Christian Willisohn

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Christian Willisohn (born January 22, 1962 in Munich ) is a German blues pianist and singer.

At the concert on the 50th birthday, Incontri , Rohrbach / Ilm

life and work

Living with music

His musical career began in 1980 in clubs in Munich; In 1986 he gave up his job as a stonemason and sculptor. In 1987 he played with Zora Young for the first time in the USA. Since then he has played with many international blues musicians. Today he appears all over Europe with classics and his own compositions with texts by his wife, Alexandra Mayer.

In 1988 the long-term collaboration with Lillian Boutté began, which only ended due to her tragic illness . Since 1992 he has been working with the Dutch saxophonist Boris Vanderlek. In 1995 he produced a textbook for blues & boogie piano with Prof. Herbert Wiedemann from the Berlin University of the Arts . In 1996 he founded the Art By Heart label with master piano builder Rainer Schmidt .

In 2003 he established the success of the festival series with his appearance at the B&B Rhythm'n'Blues Festival in Halle (Westphalia) .

In 2008 and 2009 he accompanied the “ Sea Cloud II ” with concert tours from Hamburg to St. Petersburg and from Naples to Venice. The band “Southern Spirit” re-formed around him in autumn 2010 with Boris van der Lek (saxophone), Titus Vollmer (guitar, vocal); Peter Kraus (drums, vocal), Matthias Engelhardt (bass).

He has the ability to always build a bridge with his music from jazz and blues to classical and other music. In interaction with his band and other musicians, he proves himself to be a good team player who likes to see his colleagues shine too.

Film music

Film score for “Der Sonnenstratege” in collaboration with Titus Vollmer

Albums

  • 1990 Boogie Woogie and some Blues
  • 1991 Lipstick Traces , with Lillian Boutté and The Fats Domino Rhythm Section
  • 1994 Blues News , with Boris van der Lek
  • 1995 Blues On The World , Christian Willisohn Trio
  • 1996 Heart Broken Man , Christian Willisohn Band
  • 1997 Come Together , with Lillian Boutté
  • 2000 Live at Marians
  • 2004 Hold On
  • 2004 Otto Krause has the blues , with Jacques Berndorf
  • 2007 Live at Dixieland Jubilee
  • 2009 Samiras Blues , with Jacques Berndorf
  • 2011 Back in the limelight , with Boris van der Lek
  • 2012 30 years of blues
  • 2012 NUTTENBUNKER , with Jacques Berndorf

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.willisohn.com/songs.php
  2. ↑ http://www.jazzzeitung.de/ausgabe9803/art.htm
  3. ↑ http://www.artbyheart.de/
  4. ↑ B&W Rhythm'n'Blues Festival since 2003. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 14, 2017 ; accessed on August 13, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bw-blues-festival.de
  5. ↑ Southern Spirit, Jazz Week Burghausen 2014. Retrieved on August 3, 2017 .
  6. ^ Review in Bowers & Wilkins R&B Festival 2004 , illustrated book with DVD, p. 9, ORO-Druck, Werther, 2005

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personal data
SURNAME Willisohn, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German blues pianist and singer
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich