Thomas Moeckel

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Thomas Moeckel (born February 22, 1950 in Basel ) is a Swiss jazz musician (guitar, trumpet, flugelhorn ).

Live and act

Moeckel comes from a musical family; his parents are the classical singer Ella Moeckel and the composer and orchestra leader Hans Moeckel . Thomas Moeckel performed successfully at the Zurich Jazz Festival between 1969 and 1971 , first with the R&B band “Souldiers”, in 1970 with both “Step Out with Soul Jazz” and with the “Jazz Rock Experience”, and in 1971 with "Caleidoscope" and "Step Out with Soul Jazz". As a professional musician, he then worked with the big band and smaller formations of Swiss Radio DRS , where he also arranged and composed. Later he worked for Harald Banter and the WDR . He played with Dennis Armitage , Tony Scott , Charles Tolliver , Sal Nistico , Eugen Cicero , Hazy Osterwald , Toots Thielemans , Stéphane Grappelli , Oscar Klein , Remo Rau , Riccardo Del Fra , Enrico Rava , Glenn Ferris , Herbie Mann , Kurt Weil , Victor Burghardt and Charly Antolini . He also worked as a sideman for Shirley Bassey , Bill Ramsey , Dany Doriz , Sangoma Everett and Othella Dallas . In 2003 and 2005 he led a successful concert series in San Francisco .

Moeckel also worked as a studio musician and in theater productions such as Kiss Me, Kate or Jesus Christ Superstar , but also in the performance of stage works by Hans Werner Henze and Kurt Weill . As an arranger and composer, Moeckel also worked for theater and film. For a while he was also a teacher at the Swiss Jazz School in Bern.

Prizes and awards

Moeckel won several awards as a soloist and with his groups at the Zurich Jazz Festival in 1969, 1970 and 1971. In 1999 and 2000 he received the Chrysler Jazz Poll .

Discographic notes

  • My Funny Valentine ( Mons , 1994)
  • Seasons (Brambus, 1999)
  • The Nearness Of You (Turicaphon 2007, with Dominik Schürmann and Stephan Felber)

Lexigraphic entries

  • Martin Kunzler : Jazz Lexicon. Volume 2: M – Z (= rororo-Sachbuch. Vol. 16513). 2nd Edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-499-16513-9 .
  • Bruno Spoerri, Biographical Lexicon of Swiss Jazz.

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personal data
SURNAME Moeckel, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel