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Werner "wege "Wüthrich (born June 30, 1960 in Bern ) is a Swiss jazz musician ( saxophone , clarinet , also piano ) and music teacher .

Live and act

Wüthrich received clarinet lessons at the conservatory in Bern from the age of eight. As a member of the Wüthrich family band , he was involved in several record releases from 1968. In 1973 he founded the pop band Why , which won a scholarship for one semester of lessons at the Swiss Jazz School in the 1975 national jazz & rock competition in Bern . A year later he bought his first saxophone and played for Polo Hofer and in bands like Slapstick. Between 1982 and 1987 he studied at the Swiss Jazz School with Andy Scherrer . He toured Germany with the jazz rock band Kangaroo . He worked with Clark Terry , Kenny Wheeler , Kirk Lightsey , Bänz Oester , Gilbert Paeffgen and Antonello Messina and was involved in productions with the Brazilian musicians Ademir Candido and Raoul de Souza . As a freelancer, he was involved in various musical productions at the Stadttheater Bern . Since 2001 he has played with Franz Biffiger , Michel Poffet and David Elias in the group Friends 4 Friends , which mainly works as a support group for Sandy Patton . He is also active in bands of very different genres from the UpTown Big Band Bern to Willy Schnyder's Jazz Horchester and the Githe Christiensen Band to the Lars Lindvall Tentet and Omri Hasons Modus Quartet , with whom he was on tour in Japan.

Wüthrich teaches specialist didactics at the Bern University of the Arts and is an instrument teacher at two music schools.

Discographic notes

  • Marc Jundts Kalabule Band - Blue Espadrile (LP Zytglogge 1990)
  • Marc Jundts Kalabule Band with Kenny Wheeler (CD Zytglogge 1993)
  • Martin Streule Jazz Orchestra (DRS 2, 1998) /
  • Jazz-Horch-Ester: "Jazz is also composed" (Jazz Elite Special, 1998)
  • François Lindemann : Formats (TCB, 2000)
  • Friends 4 Friends: A Family Affair (Horn Records, 2008)

Lexigraphic references

  • 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 Wüthrich, ways
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wüthrich, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern