Bänz Oester

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Bänz Oester at the Unterfahrt jazz club (Munich 2009)

Bänz Oester (* 1966 in Bern ) is a Swiss jazz bassist.

Act

Oester studied classical double bass from 1983 to 1987 with Bela Szedlak , and from 1986 to 1989 at the Swiss Jazz School with Peter Frei . He worked as a sideman with Dewey Redman , Joe Lovano , Michael Brecker , Ray Anderson , Arthur Blythe , Joey Baron , Chris Potter , Marc Johnson , Bill Stewart , Gary Bartz , Jim Black , Walter Norris , Michel Godard , Adam Nussbaum and many others.

He led numerous bands of his own, including several trio formations, u. a. the Trio Oester with Mike del Ferro and Gilbert Paeffgen , Trio Weiss , Oester Pfammatter , Who with Michel Wintsch and Gerry Hemingway , Braff , Oester, Rohrer , The Bridge with Philipp Schaufelberger and Pierre Favre , with whose ensemble he produced the ECM album Fleuve ( 2006), as well as various quartet and quintet formations. He also worked as a duo with Hiroko Takada and Andreas Schaerer . He has been leading the successful Rainmakers quartet since 2012 .

In addition to albums as a sideman and bandleader, he released the solo album Blospermint Suite in 2007 . Oester is professor for double bass and ensemble playing at the jazz department of the Basel University of Music .

Discographic notes

  • Aventure Dupont Cohabitation (with Gilbert Paeffgen and Vinz Vonlanthen ), 1988
  • Weiss-Oester-Pfammatter Album , 1992
  • Bänz Oester Quintet Max , 1999 (with Donat Fisch , Philipp Schaufelberger, Hans-Peter Pfammatter and Norbert Pfammatter )
  • Who Open Songs , 2002
  • BraffOesterRohrer The Tide Is In , 2003
  • BraffOesterRohrer Maximal Music / Not For Sale , 2005
  • Blospermint Suite , solo album, Leo Records 2007
  • BraffOesterRohrer Walkabout , 2008
  • Andreas Schaerer / Bänz Oester Schibboleth , 2011
  • Bänz Oester & The Rainmakers Playing at the Bird's Eye ( Unit Records ) 2014 (with Ganesh Geymeier , Afrika Mkhize , Ayanda Sikade )
  • Bänz Oester & The Rainmakers Ukuzinikela Live in Willisau ( Enja Yellowbird) 2016 (with Ganesh Geymeier, Afrika Mkhize, Ayanda Sikade)
  • Alvin Schwaar / Bänz Oester / Noé Franklé: Travellin 'Light , Leo Records, 2020

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ^ Rainmakers (Deutschlandfunk)
  2. ^ Oester profile , Basel Jazz Campus
  3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from March 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Making it Rain Jazz , theconmag.co.za June 27, 2014, accessed March 21, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Oester, Bänz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss jazz bassist
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern