Heinz Geisser
Heinz Geisser (* 1961 in Zurich ) is a Swiss jazz and improvisation musician ( guitar , drums , percussion ).
Live and act
Geisser studied classical guitar with Ermano Maggini and percussion with Horst Hofmann at the Zurich Conservatory of Music. After graduating in classical guitar playing, he began to deal with jazz guitar as an autodidact ; The first recordings with Urs Blöchlinger appeared in 1988 . In the early 1990s he musically shifted more to percussion and improvised music. In 1992 he worked in New York with Mark Hennen (piano), Jeff Hoyer (trombone) and William Parker in the Collective 4tet , with which recordings for Leo Records were made. Geisser has also worked with Guerino Mazzola , Sirone , Mat Maneri , Rob Brown , Arthur Brooks , Scott Fields , Shiro Onuma , Eiichi Hayashi , Takayuki Kato and I Wayan Sadra . In the field of jazz and improvisational music, he was involved in 26 recording sessions between 1987 and 2010.
Discographic notes
- Maze (1997), with Guerino Mazzola, Scott Fields, and Matt Turner
- Rob Brown / Heinz Geisser / Guerino Mazzola: Orbit ( Music & Arts Program of America , 1998)
- Heinz Geisser / Guerino Mazzola: Toni's Delight: Live in Seoul ( Cadence Jazz Records , 1998)
- Heinz Geisser / Guerino Mazzola: Chomotomy ( Black Saint , 2004)
- Shiro Onuma / Heinz Geisser: Duo (Leo, 2008)
- Heinz Geisser / Shiro Onuma: Rain of Light (Cadence Jazz Records, 2009)
- On Bashamichi Avenue (Leo, 2012), with Eiichi Hayashi, Takayuki Kato, Yuki Saga
Web links
- Web presence
- Heinz Geisser at Allmusic (English)
- Heinz Geisser at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Geisser, Heinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss jazz and improvisation musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |