Black & White Cooperation
| Black & White Cooperation | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Jazz groove |
| Website | http://www.black-and-white-coop.de |
| Founding members | |
| Anke Schimpf | |
| Tom Nicholas | |
| Christoph Paulssen | |
| Georg Göb | |
The Black & White Cooperation is a German-American jazz band. The name arose from the fact that the band consists of two black and two white musicians.
style
The Black & White Cooperation plays its own compositions throughout, the spectrum of the band ranging from ballads to South American music, blues and funk to fusion . The band calls their style of music itself Jazzgroove, the basics of which are the groove and the melody .
When the band was founded in 1991 by Anke Schimpf and Tom Nicholas , the two initially looked for like-minded people. Nicholas previously played with Ornette Coleman and Kenny Burell, among others . In 1996 the bassist Christoph Paulssen joined them and in 2001 the pianist Georg Göb.
Göb, who studied music education and musicology, worked as an experienced (studio) musician with Suzi Quatro , Helen Schneider and Götz Alsmann , among others .
Discography
- 2003 - musics
- 2009 - synergies
- 2013 - change to