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Rüdiger Carl was born on April 26, 1944 in Goldap, Poland ( formerly East Prussia) and has been involved in improvised music since 1968. He recorded his first record in 1972 and then began playing with a wide range of musicians including Arjen Gorter, Makaya Ntshoko, Louis Moholo, Maarten van Regteren Altena, Tristan Honsinger, Johnny Dyani and Han Bennink.

He maintains a long-standing partnership with Irene Schweizer that began in 1973 and continues to the present day. For a three year period, from 1973 to 1976 Carl was a member of Globe Unity Orchestra. He started giving solo performances in 1977 and the following year started two other long-term professional partnerships, with Sven-Åke Johansson and Hans Reichel.

Rüdiger’s most striking change in improvised music came when he gave up the saxophone and began performing with the accordion in duets with Hans Reichel. Though he continued to play the two instruments virtually side-by-side, adding clarinet to his arsenal, recorded Vorn which featured a version of the McCartney tune Those Were The Days. The COWWS Quintet was formed, continuing his musical relationship with Schweizer along with Philipp Wachsmann, Jay Oliver and Stephen Wittwer.

In addition to the COWWS, he performs with the Canvas Trio, in duos with Mayo Thompson of the Red Crayolas and Joëlle Léandre. During the Eighties he organized concerts of Musik im Portikus and beginning in 1994 has led the F.I.M. Orchester in Frankfurt/M.

Accordionist Rüdiger Carl is also an arranger and composer and continues to record and perform.

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