Jo Beyer

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jo Beyer (born November 17, 1991 in Essen ) is a German jazz musician ( drums , composition).

Beyer studied at the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences and the Royal Music Academy in Aarhus and has lived in Cologne since 2016. With the trio Malstrom , which includes Florian Walter (saxophone) and Axel Zajac (guitar), he won various jazz prizes, such as the European Burghauser Young Talent Award in 2015 , the Getxo Jazz Competition in 2017 and the Biberach Jazz Award in 2018 . and also won the Sparda Jazz Award with the bands Bodosapiens and Der weise Panda . At the beginning of 2017 he completed his bachelor's concert with his own compositions, which he presented with his quartet JO (with Sven Decker , tenor saxophone, Roman Babik , piano and Andreas Wahl , guitars) in the Cologne loft . With this band he released your debut album as band leader on Unit Records in May 2017 . The second album Party (Berthold Records) followed in September 2019 .

With his own projects as well as as a sideman in various bands, Beyer regularly plays tours and concerts and is involved in CD, radio and television productions. He has already been musically active at international festivals in Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Norway, Belgium, France, Denmark, Russia, China, Malaysia and the Czech Republic. (Among others OCT Jazz Festival (Shenzhen, China), Jazz Festival Bonn , International Jazz Week Burghausen , B-Jazz Festival Belgium, International Jazz Festival Greiz, Young Talent Festival Leipzig, Mibnight Jazz Festival Bremen, Getxo Jazz Festival)

Discographic notes

  • Aaron Seitz, Yannik Tiemann, Jo Beyer: Bodosapiens (2013)
  • Malstrom: Phantom Architect (Tiefton Records, 2016)
  • JO ( Unit Records , 2017)
  • Malstrom + Florian Weber (bass, 2017)
  • Malstrom: Live at Int. Getxo Jazz Festival (Errabal Jazz, 2017)
  • Isthmus: Northern Line (Super Music, 2018)
  • Sven Decker's July Quartet: Lost in Poll (Green Deer Music, 2018)
  • JO: Party (Berthold Records, 2019)
  • The wise panda: ( Jazzhaus Records 2020, with Maika Küster , Felix Hauptmann , Talia Erdal, Yannik Tiemann )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Metal jazz trio wins the jazz week's young talent award
  2. ↑ Bernd Guido Weber: Rousing Nu Jazz and delicate ballads. Retrieved August 7, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Foundation supports young jazz musicians (2016) in the Sparda West Foundation
  4. ↑ Sparda Jazz Award supports young jazz talents (2015) in the Sparda West Foundation
  5. ↑ Event information at Loft (Cologne)
personal data
SURNAME Beyer, Jo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH eat