- Peter Giger
Peter Giger (born
April 12 ,1939 inZurich , grown up in and near toBerne ) is aSwiss percussionist andbandleader .----
His musical CV
1958 professional
musician , tours inEurope with the Tremble Kids, Oskar Klein, Albert Nicholas, Bill Coleman, Joe Turner, Wild Bill Davison, Peanuts Holland1960 after short guest performance with Armand Gordons Ragtime Band, moves to
Paris : Bill Coleman, Stéphane Grapelli,Memphis Slim a. o.1961
Claude Bolling Sextet /Big Band 1963 LP-recordings with
Duke Ellington ,Billy Strayhorn ,Alice Babs , Tour withBeryl Bryden , Diz Dizzley and Johnny Parker inMalaysia andSarawak .1964 with
tap dancer Harold Nicholas , Renè Urtreger1965-68 studio-musician in
Paris , again withClaude Bolling 1969 moves back to
Berne . “FOUR FOR JAZZ”, Heinz Bigler, Isla Eckinger, Joe Haider, Gerd Dudek, Benny Bailey. Co-founder of the Swiss Jazz School1970 Initiator of the first international Jazz Clinic in
Wengen ,Switzerland 1972 moves to
Frankfurt / M.,Albert Mangelsdorff Quintett, until 1977 tours inEurope ,Asia ,Africa ,Near East .1973 publication of his “neuen schlagzeugschule” Vol. I (out of print)
1975 solo percussion LP: “family of percussion”. Founds Label “nagara-records”
1976 trio “Giger-Lenz-Marron”. Initiator and director of the first percussion-course in
Weikersheim 1977 solo performance at the Berliner Jazztage. “neue schlagzeugschule” Vol. II (out of print). Solo-LP is produced in the USA by the initiative of
Max Roach . Founds the FAMILY OF PERCUSSION (FOP) withTrilok Gurtu ,Doug Hammond and Tom Nicholas1979 “direct-to-disc”-LP: “Africa meets Europe” with Papa Oyeah Makenzie (
Ghana )1980 LP and tour with FOP and
Archie Shepp 1984 FOP in
India .New Delhi ,Bombay ,Madras , Concerts a. o. with Zakir Hussain, Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman and Palghat Raghu. Guests in Gigers different groups:Naná Vasconcelos ,Gerd Dudek ,Wolfgang Dauner , Joachim Kühn, Steve Swallow, Michal Urbaniak, Victor Bailey, Alan Skidmore, Christian Escoudé, Sam Rivers, Chistof Lauer, John Schröder, Thomas Heidepriem a.m.o.. Directs the “World Percussion and Jazz Jubilee” inWengen ,Switzerland 1985 start of the collaboration with Mangelsdorff / Dauner & FOP - “Moon at noon”
1986 duo-concert with
Max Roach at the Jazzfestival, Hofheim1988 “Peter Giger Quartet” with Jasper van t‘Hof, Tomasz Stanko and Vitold Rek.
1991 “FOP & Friends” in
Mozambique . Fusion with timbila-musicians from Zavala (Leader: Eduardo Durao). “Peter Giger Trio” with Gerd Dudek and Vitold Rek1992 “FOP & Friends” with Senegalese Group SAF SAP. Second journey to Mozambique. “JAZZ meets TIMBILA” at the JazzFest Berlin, Live-CD “Mozambique meets Europe”
1994 moves to
Meissen (Saxony) and founds Sound-Studio. Tour with his trio and with FOP in Eastern Germany.1996 Third visit of FOP to
Mozambique . Festivals in Zavala and Maputo.1999 Film: HERR DER TROMMELN (Lord of the drums) “the Peter Giger Story”. Initiates “Association World museum of Percussion-Instruments Dresden”, with teachers and professors of the music-academy “Carl Maria von Weber”, a. o. Siegfried Ludwig, Günter “Baby” Sommer and Bernhard Schmidt.
2000 FOP participates at the “Euro Art Meeting” in Wroclav,
Poland : “Ethnic Percussion Symphony” by Sambor Dudzinski2002 / 2003 Moves to Ticino (Switzerland), Solo concerts, regular participation at “Perugia Classico”, concerts at the Film-Festival
Locarno .2004 Solo Tour in West Africa (Ivory Coast,
Cameroun ,Senegal )2005 Concert in
Dakar with “Géwél Rhythm Begg Falou” for theGoethe Institut 2006 Issue of “A Drum is a Woman”, double CD by Intuition Records.
2007 Concerts a. o. at the Film-Festival Locarno. Tour with a nine piece Ensemble „World Family of Percussion Pack” in Germany (30 years Family of Percussion).
Resources
* [http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/musician.php?id=15305 Peter Giger] at All About Jazz
External links
*Peter Giger [http://www.peter-giger.de Official website]
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