Wolfgang Fiedler (jazz musician)

Wolfgang Fiedler (born April 4, 1953 in Dresden ) is a German jazz musician ( keyboards , piano , bandleader ).

Live and act

Fiedler worked since 1975 as a keyboard player in the Big Band of Klaus Lenz . After Lenz left the GDR, Fiedler continued the band under the new name Fusion . Fusion initially consisted of the core of the Klaus Lenz Band and the vocal soloists Regine Dobberschütz and Hansi Klemm . The sound of the formation was based on big band jazz, which combined free jazz with rock and blues elements , and was thus successful in the GDR and other Eastern European countries. From 1980 he also played in a quintet with his saxophonist Volker Schlott , trumpeter Hans-Joachim Graswurm and the rhythm section of the Günther Fischer quintet , Eddie Greiser (b) and Wolfgang “Zicke” Schneider (dr). He also founded a duo with Charlie Eitner , which expanded into a quartet with Schlott and the percussionist Mario Würzebesser. In 1984 Fusion attracted attention with jazzy arrangements of Beatles tracks and in 1986 went on tour as the Good Vibrations Orchestra (GVO) with the singer Angelika Weiz . A performance at the East Berlin Jazz Stage Festival in 1986 marked the end of the band in GDR times.

Fiedler continued solo and became one of the most active pianists in mainstream jazz . After the fall of the Berlin Wall, he concentrated on the publication of piano pedagogical sheet music from the popular music area and the writing of textbooks ( Das Pianobuch , Songwriters's Guide ) and instructions for electronic music production. In addition, he continues to perform solo, plays in a trio with Eitner and Schlott and works again with Angelika Weiz.

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolfgang Fiedler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website by Wolfgang Fiedler