Johnny Fischer

This article deals with the Austrian jazz bassist and music producer Johnny Fischer; he is not to be confused with the American jazz pianist John Fischer, who was also born in 1930 .

John "Johnny" Fischer (* 3. May 1930 in Vienna as Johann Ernst Fischer) is an Austrian bassist of the Modern Jazz , singer and music producer.

Live and act

Fischer, who came to Great Britain in 1939 with the last Kindertransport - he is of Jewish origin - grew up in England. He came back to Austria in 1946. Together with Uzzi Förster he learned the harpsichord , studied from 1947 to 1950 at the Vienna Conservatory and from 1951 appeared as a professional musician in American clubs in Austria, from 1952 in Germany and then switched to the double bass . From 1954 to 1955 he played with Helmut Weglinski , from 1954 to 1956 with Hans Koller . In 1956 he worked for Südwestfunk in Baden-Baden and from 1957 to 1961 for Kurt Edelhagen at WDR . He also recorded with Attila Zoller (1956), Heinz Kretschmar, Paul Kuhn , Ulrik Neumann and Jonny Teupen . After 1962 he worked mainly as a studio musician and arranger in Cologne. He wrote a guide to improvisation for bass (Schott, Mainz, 1967). In the late 1960s he was successful as Andy Fisher with his bizarre, German-English songs in the German-speaking world. In the 1970s he was the manager of Konstantin Wecker and also arranged some of his recordings. He also produced albums by Jürgen von der Lippe and Hanns Dieter Hüsch .

Discography (selection)

All publications listed here appeared under the name Andy Fisher .

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		DE	AT
1966	Oh, Oh What A Kiss	DE20 (8 weeks) DE	-
	Mr. Cannibal	DE21 (12 weeks) DE	-
1967	A Man In The Woods	DE25 (14 weeks) DE	AT6 (16 weeks) AT
	The baby fat is gone	DE24 (4 weeks) DE	-

More singles

• 1966: Computer No. 9

literature

• Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler: Reclams Jazzführer (= Reclams Universal Library. No. 10185). 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-15-010185-9 .
• 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

• Johnny Fischer at Discogs (English)

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1. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT