Woody Shabata
Fritz "Woody" Schabata (* 28. August 1955 in Vienna ) is an Austrian jazz - Malletspieler .
Live and act
Schabata studied at the Musikhochschule and the Conservatory of the City of Vienna and for a year at Oberlin College in Oberlin in the United States. In 1977 he was a founding member of the Vienna Art Orchestra (VAO) with Mathias Rüegg and Wolfgang Puschnig , of which he was a member until 1987. During this time he undertook several world tours with the VAO and recorded several albums with the ensemble.
Since 1982 he has been the first percussionist at the Vereinigte Bühnen Wien. He also gave concerts with Joe Zawinul and Dave Brubeck and worked in his own groups and projects with a. a. Roland Batik ( Bridges ), Ernst Jandl , Peter Henisch , Helmut Lohner , the Ensemble Wien and Rudi Josel , Wolfgang Puschnig, Robert Weiß , Hans Zinkl and the Art of Brass Ensemble . He led the group Hot Malletts with Martin Breinschmid and a quintet with Richard Oesterreicher . In 1986 his solo album May-Rimba was released by PolyGram .
Lexical entries
- Jürgen Wölfer : Jazz in Germany. The encyclopedia. All musicians and record companies from 1920 until today. Hannibal, Höfen 2008, ISBN 978-3-85445-274-4 .
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Shabata, Woody |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schabata, Fritz (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 28, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |