Michael Sagmeister

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Michael Werner Sagmeister (born July 27, 1959 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a jazz and fusion guitarist . He is considered one of the leading contemporary musicians in his field in Europe; he teaches as a professor at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts .

Live and act

Sagmeister, who grew up with his grandparents, is a self-taught guitarist . In 1975 he played with Christoph Oeser and Bernd Kohn in a band that was active in the border area between rock jazz and blues . In 1978 he founded the Michael Sagmeister Trio and had a respectable success with it as a newcomer at the Frankfurt Jazz Festival . In the same year the first album of his trio , produced by Volker Kriegel , was released on Mood Records . Although he initially played rock jazz, his stylistic roots lie in hard bop ; his early role models were Pat Martino and Wes Montgomery . A tour with the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble in the early 1980s as the opening act made Sagmeister known to a wider audience. This was followed by tours through Southeast Asia and North Africa, most recently through West Africa.

The drummer Michael Küttner has been part of his trio for many years ; Thomas Heidepriem currently plays bass in place of his longtime bass guitarist Udo Kistner . He also appears in a quintet with Klaus Göbel , Götz Ommert and Antonella D'Orio. Sagmeister also worked with Pat Martino , Larry Coryell , Billy Cobham , Jack DeJohnette , Dave Samuels , Randy Brecker , Miroslav Vitouš , Albert Mangelsdorff , Wolfgang Dauner , Volker Kriegel, Christoph Spendel , Christof Lauer , Attila Zoller , Emil Mangelsdorff , the hr big band , William Kennedy , Gerry Brown and others together. He can also be heard in solo concerts and in a duo with his wife, the singer Antonella D`Orio. His playing style is based today on neobop and fusion, but also on the blues .

From 1993 to 1997, Sagmeister was a lecturer at Berklee College of Music in Boston . In 1999 he was appointed full professor at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts .

Sagmeister has published over 30 records / CDs and three textbooks so far; the book Michael Sagmeister's Jazzgitarre is considered a standard work. In 2019 he received the Hessian Jazz Prize .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release (HfMDK Frankfurt)
personal data
SURNAME Sagmaster, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sagmeister, Michael Werner (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main