Raffaele Bossard
Raffaele Bossard (* 1982 in Los Angeles ) is a Swiss jazz musician ( double bass ).
Live and act
Bossard, who grew up in Zug , first had piano lessons before switching to the electric bass . From 1999 to 2001 he received double bass lessons from Bobby Burri at the Zug Music School, before completing the preliminary course at the Lucerne Jazz School , where he studied with Heiri Känzig , Patrice Moret and Peter Frei from 2003 to 2008 . He also took lessons with Ron Carter in New York . He leads his own quartet Junction Box , with whom he presented his debut album Adumbration in 2012 .
Bossard has been part of Mats-Up , Matthias Spillmann's band, and Joe Haider's band since 2008 . Since 2011 he has played in Matthias Tschopp's quartet and in the NoReduce collective , and since 2013 he has been part of Christoph Irniger's Pilgrim , with whom he also plays in a trio. He can also be heard on albums by Jochen Baldes , Dominic Egli , Gregor Frei, Matthias Tschopp, the Sonar Ensemble and the Lucerne Jazz Orchestra . He also worked with Feya Faku , Ohad Talmor , Jeff Davis , Joey Baron , Nasheet Waits , Ziv Ravitz , Dave Douglas , Nils Wogram , Nat Su , Andy Scherrer , Glenn Ferris , Bert Joris , Johannes Enders , Sandy Patton , Claus Reichstaller , Roberto Bossard , Christian Münchinger , Chris Wiesendanger , Elmar Frey , Claudio Puntin , Domenic Landolf , Jean-Paul Brodbeck and VEIN .
Prizes and awards
Bossard was the 2013 Moods Blues and Jazz Award winner with Mats-Up; the following year he received the ZKB Jazz Prize with the Matthias Tschopp Quartet . In the same year he won the Transnational Be-Jazz with the band of Florian Egli and Gileno Santana .
Web links
- Web presence with discography
- Raffaele Bossard at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bossard, Raffaele |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss jazz musician (double bass) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1982 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | los Angeles |