Nils Wulker - Just Here, Just Now

Wülker received from the age of seven piano lessons from the age of ten trumpet lessons with classical orientation. 1994 visited Wülker for one year as ASSIST -Stipendiat a private school in the US. There he discovered jazz and has been prepared by acid jazz and Miles Davis marked. Back in Germany played Wülker soon the Youth Jazz Orchestra NRW, with which he participated in 1996 and 1998 on two tours to China. In 1998 he studied after high school at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler", which he successfully completed of 2002. In 2005, Wülker his own record label (Ear Treat Music), before joining Warner 2015th .

During his studies he played in the National Youth Jazz Orchestra, representation, in the RIAS Big Band, from 2001 in the ensemble of its university lecturers Nicolai Thärichen ("Thärichens Tentett"), but also in the Judy Niemack Group and the Berlin Jazz Orchestra of Jiggs Whigham. Already before the end of his studies, he went with his own group into the studio to produce shots. The resulting CD "High Spirits" went as the first publication of a German jazz musician with Sony Music in company history; as the second album was released as Space Night Vol. 10 at Sony. Wülker took the publication of further plates before his band on his own label. In his Quintet he plays with Jan von Klewitz on saxophone, Lars Duppler on piano, Dietmar Fuhr on bass and Jens Dohle on drums. 2010, the band around guitarist was Arne Jansen and Edward Maclean expanded on bass, Benny Greb took over in 2012 the position of drummer.

He attracted attention by his published compositions on CD for the night program Spacenight des Bayerischen Rundfunks. In his compositions he combines the rhythmic and harmonic finesse of jazz with melodic and groovebetontem game of funk, rock and pop. Besides working with his own band, he played with Lee Ritenour, Dave Grusin, Don Grusin, Wolfgang Schmid and William Kennedy as "Hang All Stars" with Omara Portuondo, Dominic Miller, Joe Locke, Silje Nergaard, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Ute Lemper and Samy Deluxe, for his album Dis where I he Herkomm 2009, the track talk like I produced speech. 2013 Wülker received the ECHO Jazz in the category "Instrumentalist / in the year National Brass / Brass". 2014 he received the German Jazz Award in Gold for his album "Safely Falling", 2015, the German Jazz Award in Gold for his album "UP".