TC pillar
Professor TC pillars , civil Ewald pillars (* 1 January 1958 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian jazz - organist and composer who at the Hammond plays B3.
Life
After completing a commercial training, TC Pfeiler was a member of the Salzburg dance and light music group The Up to Date from 1973 to 1978 . In 1978 he gave up other professional activities in favor of music when the Hammond organ was increasingly being replaced by keyboards and electric pianos .
On April 18, 1978 at the Burghausen International Jazz Week , Pfeiler met the jazz organist Wild Bill Davis , who became the most important teacher at the beginning of his career. After a few months as a soloist, in the summer of 1978, Pfeiler founded his first trio with the traditional line-up of Hammond organ, guitar and drums, occasionally extended by a saxophonist. 1980 followed a European tour with the Lionel Hampton Big Band and Wild Bill Davis for Hammond. Pfeiler played with jazz greats such as Illinois Jacquet , Wallace Davenport , Cat Anderson , Joe Newman , Curtis Fuller and Arnett Cobb . There he received his nickname "TC" based on "The Console" = Hammond console organ.
On November 26, 1987 TC Pfeiler played a live LP together with Wild Bill Davis. Davis and Pfeiler played simultaneously on two Hammond B3s, accompanied by Rudi Renger (guitar) and Michael Honzak (drums). Since then, Pfeiler has appeared in clubs and at festivals across Europe and the USA and has recorded several albums. In sessions he played with stars from the international jazz, funk and blues scene such as Herb Ellis , Red Holloway , Jim Galloway , Spike Robinson, Frank Foster , Bill Elgart , Ken Peplowski , Maceo Parker , Jack McDuff (four hands on a Hammond B3), Peter O'Mara and with European top musicians such as Joe Nay , Carl Drewo , Harry Sokal , Joris Dudli , Mario Gonzi , Michael Honzak, Peter Legat and Louie Austen.
Pfeiler also works as a composer, arranger and producer in the field of film and advertising music as well as high-quality light music, mainly for the North American market. He has also been involved in school concerts in Austria since the 1990s.
On the one hand, Pfeiler attaches great importance to maintaining the tradition of the Hammond organ in jazz, but on the other hand, he is also working intensively on the further development of the current tonal language on this instrument, which despite its rediscovery in the 1990s still plays an exotic outsider role in jazz.
Pfeiler leads blues and mainstream jazz- oriented trio and quartet line - ups, in which internationally known guest soloists take part. There are experimental duos and trios with Hammond organ and percussion or saxophone, the project “Out Of Space”, in which only TC Pfeiler's own compositions are played, as well as the quintet or trio “TC Pfeiler's Jazzid-Funk”. Since 2003 he has performed duo together with his partner and producer Ulrike Muehlbachler on drums with the project "TC Pfeiler's Hammond B3 Lounge". Since February 2008 there has been the project Wohlfühl Klänge together with Ulrike Muehlbachler - drums / percussion / voice.
With the “Carpe Diem Live Tunes” project, a separate roadshow was established between 2006 and 2008.
Prizes and awards
On April 10, 2008, Pfeiler was awarded the title of professor for special services to the Republic of Austria in the field of art and culture (internationally successful work as a jazz organist for 30 years and over 2,000 original compositions).
Discographic notes
- TC pillars - Out Of Space - CD
- Herb Ellis meets TC pillars - CD
- TC pillar - Dynaflow - CD
- Red Holloway / TC Pfeiler - Day Dream - CD
- TC pillars - For HGBS - CD
- TC pillars - live grooves! - CD
- TC Pfeiler Live At Club Art & Music - LP
- Wild Bill Davis / TC Pfeiler 70th / 30th Anniversary Live Concert - LP
literature
- Reinhold Westphal: pillar, TC. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3046-5 .
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pillar, TC |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pillar, professor TC; Pillar, Ewald (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian jazz organist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 1, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Salzburg |