Günter "Baby" Sommer

Günter “Baby” Sommer is a German jazz drummer and percussionist born in Dresden in 1943. One of the important figures in the development of free jazz and improvisation in East Germany, he worked with groups including Synopsis and developed an individual language of percussion, gesture and acoustic colour.

His solo Hörmusik performances and collaborations with musicians such as Ulrich Gumpert, Peter Kowald and Wadada Leo Smith show an interest in sound beyond conventional timekeeping. On Creative Sources he appears with Gonçalo Mortágua, Ernesto Rodrigues and Guilherme Rodrigues on Not Bad (CS761), recorded in Berlin in June 2022.