Roberto Bossard

Roberto Bossard (born March 11, 1959 in Zug ) is a Swiss jazz guitarist and composer . He works as a professor at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences .

Live and act

Bossard, who comes from a musical family, first learned the classical violin before playing the guitar as an autodidact . A television concert by Joe Pass brought him to modern jazz ; he took private lessons from Christy Doran . Between 1977 and 1981 he studied at the Swiss Jazz School in Bern , then from 1982 onwards at the Musicians Institute in Los Angeles with Pass and Joe Dorio. Back in Switzerland, he worked as a teacher at a youth music school from 1983. He also played in the guitarsummit of Pierre Cavalli (1983-84), which also included Thomas Moeckel and Markus Plattner. He also formed the "Boss Art Band", among others with Andy Scherrer , then with Martien Oster. In 1988 he played in a quartet with Sal Nistico . Then he founded his own hardbop quintet, which included his brother, the trumpeter Corrado Bossard, Daniel Schnyder (later Domenic Landolf ), Erich Peter and Alberto Canonico. He has also performed frequently with Vince Benedetti , Makaya Ntshoko , Sandy Patton , Matthieu Michel and James Zollar . In 1999 he founded his organ trio "Organ-X" with Chris Wiesendanger and Elmar Frey , which was occasionally expanded by the saxophonist Roland von Flüe . Since 2002 he has continued to play regularly with Hämi Hämmerli and Frey in "The Trio". He also played in the swing band Buddha's Gamblers and can be heard on albums by Peggy Chew, Gabriela Krapf , Vocal Contact , Voicetet and the Mellow Brass .

Bossard played at relevant Swiss jazz festivals (including TV recordings from the Jazz Festival Montreux 1987), but also at those in the Netherlands and France. He also toured in Germany, Austria, Italy and Brazil. In 1999 he won the readers poll of the jazz magazine Jazz & Cultur as "best Swiss jazz guitarist 1998".

Discographic notes

• Mark Soskin , Roberto Bossard, Peter Frei , Elmar Frey Atlantic Crossing (Privave Records, 2000)
• Organ-X: A Time To Talk (Privave Records, 2000)
• Lars Lindvall Tentet 1–10 ( Altrisuoni 2002, with Corrado Bossard, Robert Morgenthaler , Daniel Blanc, John Voirol, Otmar Kramis, Christoph Stiefel , Hämi Hämmerli, Fabian Kuratli )
• Monday Nights (Altrisuoni, 2004)

Lexical entry

• Bruno Spoerri (Hrsg.): Biographical Lexicon of Swiss Jazz CD supplement to: Spoerri, Bruno (Hrsg.): Jazz in Switzerland. History and stories . Chronos-Verlag, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0739-6

Web links

• Web presence
• Portrait at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences
• Portrait at JazzIndex