Axel Fischbacher

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Axel Fischbacher (born April 24, 1956 in Lübeck ) is a German jazz guitarist , composer and producer.

Live and act

Fischbacher grew up in different cities, most recently in the Rhineland. As a student he decided to work as a professional musician and worked as a rock musician in various bands. After graduating from high school, he first played dance music in Spain and after his return he worked for Prox and the fusion-funk-jazz project Senora . He studied at the Robert Schumann Conservatory in Düsseldorf and the Pädagogische Hochschule Rheinland (Neuss) , the Musikhochschule Köln , and at the Canadian Banff Center of Arts , but was mainly influenced by lessons from John Scofield and John Abercrombie . During the 1980s he performed as guitarist for the Christoph Spendel Group all over Europe and founded his own band, with which he released six albums.

Fischbacher took part in more than fifty CD recordings, played numerous tours in Europe, Canada and the USA and performed at many well-known jazz festivals. He worked with musicians such as Danny Gottlieb , Mark Egan , Adam Nussbaum , Ohad Talmor , Marc Johnson , Michael Urbaniak , Joe Haider , Barney Willen , Steve Grossman , Curt Cress , Stu Goldberg , Hermeto Pascoal and Ronnie Barrage , Annie Whitehead , Béatrice Graf and Ingrid Jensen .

In the 1980s, Fischbacher tours Europe as a member of the established Christoph Spendel Group. In 1984 he received the German Phono Academy award for the album "Rumba Ibiza" with his own combo, the Axel Fischbacher Group. At the end of the 80s came the time of TV music. Fischbacher sets entire series to music (" Sekt or Selters "), he is a composer and producer of film, TV and drama music. Then Switzerland calls. No sooner had he settled in - he played for the musical "Little Shop of Horrors" and got to know various musicians - in 1992 Fischbacher accepted a teaching position at the Swiss Jazz School in Bern. Between 1992 and 1999 he is a member of the Daniel Küffer Quartet. In 1999 Fischbacher is back in the Rhineland. He founded “Jazz Attack” with Stefan Rademacher , Kurt Billker and Frank Kirchner . In 2010 Axel Fischbacher received a composition commission from the city of Hilden (“The World is not a Disc”).

Axel Fischbacher now brings together individual projects from time to time with the guitarists Philipp van Endert and Markus Wienstroer and the New York pianist (and namesake) Walter Fischbacher .

For some years now, Fischbacher has focused its work on top-class jazz sessions in small clubs. Therefore, in addition to the Capio-Jazz (Hilden) and the Jazzattack ( Jazzkeller Krefeld ), he has established his Blue Monday series in Hilden. Here he improvises every 14 days with jazz musicians. Axel Fischbacher is also the initiator and artistic director of jazz workshops in Hilden.

Prizes and awards

In 1984 he was awarded the German Phono Academy Prize for his album Rumba Ibiza . In 1987 he received the WDR Town Music Prize. His music for the short film "Goose Bumps" received the Locarno Film Festival award .

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SURNAME Fischbacher, Axel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck