Florian Egli
Florian Michael Benedikt Egli (* 1982 in Trasadingen ) is a Swiss jazz musician ( alto and soprano saxophone , clarinet , flute , composition).
Egli comes from a musical family and already played the recorder and piano at the age of five and learned the saxophone at the age of eleven . During his school days he played in the funk and hip-hop band Moondogs , with which the first recordings were made. He studied music at the Zurich University of the Arts with Christoph Grab and Reto Suhner , received a scholarship from the Friedl Wald Foundation, played in the Swiss Jazz Orchestra and was a member of the Lucerne Jazz Orchestra , on whose albums Don't Walk Too Far and Berge Versetzen (with Claudio Puntin , 2010) he was involved. He also worked with Jürg Wickihalder ( Narziss and Echo , 2011). His own band projects are Florian Egli's The Murder of Amus Ames and Weird Beard , with which he won second place at the ZKB Jazz Prize in 2014. Since 2008, Egli has also been on the board of the “Jazzbaragge” association.
Discographic notes
- Florian Egli's The Murder of Amus Ames: Murderish Good Music ( Unit Records , 2010), with Claude Meier , Andreas Wettstein and Christoph Grab
- Weird Beard: Away (Unit Records, 2012), with Dave Gisler , Valentin Dietrich , Rico Baumann
- Florian Egli Weird Beard: Everything Moves ( Intakt Records , 2016), with Dave Gisler , Martina Berther , Rico Baumann
Web links
- Web presence
- Weird Beard
- Florian Egli at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Portrait at mehrspur.ch
- ↑ Tom Lord : Jazz Discography (Online, accessed April 22, 2017)
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| SURNAME | Egli, Florian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Egli, Florian Michael Benedikt (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss jazz musician (alto and soprano saxophone, clarinet, flute, composition) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1982 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Trasadingen |