Christoph Oeser
Christoph Johannes Oeser (born October 21, 1956 in Offenbach am Main ) is a German boogie woogie pianist, blues and jazz musician ( piano , organ ). Together with others, he has contributed to the amazing popularity of Boogie Woogie in Germany.
Live and act
Oeser learned the piano as a child and received lessons until he was 16. In 1971 he began to self- taught with boogie-woogie and blues. With Michael Sagmeister and Bernd Kohn he founded the first band in 1975, which was active in the border area between rock jazz and blues.
During his graphic design studies he was represented on the sampler " Ried " with a solo performance and at the same time turned to the dialect blues; the album "Uff Deiwel kumm raus" received the German Record Critics' Prize in 1981 . In 1982 he recorded the album "On the Ried Road" in a trio with Bernd Kohn and Kai Eckhardt . He toured internationally with the Frankfurt City Blues Band and played concerts with Alan Skidmore , Bernhard Dill and Champion Jack Dupree .
He also performed with the Barrelhouse Jazz Band and the "Matchbox Blues Band" and accompanied Little Willie Littlefield , Johnny Copeland and Maxine Howard. Now he also enjoys a national reputation. As the successor to Leopold von Knobelsdorff, Ali Claudi brought him to the Boogie Woogie Company as a pianist in 1989 , with whom he also played at festivals a. a. also performed in Belgium, France and the Netherlands and made several records.
In 1997 he released a solo album, in 2003 an album in which he can be heard both as a soloist and in a duet with drummer Bernd Kohn and double bass player Wolfgang Mörike . He also appears as a soloist in a trio with Bernd Kohn and Wolfgang Mörike or Götz Ommert .
His father is the "environmental pastor" Kurt Oeser .
Lexigraphic entries
- Martin Kunzler : Jazz Lexicon. Volume 2: M – Z (= rororo-Sachbuch. Vol. 16513). 2nd Edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-499-16513-9 .
- Jürgen Wölfer : Jazz in Germany. The encyclopedia. All musicians and record companies from 1920 until today. Hannibal, Höfen 2008, ISBN 978-3-85445-274-4 .
- Michael Rauhut, Reinhard Lorenz (ed.): I've had the blues for a long time, traces of a music in Germany , 2008 Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-86153-495-2 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Oeser, Christoph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Oeser, Christoph Johannes (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German blues and jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 21, 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Offenbach am Main |