Jason Seizer

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Jason Seizer at a concert with his quartet on December 1, 2017 in the Stadtkirche Darmstadt

Jason Seizer (born June 30, 1964 in Stuttgart ) is a German tenor saxophonist of modern jazz and music producer . According to Hans-Jürgen Schaal , he is “a free spirit, a bulky loner who places the highest demands on himself”.

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Seizer learned the recorder from the age of four, then the flute. It was only at the age of 23 that he switched to jazz, impressed by John Coltrane . He studied with Ferdinand Povel at the Hilversum Conservatory and then spent a few months in New York City , where he took lessons with Ralph Moore and Joe Lovano . He then moved to Munich and founded his own quartet, which he has presented on several recordings since 1996. First he worked with Walter Lang , Nicolas Thys and Rick Hollander , then with the guitarist Peter Bernstein and with the organist Larry Goldings . He also played with the Sunday Night Orchestra , Bobby Burgess , Johannes Herrlich , the Munich Saxophone Family , Dusko Goykovich , Thomas Zoller and Maria Schneider . In addition, in 2000 and 2001 he worked as a program designer for the Munich jazz club Unterfahrt . Since 2004 he has played in a quartet with Marc Copland , Henning Sieverts and Jochen Rückert , and since 2008 with bassist Matthias Pichler and drummer Tony Martucci. In 2015 he presented the album Cinema Paradiso (with Pablo Held , Matthias Pichler and Fabian Arends ).

Together with the Munich businessman Ralph Bürklin, Seizer founded the Pirouet Records label in 2003 , for which he also works as a producer and sound engineer. Since 2013 he has presented guests in conversation or in musical dialogue in his jazz salon at Heppel & Ettlich .

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  1. CD review Cinema Paradiso Jazzzeitung
  2. A label for every musician: Jason Seizer, Hugo Siegmeth and André Nendza report on Jazzzeitung 4/2005, pp. 22–23
  3. Jazz in conversation: Jason Seizers little series in Heppel & Ettlich Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 30, 2016