Oliver Mewes

Oliver Mewes (* 1967 in Cologne ) is a German jazz musician ( drums ).

Career

Mewes studied drums at the Cologne University of Music and took lessons from John Riley and Victor Lewis . He has played with the Olaf Polziehn Trio, the Echoes of Swing Orchestra , Engelbert Wrobels Swing Society and the International Hot Jazz Quartet and has been a member of the Echoes of Swing since it was founded in 1998 . Mewes also worked with Hazy Osterwald , Dan Barrett , Don Menza , Duke Heitger , Bucky Pizzarelli , Harry Allen , Bob Barnard , Lillian Boutté , Bobby Shew , Leroy Jones and Bill Dobbins ,

stylistics

In terms of style, Oliver Mewes can primarily be classified in the swing of the 1930s and 1940s, influences from early jazz and ragtime drummers can be heard as well as the classic playing style of swing drummers such as Gene Krupa and Jo Jones .

Discographic notes

• Engelbert Wrobels Swing Society & Hazy Osterwald: Delicado (1999)
• Olaf Polziehn Trio: American Songbook (2000)
• Engelbert Wrobel, Chris Hopkins , Dan Barrett: Harlem 2000 (2002)
• Olaf Polziehn Trio feat. Harry Allen: American Songbook Vol. 2 (2003)
• Echoes of Swing Orchestra: The Fusion (2004)
• The Three Tenors of Swing: The Three Tenors of Swing (2006, with Antti Sarpila , Frank Roberscheuten , Engelbert Wrobel, Chris Hopkins, Rolf Marx , Ingmar Heller )
• Engelbert Wrobels Swing Society feat. Dan Barrett: 20 Years (2009)
• Echoes of Swing: Message from Mars (2012, German Record Critics ' Award , Prix ​​de l' Académie du Jazz , with Colin T. Dawson , Chris Hopkins, Bernd Lhotzky )
• Echoes of Swing: BIX - A Tribute to Bix Beiderbecke (2016, with Colin T. Dawson, Chris Hopkins, Bernd Lhotzky and Shannon Barnett , Henning Gailing , Mulo Francel , Pete York )
• Echoes of Swing & Rebecca Kilgore : Winter Days at Schloss Elmau ( Act , 2019, with Colin T. Dawson, Chris Hopkins, Bernd Lhotzky, Henning Gailing and Rolf Marx )

Web links

• Sound carrier by Oliver Mewes in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography at Jazz-Kalender.de
• Echoes of Swing website