Marco Käppeli
Marco Käppeli (born March 1, 1951 in Basel ) is a Swiss jazz drummer .
Life
Käppeli studied at the Swiss Jazz School in Bern . Together with John Wolf Brennan and Thomas Dürst he played in the quintet "Impetus", with his own groups in 1985 and 1986 at the Jazz Festival Willisau , the JazzFest Berlin and the Montreux Jazz Festival . With Hans Koch and Martin Schütz he was in the Koch-Schütz-Käppeli group on an Asian tour in 1990 and with Peter Schärli's group in Russia. He works regularly with his own “Marco Käppeli Selection” (CD “Lava-Bowle”), with the group “Interkantonale Blasabfuhr” and other projects by Albin Brun , with Joe Malinga's “Southern African Force” and with the “Alpine Experience” or Omri Brick's “Cheap Farmer”. He was also involved in recordings for the “Alpine Jazz Herd” and “Day & Taxi”.
Käppeli also worked as an actor a. a. at the Theater am Neumarkt , the Theater an der Winkelwiese , at the Theaterhaus Gessnerallee and as a music teacher at the Neue Kantonsschule Aarau . In 2011 he received the Aargau Culture Prize .
literature
- Martin Kunzler : Jazz Lexicon. Volume 1: A – L (= rororo-Sachbuch. Vol. 16512). 2nd Edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-499-16512-0 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Käppeli, Marco |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss jazz drummer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 1, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Basel |