Gregor Hilbe

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Gregor Hilbe (born January 2, 1968 in Basel ) is a Swiss jazz musician ( drums , percussion , electronics).

Live and act

Hilbe grew up in a musical family in Riehen ; his grandfather was a silent film pianist , his mother sparked his enthusiasm for jazz, and the saxophonist Alexander Hilbe is his older brother. He decided early on to become a musician. From 1987 to 1991 he studied at the Kunsthochschule Graz .

Between 1991 and 2000 he lived in Paris; he has worked with Mark Murphy , the Vienna Art Orchestra (1996-1998, album: American Rhapsody ), Dave Liebman , Kurt Elling , Joe Lovano , Art Farmer , Bob Mintzer , Andy Bey , Joseph Bowie , Sheila Jordan and Monica Zetterlund . In 1996 he was a founding member of the Paris collective ToySun and the Trio République Electrique . In 2001 he moved to London with his wife, where he worked on Project Avril and with Kevin Davy and Tim Philbert ( Goldie ).

He has lived in Basel since 2003. With the band Tango Crash he released four albums. Between 2007 and 2016 he was involved in Urban Folktales and two other productions by the Jazz Big Band Graz . He continued to work with Johannes Enders in Enders Dome , in Oloid (with Christian Zehnder and Matthias Loibner ), with Heinrich von Kalnein and Anıl Bilgen in Kahiba and with Christoph Pepe Auer ( Songs I Like ), but also with Theo Bleckmann , Hans Feigenwinter , Guillermo Klein , Nguyên Lê , Bänz Oester , Gianluca Petrella , Jorge Rossy , Lisette Spinnler and Sebastian Studnitzky . He is currently also on the road with his solo project 'Boomless'.

Since 2016 he has headed the jazz and pop department at the Zurich University of the Arts ; continues to teach at the Basel Jazz Campus, where he previously developed a course in producing and performing .

Hilbe is assigned its own musical language, "which unites the directness and physicality of the repetitive rhythms with the sensuality of electronic aesthetics". He combines styles and influences from jazz to pop music to electronic music .

Prizes and awards

With the group Tango Crash he received the Ruth World Music Prize as a "newcomer" in 2005 and the German Record Critics' Prize in 2008 . The culture prize of the municipality of Riehen, endowed with CHF 15,000, was awarded in 2018 to Hilbe.

Discographic notes

  • Kahiba: The Neuroscience of Music (Natango 2018, with Heinrich von Kalnein and Anıl Bilgen)
  • Christian Zehnder & Gregor Hilbe: Oloid ( Traumton 2013)
  • BOWW: Tribal Poetry: The Tree (Rhythming 2009)
  • Tango Crash: Baila Querida (Galileo 2008; German Record Critics' Award)
  • Toysun: Resound to Sender (Comet Records 2004)
  • Avril: Members Only (F-Com 2003)
  • République Electrique: Jupiter Comes & Goes (rhythming 2000)
  • Uli Rennert Quartet What You Give ( Extraplatte 1992)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b How music gets out of school. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . October 26, 2016. Retrieved September 28, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c portrait of Georg Hilbe
  3. ↑ a b Drummer Gregor Hilbe receives Riehener Kulturpreis 2018. In: telebasel.ch. Retrieved September 28, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hilbe, Gregor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss jazz musician (drums, percussion) and music producer
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd January 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel