Juraj Galan

Juraj Galan

Juraj Galan (* 1952 in Czechoslovakia ) is a modern jazz guitarist and doctor.

Life

Galan played the piano from the age of 7 and switched to the guitar at the age of fifteen. He has lived in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1968, where he first graduated from high school and played in rock groups . During his medical studies he also performed with the flamenco guitarist Manolo Lohnes and with the fusion group “Virgo” around Henryk Darlowski and with jazz musicians such as Wilson de Oliveira , Rachel Gould and Dom Um Romao . From 1980 to 1986 he played in a duo with singer Bill Ramsey . Her album "Live im Unterhaus " was awarded the German Record Critics' Prize. His playing on a seven-string guitar, which he practiced as one of the first in Europe, attracted particular attention. Together with bass player Norbert Dömling he founded a duo (CD "Playing for Love" from the audiophile record company Jeton ), which occasionally expanded and recorded with Billy Cobham and Leszek Zadlo or Tony Lakatos and Kuno Schmid ("Cargo" with Billy Cobham in Austria). In the early 1990s he was on the road with the singer Knut Kiesewetter , but also with the trio "Jazz Meets Tango" with the bandoneon player Juan José Mosalini . He continued to play with Sylvia Anders and on numerous recordings, a. a. by Reinhard Mey .

Galan practices as an internist, family doctor and diabetologist in Mainz . He is the deputy chairman of the professional association of German internists , Rhineland-Palatinate.

Lexigraphic entries

• Martin Kunzler : Jazz Lexicon. Volume 1: A – L (= rororo-Sachbuch. Vol. 16512). 2nd Edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-499-16512-0 .
• Alexander Schmitz, The Guitar Book. Krueger W .; (1983) ISBN 3-81051805-0 ISBN 978-3-81051805-7 .

Web links

• Works by and about Juraj Galan in the catalog of the German National Library
• Jazz meets tango
• Juraj Galan's practice website
• Juraj Beaux at Discogs (English)