Jojo Mayer

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Jojo Mayer

Sergé "JoJo" Mayer (born January 18, 1963 in Zurich ) is a Swiss drummer living in New York .

Life

The son of bassist Vali Mayer got his first drums at the age of two, and his first public appearance followed a year later in Hong Kong . He acquired his skills largely self-taught . At the age of 18 he was engaged in Monty Alexander's band and toured major European festivals such as the North Sea Jazz Festival , Montreux , Nice and Antibes . As a sideman he played with a variety of well-known musicians from a wide variety of musical genres. In 1995 he was a member of the Screaming Headless Torsos .

Since 1998 he has played in the New York band Nerve , with whom he transfers the improvisational spontaneity of jazz to the drum and bass genre . He is also the initiator and producer of the music party «Prohibited Beatz». Until he left in 2013 he was a member of the Austrian-Swiss jazz trio Depart , in whose founding formation (1985-1994) he was already a substitute for Fredy Studer , and with whom he recorded two new CDs after the comeback in 2006. In honor of Buddy Rich (25 Years Anniversary Buddy Rich) he played concerts with the Latvian Radio Big Band , with the Steinegg Live Big Band and in 2014 with the Zurich Jazz Orchestra .

Works

In 2007 he produced the DVD Secret weapons for the modern drummer , which shows techniques of playing drums, including the “Mayer Stroke” he developed. This was followed by the DVD Secret weapons for the modern drummer - Part 2 , on which he deals with his special foot technique.

Equipment

Jojo Mayer uses a Sonor drum set, Vic Firth sticks , Sabian cymbals and Evans heads. Together with Sonor he developed his own foot machine, which was presented to the public in 2012 .

Filmography

  • 2010: Seven Strangers , music documentary; Director: Robin Fessel
  • 2016: Jojo Mayer: Changing Time , music documentary; Director: Alexis Amitirigala
  • 2017: Lunar Tribute , Soundscape; Directed by Rob Lewis

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Benedikt Lachenmeier: Jojo Mayer: Swiss Precision from New York , Ticketcorner , September 7, 2016
  2. ↑ a b Jojo Mayer , drummerworld.com
  3. ↑ Marcus Demuth: Drum'n'Bass music "Nerve": Prohibited Beatz Interview with JoJo Mayer , Sticks , January 26, 2016
  4. ↑ Alexis Amitirigala: Drummer Jojo Mayer - between man and machine , SRF , August 26, 2015
  5. ↑ Jojo Mayer & Steinegg Live Big Band: Concert Review - Concert on October 24, 2013 in Steinegg (Italy) , szene.it , October 26, 2013
  6. ↑ Alexis Amitirigala: Jojo Mayer plays drums like Buddy Rich: virtuoso and brute , SRF , August 25, 2015
  7. ↑ Interview with Jojo Mayer , jazzdrummerworld.com , November 10, 2009
  8. ↑ Olivier Joliat: Precisely like clockwork: Swiss drummer are export , day week , March 23, 2016
  9. ↑ New DVD by Jojo Mayer - Secret Weapons for the Modern Drummer Part 2 - A Guide to Foot Technique , jazzdrummerworld.com , October 6, 2014
  10. ↑ Jojo Mayer , evansdrumheads.com , 2010
  11. ↑ Manuela Müller: Test: Sonor Perfect Balance by Jojo Mayer: Balanced , musicnstuff.de , October 29, 2013
  12. ↑ Seven Strangers in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  13. ↑ Jojo Mayer: Changing Time in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  14. Jump up ↑ Lunar Tribute - A Rob Lewis Film. Retrieved December 8, 2017 (American English).
  15. ↑ Premiere of the Swiss film "Lunar Tribute" ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Luzerner Zeitung , October 21, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.luzernerzeitung.ch
personal data
SURNAME Mayer, Jojo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mayer, JoJo; Mayer, Sergé (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss jazz drummer
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich