Carl Ludwig Hübsch

Carl Ludwig Hübsch (born 1966 in Freiburg im Breisgau) is a German jazz and improvisation musician who plays tuba. Life and career Hübsch initially learned clarinet, then switched to drums, and in 1983 changed from clarinet to tuba. He studied largely as an autodidact, but also studied percussion, voice, and electronic music as well as harmony and music theory at the Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg. He was later a guest student in the composition class of Johannes Fritsch at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. He has founded his own groups, including Primordial Soup with Frank Gratkowski, Michael Griener, and Axel Dörner. Together with Gratkowski, Matthias Schubert, and Norbert Stein, he was one of the four leaders and composers of the James Choice Orchestra. In 1994, he founded the group Post No Bills with Chris Weinheimer, Tom Lorenz, Robert Schleisiek, and Ole Schmidt, which focuses on improvised music and contemporary music, performing works such as John Cage’s “Variations” and “Number Pieces” and Christian Wolff’s “Exercises”. Since 1989, Hübsch has collaborated with musicians including Arthur Blythe, Lester Bowie, Jasper van ’t Hof, Paul Lytton, Hannes Zerbe, Willem Breu