Claus Fischer (musician)

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Claus Fischer plays during a vigil for "We are Charlie - For Freedom and Diversity" on January 14, 2015 in Cologne

Claus Fischer (* 11. April 1965 in Leverkusen ) is a German Jazz - and Pop - musicians , who also serves as music producer operates. In addition to electric bass , he plays guitar and drums .

Live and act

Claus Fischer taught himself guitar, bass and drums as an autodidact . Since 1988 he has presented seven albums with the “Franck Band” (with Hinrich Franck , Werner Neumann and Hardy Fischötter ). In the early 1990s he formed the group "Drei vom Rhein" with Werner Neumann and drummer Alex Vesper (since 2002 with singer Pit Hupperten), which recorded six albums with German lyrics and a mixture of funk , fusion jazz and funk punk and toured Germany, Graduated from Indonesia, Turkey and Central Asia.

As a live bassist, he was best known for his work as MD, bassist and guitarist in the band Heavytones from TV , in which he played from 2001 to 2004. In May 2004 he switched to the Anke Late Night show , where he was the band leader of the "Electric Ladyband". As a studio and live musician, he worked a. a. with Stefan Raab , Chaka Khan , Larry Carlton , Lee Ritenour , Lionel Richie , Christopher Cross , Guildo Horn , Don Grusin , Charlie Mariano , Dan McCafferty and others v. m. In total, he has contributed to over 300 CDs and around 800 TV shows.

Fischer was married to Anke Engelke from the end of 2005 to May 2015 and has two children with her, as well as a son from his previous marriage.

Since 1990 he has been employed as a lecturer at the Bass School in Munich, whose Cologne branch he headed from 1995 to 2000. As a producer he supervised a. a. Gregor Meyle and Angelo Kelly . Together with Helge Rosenbaum, he wrote the textbook Masters of Drum , which uses sixteen well-known rock and fusion drummers to introduce their way of playing with techniques, licks and stickings .

At the moment he is in the studio and live a. a. out and about with Larry Carlton , Butterscotch , Phunkguerilla , Felix Lehrmann and Jesse Milliner .

Fonts

Web links

Commons : Claus Fischer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Scala, Leverkusen-Opladen - Cantina, Club, Cinema. Retrieved August 28, 2018 .
  2. ↑ http://unterhaltung.t-online.de/c/17/67/62/42/17676242.html
  3. ↑ Anke Engelke - Separation! In: stern.de. May 12, 2015, accessed May 16, 2018 .
  4. ↑ AMA Verlag GmbH: AMA Verlag - The music publisher for sheet music and textbooks. Retrieved August 28, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Claus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz and pop musician
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Leverkusen