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Anthony "Tony" Schilder (born November 5, 1937 in Cape Town ; † December 9, 2010 ibid) was a South African jazz pianist , band leader and composer .
Live and act
Schilder grew up in the Cape Flats district of Cape Town and came from a musical family; his mother was a pianist, his father from the Netherlands was a classically trained musician. He learned to play the piano autodidactically at the age of five and performed at parties at the age of six and with dance bands as a teenager. Influenced by the music of Erroll Garner , Charlie Parker and Oscar Peterson , he turned to modern jazz ; in the 1950s and 60s he was part of the Cape Town jazz scene and played with musicians such as Harold Jephta , Maurice Gawronsky , Morris Goldberg , Abdullah Ibrahim , Johnny Gertze , Cups Nkanuka , Chris McGregor and Hugh Masekela , and later with Winston "Mankunku" Ngozi . In the 1970s he dealt with bossa nova . In the 1980s he led the house band at Club Montreal in Cape Town and made three trips to Brazil . It was under this impression that his debut album Introducing the Music of Tony Schilder , produced by Jonathan Butler, was released. In 1982 the live album Jazz in Transit followed . Schilder played as a soloist and with his trio; he also worked with Hilton Schilder, Basil Coetzee , Robbie Jansen and Sathima Bea Benjamin, among others . In 2008 he became seriously ill and has been bedridden ever since; Musicians who were friends raised money for his medical treatment with a benefit concert.
His most famous compositions include "Mitchell's Plain Samba", "Obrigado Brazil" and "Montreal". In 1988 he was awarded a gold medal as the best pianist in the Cape region.
Tony Schilder is the father of fusion musician Hilton Schilder .
Discographic notes
- Made in Manenburg: The Tony Schilder Trio with Leslie Kleinsmith (SABC, 1984)
- Tony Schilder Trio (EVM, 1995 - re-release of the debut album Introducing the Music of Tony Schilder )
- Solo piano (Mountain, 2008)
- Be Positive (New Music, 2005)
literature
- Jürgen Schadeberg , Don Albert: Jazz, Blues & Swing - 6 Decades of Music in South Africa David Philip, 2007, ISBN 978-0-86486-705-6
- Chatradari Devroop & Chris Walton Unsung: South African Jazz Musicians under Apartheid Sun Press 2007, ISBN 978-1020109669
Web links
- Portrait at music.org.za
- Tony Schilder at Allmusic (English)
- Tony Schilder Heritage Project
- obituary
- Obituary by James Edwin Mason
Individual evidence
- ↑ His brothers Chris and Richard Schilder also worked as pianists.
- ↑ In Schilders Trio played bassist Gary Kriel and drummer Monty Weber , who was later followed by Richard Pickett, Cecil Ricca and finally Ivan Bell.
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SURNAME | Signs, Tony |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schilder, Anthony (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South African jazz musician and band leader |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 5, 1937 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Cape Town |
DATE OF DEATH | December 9, 2010 |
Place of death | Cape Town |