Daniel Guggenheim (musician)

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Daniel Guggenheim (* 1954 in Zurich ) is a Swiss jazz saxophonist .

Live and act

Guggenheim learned the recorder at the age of five and received piano lessons from the age of eight. At sixteen he played keyboard in a pop band, only to switch to blues and jazz a year later and discover the saxophone for himself. Between 1976 and 1981 he studied saxophone, composition and arrangement at the Swiss Jazz School in Bern .

Guggenheim then went to Paris , then to Rio de Janeiro . In 1983 he met Hermeto Pascoal there, in whose group he played. In 1984 he played with the Swiss rhythm & blues band lazy poker, among others , before moving to the vicinity of Frankfurt am Main , where he has since worked as a teacher in the Frankfurt music workshop . In addition, he led his own groups with whom he toured Europe and South America (including Jasper van't Hof , Christoph Sänger and Udo Kistner ) and made records. In 1994/95 he made his first stay in New York City , where he played with Elvin Jones , Cecil McBee , Richie Beirach , Billy Hart and Roy Hargrove . With Jeff Williams , Scott Lee and Russ Lossing he recorded the CD Sojurn in 1996 and went on a European tour. Further engagements with Bob Degen , Vitold Rek , Keith Copeland , Janusz Stefański , David Liebman , Jürgen Wuchner and Harry Beckett followed, including with Nena and Udo Lindenberg . In 1996 he founded The New York Quartet, with which he recorded the first CD Traces of in 2005 . With the guitarist Georg Crostewitz he formed the Duo Leaf; he also played in the swing size orchestra. He also recorded with Petr Korinek and the Karma Jazz Group around Natalya Karmazin .

Daniel Guggenheim lives and works in Frankfurt am Main.

Band projects

  • The New York Quartet (since 1996) with Peter Madsen - piano, Sean Smith - bass, Gerald Cleaver - drums (until 2012), since then Devin Gray
  • The Hip (since 2006) with Ulf Kleiner - piano / Fender Rhodes, Hanns Höhn - bass, Tobias Backhaus - drums
  • Daniel Guggenheim Quartet (since 2009) with Wesley G - guitar, Rudi Engel - bass, Axel Pape - drums
  • Grandsheiks Playing the Music of Frank Zappa (since 2012), with Jörg Heuser - guitar, keyboard, vocals, Maximilian Hilbrand - lead vocals, Thomas Schmittinger - guitar, vocals, Andi Mertens - bass, vocals, Christian Majdecki - drums

Discographic notes

  • Daniel Guggenheim Group - feat. Jasper van't Hof (with Peter Feil , Udo Kistner, Tom Nicholas , Roland Henkel; Laika Records , 1990)
  • Daniel Guggenheim Group & Special Guest Hermeto Pascoal Strange Beauty (with Martin Lehner, Christof Sänger , Udo Kistner, Gerd Breuer ; Network Medien, 1992)
  • Sojurn (with Russ Lossing, Scott Lee, Jeff Williams; Edition Collage / GLM, 1996)
  • Traces of ... (with Peter Madsen, Gerald Cleaver; Laika Records, 2005)
  • Grandsheiks Flies All Green and Buzzin´ (Goodlife Records, 2012)
  • Beyond Moments & Time (with Peter Madsen , Sean Smith , Devin Gray ; Laika Records 2013)
  • Grandsheiks Dungeon Of Despair (Goodlife Records, 2014)

Lexigraphic entries

  • Bruno Spoerri , Biographical Lexicon of Swiss Jazz CD supplement to: B. Spörri (Hrsg.): Jazz in Switzerland. History and stories. Chronos-Verlag, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0739-6

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SURNAME Guggenheim, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich