Georg Wissel

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Georg Wissel

Georg Wissel (* 1964 in Cologne ) is a German musician ( alto and tenor saxophone , clarinet ) of creative jazz and new improvisational music .

Live and act

Wissel spent his childhood and youth in Wanne-Eickel , where the music scene of the time shaped him. As a saxophonist, he gained experience in different styles of music from punk to jazz to gala performances. In the field of freely improvised music he worked with the London Improvisers Orchestra , Pöhl – Musik , SALZ , the Adam Noidlt Missiles by Frank Köllges and the Wuppertal ImprovisationsOrchester and maintains duos with Paul Lytton , Joker Nies and Tim O'Dwyer. He also played with Dusica Cajlan, George Cremaschi, Matthew Goodheart, Gunda Gottschalk , Lou Grassi , Carl Ludwig Hübsch , Paul Hubweber , Achim Krämer , Misha Mengelberg , Etienne Nillesen, Melvyn Poore and Alan Silva . He also performs with Nicolao Valiensis Banda Metafisica , Nicolas Simion , Norbert Stein's Pata on the Cadillac and the Multiple Joyce Orchestra . He has performed at festivals in Europe, South America, USA, Asia and Australia.

Since 1984 he has been teaching saxophone at the youth art school in Wanne-Eickel. Later he also led the music school's big band, which, under his leadership, took second place in the 1988 youth jazz state competition . Then he worked as a saxophone lecturer at the Theodor-Fliegner-Gymnasium in Düsseldorf, before working as a lecturer at the Open JazzHausSchule in Cologne since 1993 . In addition, he works as a workshop lecturer on school projects within the framework of the New and Improvised Music network funded by the Federal Cultural Foundation and has been a lecturer in musical group improvisation at the University of Cologne since 2019.

Discographic notes

  • Pöhl Musik Maschinenstürmer (AufRuhr 1986)
  • Bull's Eye Ensemble Live at Stadtgarten, Cologne (nurnichtnur, 1997)
  • TroisVenture TroisVenture (only not only, 1999; with Paul Hubweber, Joachim Zoepf )
  • The Arte of Navigation solo (only not only, 2001)
  • Blank Disk Trio u CudnojZemlji - im KomikerLand (nurnichtnur, 2007; with Robert Rozsa, Srdjan Muc)
  • Katachi (with Klaus Treuheit , Christoph Irmer )
  • Canaries on the Pole Canaries on the Pole (Free Elephant, 2005; with Jacques Foschia , Mike Goyvaerts, Christoph Irmer)
  • Canaries on the Pole # 2 (creative sources, 2008)
  • Wissel & Nies Corpus Callosum (aha, 2013)
  • the WISSELTANGCAMATTA movements (creative sources, 2015, with Achim Tang , Simon Camatta)
  • Mirror Unit wind makes weather (creative sources, 2015, with Tim O'Dwyer)
  • Simon Rummel Ensemble Nothing For All (umlaut records, 2016)
  • Simon Rummel Ensemble Im Meer (umlaut records, 2017)
  • the WISSELTANGCAMATTA however (surrounding Records, 2017)
  • Delon Maira Morales Wissel CONFIANCA & GEDULD (only not only Berslton, 2017)
  • CAJLAN-WISSEL-NILLESEN fourtyfour fiftyhree (creative sources, 2019)
  • Lytton Nies Scott Wissel Do They Do Those In Red? (Sound Anatomy, 2019)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait (only not only)
  2. ↑ Georg Wissel at Allmusic (English)
personal data
SURNAME Wissel, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicians (alto and tenor saxophone, clarinet) of creative jazz and new improvisation music
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne