Ralf Hübner

Ralf Hübner (born May 3, 1939, Berlin) is a German jazz percussionist. Hübner attended the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin (1958-1962), studying both double bass and drums there and playing with Benny Bailey and Nathan Davis. Upon graduating he joined the Jazzensemble des Hessischen Rundfunks, an ensemble he would work with into the 1990s. He also began a decade-long association with Albert Mangelsdorff. In the 1970s he worked with musicians and ensembles such as the Frankfurt Jazz Ensemble, Joki Freund, Volker Krieger, Itaru Oki, Michel Pilz, Manfred Schoof, and Eberhard Weber. In the 1980s and 1990s he worked with Christof Lauer among others.