Joe Bonica
Joseph "Joe" Bonica (* 1960 in Manchester , Connecticut ) is an American modern and pop jazz drummer .
Live and act
Bonica played in jazz rock bands in the 1970s . He settled in Gießen , where he played with local bands such as Double Bind , Yog Sothot and Up-Art and was a founding member of the Jazzinitiative Gießen eV in 1977 ( Hessischer Jazzpreis 2006) and later of the Giessen Improvisors Pool . He became a member of various groups around Ekkehard Jost , first Grumpff , then Aman Boutz , finally Chromatic Alarm and Transalpin Express Orchestra , with which he also appeared at international festivals. Between 1996 and 1998 he led the band Joe Bonica T-Bones . He was also active in the North Hessian band Out-Point (CD Acid Country ; 2005), played in the dance piece Macbeth in the Stadttheater Gießen in 2012 and is part of the organist Maggy Scott's New York Groove project .
Discographic notes
- Ekkehard Jost Some Other Tapes (1989-1997)
- Giessen Improvisors Pool: Joe Bonica, Frank Rühl, Martin Speicher, Georg Wolf (1991)
- Ekkehard Jost Weimarer Balladen (with Friederike Nicklaus, Manfred Becker, Dieter Glawischnig , Herbert Hellhund , Wollie Kaiser , Uli Orth, Martin Pfleiderer , Detlef Landeck , Gerd Stein, Dieter Manderscheid , 1991)
- Ekkehard Jost & Chromatic Alarm Wintertango (1998)
- Ekkehard Jost Ensemble Cantos de libertad (with Reiner Winterschladen, Detlef Landeck, Eugenio Colombo , Wollie Kaiser, Gerd Stein, Dieter Glawischnig, Dieter Manderscheid, Marta de la Vega, 2006)
Lexical entries
- Jürgen Wölfer : Jazz in Germany. The encyclopedia. All musicians and record companies from 1920 until today. Hannibal, Höfen 2008, ISBN 978-3-85445-274-4 .
Web links
- Brief portrait (out-point)
- Joe Bonica at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bonica, Joe |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bonica, Joseph (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician and percussionist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Manchester (Connecticut) |