Clare Fischer
Clare Fischer ( born October 22, 1928 in Durand, Michigan, † January 26, 2012 in Burbank, California ) was an American pianist, arranger and composer of pop and jazz, latin and classical music.
Life
Fischer, who was born into a musical family, began with violin and tuba, switched to piano and added to the High School in Grand Rapids yet cello, saxophone and clarinet added. In addition, he studied music theory and composition ( already twelve years old, he arranged for dance bands ), which he in 1947 was continuing at the University of Michigan with the composer H. Owen Reed ( 1910-2014 ) (Bachelor in 1951 and interrupted by a military time at which he for a military band at West Point arranged, Master 1955). After that, he toured from 1956 to five years as pianist and musical director ( arranger), founded in 1953 male vocal group " The Hi- Lo's " Gene Puerling. He arranged for, inter alia, Dizzy Gillespie, " A Portrait of Duke Ellington " in 1960, for Donald Byrd and George Shearing. Then he wrote a lot of music for commercials. In 1983 he composed on behalf of classical clarinetist Richard Stoltzman symphonic work "The Duke, Swee'Pea and Me " on themes by Duke Ellington and his arranger Billy Strayhorn. In the 1970s he began keyboard in the group of Cal Tjader to play and soon had his own Latin American group "Salsa Picante " and a vocal group " 2 2". In 1981, he won a Grammy for " Salsa Picante 2 2" and 1986 for his album "Free Fall ". Since the 1990s, he taught much in the U.S. and Europe (Scandinavia, Netherlands), was incidentally solo concerts and has performed with the Metropole Orkest in the Netherlands and with the WDR Big Band. Since 1961, he has recorded over 40 albums, among others, with Donald Byrd, Gary Foster, Bert van den Brink ( 2001). He worked a lot with Latin American musicians (he was friends with Antonio Carlos Jobim, among others ) since his first recordings in the early 1960s (some with Bud Shank and Joe Pass ) that were part of that bossa nova wave. His composition " Pensativa " has become something of a jazz standard. His piano playing can be Brian Priestley According considered " a considerate and modest continuation " of the achievements of Lennie Tristano and Bill Evans.
Fischer arranged since the 1980s a lot of pop musicians such as Jackson, Paul McCartney, Prince, Celine Dion, Amy Grant, Natalie Cole, Paula Abdul, Michael Jackson, Chaka Khan and Robert Palmer. He financed inter alia, a big band " Clare Fischer's Brazz Corp. ".
Clare Fischer was awarded three times with a Grammy Award, two of them only after his death in 2013 was his last album ¡ Ritmo! Best in category Latin jazz album and 2014 his work Pensamientos for Solo Alto Saxophone and Chamber Orchestra as best instrumental composition a price.
Lexigraphic entries
- Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather, Brian Priestley: Jazz Rough Guide. Metzler, Stuttgart 1999; ISBN 3-476-01584- X