Sigi Schwab
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Sigi Schwab live at the Tollwood Festival
Sig(g)i Schwab, real name Siegfried, (* August 5. 1940) in Ludwigshafen, is a German guitar player and teacher, having performed on more than 15,000 recordings for film, television, and as an accompanist to various artists.[1] He plays in a wide variety of styles, including baroque and jazz.[2][3] Schwab played in German groups like Et Cetera (German band), Embryo, and with Ramesh Shotham. In 1980 Schwab played with Chris Hinze at the 5th North Sea Jazz Festival.
Bands[]
- Et Cetera with Wolfgang Dauner (p), Eberhard Weber (b), Fred Braceful, Roland Wittig (dr)
- Embryo with Christian Burchard (dr-perc), Mal Waldron (p), Dave King (b)
- Diabelli Trio with Willy Freivogel (fl), Enrique Santiago (vla)
- Guitarissimo with Peter Horton (g)
- Percussion Academia with Freddie Santiago and Guillermo Marchena (dr-perc)
- Percussion Project with Ramesh Shotham and Andreas Keller (dr-perc)
- Mandala duo with Ramesh Shotham
Discography[]
- Fabulous Guitar (Philips, 1967)
- Remember Django Reinhardt (Metronome, 1968)
- Sound Music Album 8 (Golden Ring, 1975)
- Frei Wie Ein Vogel im Wind (Abakus, 1976)
- Sound Music Album 14 (Golden Ring, 1977)
- Sound Service 1 (Abakus, 1978)
- Guitarissimo with Peter Horton (Nature, 1978)
- Wide and Blue with Chris Hinze (Musicians, 1978)
- Capriccios, Divertimenti, Miniaturen (Melosmusik, 1978)
- Guitar Special 12 Landler (Melosmusik, 1978)
- Meditation (Melosmusik, 1979)
- Siegfried Schwab's Little Flowers (Hor Zu/EMI, 1979)
- Sound Music Album 22 (Golden Ring, 1979)
- Guitarissimo/Confianca with Peter Horton (Nature, 1980)
- It's Ragtime (Jupiter, 1980)
- Plays Paul Simon (Global, 1980)
- Guitaristics (Melosmusik, 1981)
- Hofkonzert (Metronome, 1982)
- Musique de Cour en Allemagne (Ades, 1982)
- Total Musik (Keytone, 1982)
- Solo's, Duo's and Trio's (Keytone, 1982)
- Backstage with Chris Hinze (Keytone, 1983)
- Meditation Vol. 2 (Melosmusik, 1986)
- Anna (Teldec, 1987)
- Sound Music Album 56 Gitarre (Golden Ring, 1988)
- Amazonas (Melosmusik, 1992)
- Clara (EastWest, 1993)
- Guitarissimo XL with Peter Horton (Solo Musica, 2014)
References[]
- ^ "Guitarissimo: Sigi Schwab". Bayerischer Rundfunk. 2005-02-10. Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2007-05-02.
- ^ "Meditative Gitarrenströme: Sigi Schwabs Indian Untermalung of a Hessian reading in Oppenheim". Allgemeine Zeitung. 2004-07-24. Retrieved 2007-05-21.
- ^ "Jazz ist nicht gleich Jazz". Oberberg Aktuell. 2001-05-24. Retrieved 2007-05-21.
Categories:
- German jazz guitarists
- German classical guitarists
- German male guitarists
- Living people
- German male jazz musicians
- German classical musician stubs
- Jazz guitarist stubs
- Classical guitarist stubs
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