Interview with John Wolf Brennan

John Wolf Brennan was born in Dublin in 1954 to a Swiss father and an Irish mother and moved with them at the age of seven to Central Switzerland. He studied music and musicology in Lucerne, Fribourg, Bern and Dublin and has been active as a composer and performer across the boundaries of classical, jazz, rock and other music for many decades. Christian Steulet interviewed him in 2019 about the impact on his life and career of hearing Chris McGregor and his band Brotherhood of Breath in 1973. After Christian’s death in May 2020, Steff Rohrbach edited this interview and prepared it for publication in collaboration with Wolf Brennan. It was initially published in German in the magazine JAZZ’N’MORE.