Weber*'s Colours from 1975, and led his own trio alongside work with *Manfred Schoof*. His leader album 'Freigeweht' appeared on #ECM# in 1981, and from 1988 he became the long-standing pianist in the *Jan Garbarek* Group, the association that best supports his Influential Sideman filing.