Jeff Cascaro

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Jeff Cascaro (* 1968 in Bochum ) is a German jazz and soul singer and trumpeter . You could assign it to the style of soul jazz .

Live and act

Cascaro won the national youth jazz competition at the age of 18 and has been a professional musician ever since. He has taken master classes with Jay Clayton , Rachel Gould , Marjorie Barnes and Walter Norris . He has appeared with most of the German radio big bands (including the NDR Big Band and RIAS Big Band ) and groups such as the Fantastischen Vier , the Guano Apes , H-Blockx , the New Rock Conference and Klaus Doldingers Passport . He also worked a. a. with Till Brönner , Ute Lemper , Sasha , Joe Sample , Howard Johnson , Georgie Fame , Herb Geller , Bobby Shew , Horst Jankowski and Götz Alsmann .

Since 2000 he has been teaching jazz singing at the Liszt School of Music in Weimar . At the casting show Deutschland sucht den Superstar he worked as a voice coach (for Thomas Godoj, among others ). After albums with the trio of Martin Sasse ( Let's Fall In Love! ) And the hr big band ( The American Songs of Kurt Weill with Silvia Droste ), his first solo album Soul of a Singer was released in 2006 (with Christian von Kaphengst as producer and Bassist, Ulf Kleiner , piano, Bruno Müller, guitar, Peter Lübke and Roland Peil , drums, and Michael Heupel , flute). The album Mother and Brother followed in 2008 . The last album Love & Blues In The City was released on Herzog Records in 2017 . The quintet consisted of Cascaro Christian von Kaphengst, Roberto Di Gioia, Hendrik Soll, Jörg Achim Keller and Flo Dauner, with the last two sharing the drummer parts.

Jeff Cascaro lives in Berlin.

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supporting documents

  1. ↑ "Made soul jazz popular in Germany like no other" , Stadtgarten Cologne, accessed September 25, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Cascaro, Jeff
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz and soul musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum