Sigi Busch
Siegfried "Sigi" Busch (born October 29, 1943 in Krefeld-Uerdingen ) is a German jazz musician ( double bass ) and university teacher.
Live and act
Busch received violin lessons and switched to the double bass at the age of 20. After playing with Dixieland and swing bands, he completed a music degree in Bremen. He then played in the band of Ed Kroeger and Joe Viera as well as in the early European rock jazz band Association PC . After completing his postgraduate studies at Berklee College of Music , from 1974 he played with Wolfgang Engstfeld and Uli Beckerhoff in the Jazztrack group . In 1975 his first record was released under his own name ("Age of Miracles" with Charlie Mariano and Wolfgang Dauner ; Bremen Music Prize ). In 1979 he founded the group In 'n' Out with the Dutch drummer Pierre Courbois .
Busch also worked with the Manfred Schoof Big Band , the group Zupfgeigenhansel and briefly in 1989 with the Gil Evans Orchestra . With his group BuschMusic (including Tony Lakatos and Vic Juris ) he released a CD with the music of German composers of the twenties and thirties that was positively received by critics under the title “The Berlin Songbook”. He also performed with many well-known jazz greats (such as Gary Burton , Albert Mangelsdorff , Charlie Mariano , David Liebman , Sonny Stitt , Woody Shaw , Jeremy Steig , Ben Webster or John Zorn )
In 1988 he was appointed professor of double bass, jazz theory and ear training at the Berlin University of the Arts (today's Jazz Institute Berlin ). Busch presented several teaching works: a "double bass school", a three-part "ear training", a "music lesson" with the harmonic basics of jazz and pop (more than 25,000 copies sold) as well as his reflections on "improvisation in jazz - a dynamic system".
Until his retirement, Busch was musically active alongside his educational work with his Sigi Busch Trio (with Jerry Granelli and Peter Less ) and in a duo with guitarist Manfred Dierkes . In 2008 his CD Busch singt Busch was released .
After his retirement he has been living in northern Germany ( Worpswede ) again since June 2012 , where he works with his newly formed band "BuschMusic" and a number of Bremen musicians such as B. Dirk Piezunka, Hille Klein, Ed Kröger, Romy Camerun , Andreas Schanze or Jörg Seidel .
At the beginning of 2013, Busch published the eBook “Harmonischer Rhythmus Jazz & Pop”, which in 2014 was rated by the jury of the German eBook Awards at the Frankfurt Book Fair as one of the five most beautiful eBooks with audio-visual content. In 2016, Schott, Mainz (Advance Music) published a complete revision of his book "HarmonischeBasic" including CD. He also published “Jazz for String Ensemble” with Schott.
His compositional oeuvre now comprises (as of 10/2018) more than 120 compositions for a wide variety of ensembles (bass solo, vocal trio / quartet, jazz ensemble, big band, string orchestra, choir, wind orchestra, etc.).
Web links
- Homepage
- interview
- Sigi Busch at Discogs (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Busch, Sigi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Busch, Siegfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz musician (double bass player) and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 29, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Krefeld |