Jo Ambros

Jo Ambros at the St. Ingbert Jazz Festival 2016

Jo Ambros (born September 3, 1973 in Böblingen ) is a German jazz musician and guitarist .

Jo Ambros learned guitar with Philipp Konowski and studied jazz and popular music at the University of Music in Würzburg and with Werner Acker at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart (graduated in 2002 with distinction). He received a scholarship for New York from the German Academic Exchange Service . In 2001 he received a scholarship from the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation . At the invitation of the Society for New Music Cologne , he performed with the Ensemble Modern in the “Live and Electronics” competition . He also plays live music with drummer Jogi Nestel to surreal silent films (by Georges Méliès , Virgil Widrich , Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí ).

In addition to concerts with Helen Schneider , Marcia Haydée , Giora Feidman , Les McCann and the Pointer Sisters , he also worked on radio plays (with Patrick Bebelaar and Frank Kroll ), on sound installations with the visual artist Eva Paulitsch (SoundCities, 1998) and in the theater sector ( Theresa's dream, Museumsquartier Vienna). In 2004 his solo CD "wanderlust" was released. He can also be heard on the CDs "Reality Music" by Torsten Krill's frimfram collective (Vol. 1 nominated for the Prize of the German Record Critics 2004, Vol. 2. 2006). In 2002 he recorded the CD "republic of" with the Danish-German jazz quartet mold (nominated for the Danish Jazz Prize 2003). Further CDs were made with David Orlowsky's Klezmorim.

Jo Ambros is considered one of the most interesting and versatile jazz guitarists of the younger generation. In 2004 he was awarded the Baden-Württemberg Jazz Prize for "his great stylistic breadth and the expressiveness of his artistic work" .

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