Wolfgang Zicke Schneider

Wolfgang "bitch" Schneider (* 1945 in Berlin-Weissensee ) is a German jazz - drummer , who also serves as a studio musician was active.

Life

Wolfgang Schneider studied at the "Hanns Eisler" University of Music in Berlin . In the mid-1960s, he and Hartmut Behrsing , Hans Schätzke and Reinhard Lakomy belonged to the Dixieland All Stars Berlin. In 1967 he was a founding member of Günther Fischer's quintet , with whom he played on international concert stages and recorded key records with Manfred Krug and Uschi Brüning in the 1970s . As a theater musician he worked at the Berlin Metropol-Theater , where he was awarded the title “ Chamber Musician ”. He also belonged to the Klaus Lenz Big Band , with whom he also appeared on the Jazz Jamboree in 1974 .

In the 1980s he founded his own formation and played with Charlie Mariano , Toto Blanke , Trilok Gurtu , Stu Goldberg , Christoph Spendel , Leo Wright , Wolfgang Engstfeld and Manfred Schoof . On their tours through the GDR he also accompanied international singers such as Etta Cameron , Shirley Bassey , Wilma Reading, Joy Fleming and Greetje Kauffeld . As a studio musician, he also worked for Veronika Fischer , Gisela May , Frank Schöbel and Jürgen Hart . Since 1992 he has been part of the Enfant project led by Uschi Brüning.

Discography (selection)

• Manfred Krug / Günther Fischer: That was only a moment ( Amiga 1971)
• Günther Fischer combination (Amiga 1978)
• Uschi Brüning / Eberhard Weise (Amiga 1982)
• Günther Fischer Nightkill (Amiga 1984, with Hans-Joachim Graswurm , Axel Donner , Angelika Weiz )
• Edwin Sadowski Saitentriebe (Amiga 1987)
• Uschi Brüning Enfant (AHO records 1994, with Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky , Detlef Bielke , Günter Bartel)
• Hansgeorg Stengel white mouth frogs, Eulenspiegelverlag 2000

Web links

• Biography (Günther Fischer Band)
• http://www.discogs.com/artist/312065-Wolfgang-Zicke-Schneider Wolfgang Zicke Schneider at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gunnar Leue: “We were rather relaxed” . In: The daily newspaper: taz . October 20, 2018, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 46–47 ( taz.de [accessed October 23, 2018]).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Märkische Allgemeine, Ruppiner Tageblatt, April 11, 2009  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.