Gismo Graf

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Gismo Graf (born October 1, 1992 in Stuttgart ) is a German jazz musician ( guitar , composition ).

Gismo Graf 2016

Live and act

Graf learned to play the guitar at the age of 6. His father Joschi Graf (co-founder of the Zigeli Winter Quintet ) taught his son the first chords and rhythm playing on the guitar. A short time later he began to teach himself to play melody and solo. He focused strongly on his role model Django Reinhardt by listening to and replaying his recordings. At the age of 12 he made his first guest appearances in his father's band.

In 2008 Graf's first band was created under the name 16 Gypsy Strings . Other members besides Graf were Jan Jankeje (double bass) and Graf's father Joschi ( rhythm guitar ). The band toured Germany and neighboring countries before they broke up in early 2010. In autumn 2010, Gismo Graf founded the Gismo Graf Trio with his father Joschi Graf on rhythm guitar and the Stuttgart bassist Joel Locher . The first concert took place on October 1st, 2010, on Graf's eighteenth birthday, at the guitar festival in the sold-out Wehrer town hall. In the same year he managed to cause a sensation in the gypsy jazz scene with his album Absolutely Gypsy and the tour of the same name .

In the following years Graf toured with his trio through Germany, Europe and the USA. They performed at the Django Reinhardt Festival in Samois-sur-Seine (F), the Viersen Jazz Festival , the Rheingau Music Festival , the Freiburg Tent Music Festival , the international Gipsy Guitar Festival Gossington (UK) and the Blue Balls Festival Lucerne (CH), the Django a Liberchies Festival (B), the Villa Celimontana Jazz Festival Rome (IT), the Walkenried cloister concerts and many more. on. In 2012 the Austrian publisher Doblinger published the book “Swing Up Your Guitar! Modern Gypsy Jazz Collection ”, in which Graf was a co-author .

Graf worked with musicians such as Stochelo Rosenberg , Ludovic Beier , Diknu Schneeberger , Tony Lakatos , Jermaine Landsberger , Olaf Polziehn , Tim Kliphuis , Davide Petrocca (who is also the sub double bass player of the Gismo Graf Trio).

Gismo Graf Trio at the Zelt Musik Festival Freiburg 2013

Guitars

Gismo Graf, like his father Joschi Graf, plays guitars made by the German master luthier Stefan Hahl , who developed the La Comtesse ( currently: the Countess ) model especially for her . Graf and his father also play guitars made by the Italian guitar maker Mauro Freschi . In 2015 he signed an endorsement contract with a French guitar company ( MarTo Guitars ) for a semi-acoustic archtop jazz guitar .

Discography (selection)

tape title Publishing year
Gismo Graf Trio Absolutely gypsy 2010
Gismo Graf Trio The Pure Way 2012
Gismo Graf Trio modus vivendi 2013
Gismo Graf Trio The Django Reinhardt Memorial Concert 2018

Web links

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  1. “And now he's coming as the“ front man ”of the GGT, the Gismo Graf trio. And as the internationally celebrated “Shooting Star” of Gipsy Swing Jazz. ” - Georg Linsenmann, Stuttgarter Zeitung of September 30, 2014, http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.gismo-graf-aus-zuffenhausen- steep-wrapping-with-the-guitar.6eb198f6-c40d-4ea3-9354-250528e35a54.html
  2. http://www.gismograf.de/assets/kritik-rheingau-musik-festival-2012.pdf
  3. http://gismograf.de/#shows