Results for "Basel"

Stephan Sieber

Born: March 2, 1962

After studies at the Swiss Jazz School in Berne and the Berklee College of Music in Boston he started his career as a drummer both in Europe and in the U.S. Also a studied composer and arranger his credits include film- scoring, chamber music and orchestral works. He received several awards among others from the Swiss Composer’s Guild, from the European Forum for Culture and from the Clavel Foundation. Beside many other musical activities he is leading his own bands "The Jazzlounge" - a hip, jazzy lounge- band and "SIGNS" his concert band.

Dominik Schürmann

Born: March 15, 1971

Projects, tours and concerts with well-known musicians such as Hendrik Meurkens, Max Ionata, Frits Landesbergen, Martin Sasse, Luis Diego Bonilla, Jorge Rossy, Karl Ratzer, George Gruntz, Isla Eckinger, Oscar Klein, Vince Benedetti, Domenic Landolf, David Klein, Adrian Mears, Adam Taubitz, Titi Winterstein, Kurt Weil, Jim Galloway, John Serry, Bonnie Jeanne Taylor, Miguel de la Cerna, Othella Dallas, Andreas Herrmann, Markus Hauser, Mario Schneeberger, Sam Burckhardt and many more. He has performed in numerous jazz clubs and at jazz festivals in Switzerland and abroad.

He has been a member of Thomas Moeckel's "Centrio" since 1998. He has a long musical friendship with the well-known Swiss all-round musician Thomas Moeckel, during which countless joint projects have been created. Several of his own CD productions followed, such as the recordings "Dahaana", "Nothing Is As It Seems" (both with the hardbop formation Compulsion) and "Sambâle" with the trio formation Gutfleisch-Schürmann-Frey, founded in 2017 and co-produced by Swiss Radio SRF 2. His 2016 album "Upswing" was one of the most successful Swiss CD productions on international download platforms. In 2023 he founded the European Jazz Meeting with Max Ionata, Martin Sasse and Frits Landesbergen.

VEIN

There certainly is no special need any more to mention the fact that today most jazz piano trios are deeply attached to musical interplay (even though this fact is worth to never be taken for granted!). And yet, even with the most subtle, most distinguished form of interplay there is always one in the trio who plays the part of the primus inter pares – the pianist, of course (usually and by definition leader of the group). That's exactly where pianist Michael Arbenz, drummer Florian Arbenz and bassist Thomas Lähns come up with their own idea of musical interplay. In fact, what they aim to achieve with their music - their understanding of music - is nothing less than the greatest possible balance of their three voices - starting with the way they work out their own compositions and arrangements, and going right through to the soloistic parts, fully assigned to all three of them. The result is a stupendous musical togetherness, packed with surprising melodic, rhythmic and dynamic turns, played with highest precision even in the most complex, distorted and twisted passages of their compositions, arrangements and solos.

Vernau Mier

Born: June 8, 1994

Vernau was born in Girona in 1994 and is now based in Basel, Switzerland. He began to study classical guitar and violin, starting saxophone later at the age of 11. Three years later he became acquainted with Dani Alonso, with whom he discovered jazz and started the JBBG (Youth Big Band of Girona), which has since become a cornerstone of the Girona jazz scene. At the age of 18, he moves to Barcelona to pursue a degree in jazz performance at the ESMUC and starts his first project, the Vernau Mier Quintet. With this quintet, he records his debut album Nebuloses d'Azimut live at the Sunset Jazz Club, featuring original compositions

Outhere Music acquires HatHut Records

December 2, 2016

Outhere Music is proud to announce the acquisition of the catalogue of the legendary Swiss jazz and contemporary music label HatHut Records. HatHut Records boasts an impressive number of more than 500 CD’s and LP’s, produced by its visionary founder, Werner X. Uehlinger over 40 years. Major composers such as John Cage, Morton Feldman, Giacinto Scelsi, ...

Marco von Orelli 5: Alluring Prospect

by Alberto Bazzurro
March 24, 2016

Teniamo d'occhio da un po' di anni lo svizzero (di Basilea, per l'esattezza) Marco von Orelli, e dobbiamo dire che ogni volta che incrociamo qualche sua nuova incisione (di ascoltarlo dalle nostre parti, malgrado la sostanziale vicinanza, non se ne parla) la conferma del suo talento è pronta e convincente. Quest'ultimo lavoro in ...

MINUA: In Passing

by Mark Sullivan
August 11, 2015

There can't be many trios made up of bass clarinet and two guitars; in fact, I can't think of another one. MINUA, a German/Icelandic trio based in Basel, Switzerland, makes it sound like the most natural combination in the world. The trio members met during their studies at the Jazzschool in Basel. They quickly felt a ...

MONOGLOT: MONOGLOT

by Mark Sullivan
January 19, 2015

MONOGLOT comes by their band name honestly, a Swiss/German/Icelandic jazz/rock quintet based in Basel, Switzerland that speaks with one voice. Their music is all instrumental, and the improvisational elements clearly mark it as jazz, but the rock elements are strong as well. This is a contemporary group with one foot in the jazz tradition and another ...

Eric Zinman's Excellent European Adventures

by Chris Rich
September 11, 2014

Eric Zinman goes to Europe each year on his own dime for a varying array of shoe string gigs with people who mean a lot to him as colleagues. He usually works with Mario Rechtern and people from a community in jny: Vienna that includes expatriate, Linda Sharrock. His most recent trip was especially ...

Stephan Sieber & Signs Releases "Her Song"

August 11, 2014

Swiss Musician/Composer Stephan Sieber has released his new album that features some unique musicians in a wonderful sonic setting. Signs was founded by Swiss drummer/composer Stephan Sieber in 1986. His intention was to create a laboratory where he could develop his musical language. The original cast were the American tenor- saxophonist Dave Peterson, German pianist Frieder ...