Joe Viera
Joe Viera (* 4. September 1932 as Josef Viera in Munich ) is a German jazz saxophonist and -pädagoge.
Live and act
After studying physics at the Technical University of Munich , he works full-time as a musician , arranger, teacher and author. His first instruments were soprano and alto saxophone , later he switched to tenor saxophone .
First he founded Riverboat Seven in the field of traditional jazz . Since 1962 he has also played in a duo with the pianist Erich Ferstl and in a trio with bassist Manfred Eicher . From 1969 he worked in a quartet with Ed Kröger , Sigi Busch and Heinrich Hock and from 1976 in a sextet (with Dieter Ilg , Hannes Clauss and Martin Schrack, among others ). Hans-Jürgen Bock later belonged to his trio.
Since 1960 he has given and organized seminars, workshops and lectures (partly also in other European countries). In 1970 he began to publish the series jazz , an extensive series of jazz instruction books (translations into Polish, Swedish and Greek), for which he consulted excellent instrumentalists.
From 1971 to 1998 Joe Viera taught at Ilse Storb's Jazzlabor at the University of Duisburg (1981 professor) and from 1971 to 1997 at the Hanover University of Music , since then at the University of Munich and at the University of Passau (until 2018). He is a co-founder of the International Jazz Federation and the Union of German Jazz Musicians (first chairman since 1988).
Together with Helmut Viertl, he founded the Burghausen International Jazz Week in 1970 , and has been its artistic director ever since.
In 1993, together with Walter A. Neubeck, the then head of music department at the Academy for Teacher Training and Personnel Management in Dillingen , he founded the Teachers Big Band Bayern (LBB Bayern), whose musical director he was until the end of 2000. He recorded several CDs with this ensemble.
Viera received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon in 1996 .
Discographic notes
- Joe Viera Sextett Kontraste (Calig 1978, with Jochen Rose , Axel Prasuhn , Martin Schrack , Detlev Beier , Hans Clauss, Gerhard Laber)
Individual evidence
- ^ Maximiliansgymnasium Munich (Ed.): Annual report of the Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich for the school year 1951/52.
- ↑ http://www.lbb-bay.de/
Web links
- Literature by and about Joe Viera in the catalog of the German National Library
- biography
- Interview (Bayerischer Rundfunk 2002) (PDF; 53 kB)
- Publications at Universal Edition
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Viera, Joe |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Viera, Josef (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz musician and teacher, university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 4, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |