Fredy Bühler

Fredy Bühler (born March 5, 1938 ) is a Swiss jazz musician ( drums , initially cornet and trumpet ).

Act

Bühler played in the Glarus College Swing Society from 1957 ; from 1959 he was a member of the Luck Tremblers , to which he belonged until 1968. Then he played in The City Workshop Band until 1976 . Between 1976 and 2003 he was a member of the Coalition and Jazz Coalition (and then of the New Coalition and Vocoalition ). He also worked with the Glarona Jazz Tigers and the Jumping Stones as well as in the Glarona Big Band (1978-1989). He was also President of Pro Jazz Switzerland .

Discographic notes

• City Workshop Band Sunrise (EP TCWB 1969)
• City Workshop Band Annerösli (EP Liverpool 1970) /
• Jazz Coalition Das ist mein Glarus (LP Patria 1976)
• Glarona Jazz Tigers Swinging Tigers (MC 1976)
• Glarona Big Band On Tour (LP UNH 1983)
• Jazz Coalition Minor League (CD Elchi 2000)

literature

• Werner Tian Fischer Jazz im Glarnerland, in: Yearbook of the Historisches Verein des Kantons Glarus 86 (2006), pp. 7-138
• Bruno Spoerri (Ed.): Biographical Lexicon of Swiss Jazz. CD supplement to: Bruno Spoerri (Ed.): Jazz in Switzerland. History and stories. Chronos-Verlag, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0739-6

Web links

• Swiss Jazz Discography
• “Jazz was a protest against everything established” (PDF; 126 kB), Die Südostschweiz , March 3, 2005