Udo Fink (musician)

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Udo Fink (born August 12, 1936 in Karlsruhe ) is a Swiss jazz musician (piano, composition) and secondary school teacher.

From the age of 7, Fink received piano lessons from private teachers. Already in middle school he had jazz lessons with a jazz pianist . At the age of eighteen he founded a jazz group, for which he also composed. He could be heard at jam sessions in the Atlantic Bar in Stuttgart and took piano lessons from Horst Jankowski . In 1956 he worked as a professional musician in Kurt Hohenberger's band in Baselstab, and from 1957 to 1959 in the Hans Zahn Quintet, with whom he toured in American soldiers' clubs and in jazz clubs in the greater Basel-Stuttgart-Heidelberg area. From 1963 to 1968 he studied history and German literatureat the University of Zurich , where he also received his doctorate in 1970. During this time he also played in the Africana . His big band compositions and arrangements were performed at the Zurich Jazz Festival in the 1960s . In 1964 he was a founding member of the Uster jazz club . He then worked as a cantonal school teacher in Zurich, Wetzikon , Winterthur and Pfäffikon SZ . During his time as a middle school teacher, he worked in musicals and cabarets (with Inigo Gallo, among others), but could also be heard as a bar pianist and from 1984 to 1989 a member of the Glarona Big Band. Since then he has led combos, but also a big band under his own name, with which he presented some records. He is currently touring with his own trio, which also gave concerts with the Le Corde Vive orchestra .

Discographic notes

  • Souvenirs IV - Candlelight Dinner (CD Liverpool Records 2003)
  • Souvenirs III (CD Liverpool Records 2002)
  • Souvenirs II (CD Liverpool Records 1999)
  • Souvenirs (CD Liverpool Records 1996, big band)
  • 'Glarona Big Band: it's oh so nice - a tribute to Sammy Nestico (LP Liverpool Records 1986)

Lexigraphic entries

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

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personal data
SURNAME Fink, Udo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss jazz musician and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe