Beat Baumli

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Beat Baumli (born October 20, 1956 in Untersiggenthal ) is a Swiss jazz guitarist .

Life

Baumli grew up in Baden in the Canton of Aargau and initially trained himself as a rock guitarist . In 1981 he began a part-time training at the Swiss Jazz School, which was continued in a study at Berklee College of Music , which lasted from 1984 to 1987 . There he studied jazz composition and arranging with Hal Crook and improvisational theory with Gary Burton .

Since his return from Boston he has been living as a freelance jazz guitarist, composer and arranger, is a band leader of various jazz formations and teaches part-time as a guitar teacher. In addition to appearances with countless ad hoc formations, he plays as a permanent member and a. in the Alexia Gardner Trio, the quartet jazzIMpuls and as band leader in the BB & JM Trio with whom he produced the album First Call in 2012, on which three of his compositions and various of his arrangements can be heard. His arrangements and compositions have also been released on Alexia Gardner's CD Live At The Birdseye Jazz Club.

He specializes in small pieces of information such as duo, trio, quartet and has been performing regularly at live events of all kinds since 1987, in jazz clubs as well as in cultural clubs, mainly with musicians from the Swiss jazz scene. For example in the Baumli-Schöb Quartet with Carlo Schöb , Peter Frei and Dominic Egli and in the jazzIMpuls quartet with Peter Candiotto, Peter Schmidlin and the Canadian Laura Cesar.

Discographic notes

  • 2006 Windrose - Laura Cesar (three titles in a duo with Laura Cesar)
  • 2011 A Little Closer - Alexia Gardner Live At The Birdseye Jazz Club (Alexia Gardner voc. / Beat Baumli git. / Lorenz Beyeler bass)
  • 2013 First Call - BB & JM Trio (Beat Baumli git. / Jürg Morgenthaler sax, flute / Giorgos Antoniou bass) - ALLJAZZ 1301
  • 2014 Cinema Paradiso - Beat Baumli & Dani Solimine Guitar Talk (Beat Baumli git. / Dani Solimine git.) - ALLJAZZ 1401
  • 2015 Close Your Eyes - Laura Cesar jazz impuls ( Carlo Schöb sax, flute / Beat Baumli git. / Laura Cesar bass / Pius Baschnagel dr) - ALLJAZZ 1501

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BB & JM Trio - First Call on www.discogs.com
  2. ↑ www.alexiagardner-a-little-closer.com ( Memento of the original from June 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.alexiagardner-a-little-closer.com
  3. ↑ www.Jazzindex.ch
personal data
SURNAME Baumli, Beat
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss jazz guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Untersiggenthal