John Fischer (pianist)

John J. Fischer ( born August 11, 1930 in Antwerp, Belgium ) is an American pianist, composer and painter.

In the 1970s, he was one of the important personalities of the New York loft scene and headed with his wife Frances Fischer Waaskes the Music Gallery Environ. More than a thousand events have taken place there. All that time in the experimental jazz scene of the United States was anybody occurred there - so, for example, Anthony Braxton and the Art Ensemble of Chicago.

Career

Fischer has come only with 15 years in the United States after his parents fleeing Nazi Germany - only in Vichy France found refuge and then two years persevered in Cuba before the United States to New York - Fishing is Jewish origin were allowed to enter. In the 1950s and 1960s, John Fischer worked quite successful as an artist. Especially his bread sculptures and his back- performances in Central Park were well received. He was invited several times in the famous Johnny Carson Show. Through his friendship with Perry Robinson, he found access to the New York improvisation scene and founded the group interface, which was also successful in Germany. ( Moers Festival. Berlin Jazz Days ). Since the early 1980s, he also has a second residence in Geneva. Here he put together the group European interface, the concerted at many festivals in Europe. ( Saalfelden, Leipzig, Bregenz, Amsterdam, etc.). Since the early 1990s, John Fischer concentrated more on painting. Fischer designs using computer digital images. He gives but also concerts with the band interface, which now belong to, inter alia, Perry Robinson and Vincent Chancey.

Since 1995, Fischer is a regular lecturer for free painting and computer art at Marburg Summer Academy.

Discography (selection)

  • Composers Collektive Poum: Perry Robinson, Mark White Cage, Laurence Cook, Mario Pavone (1974 )
  • Interface with Mark White Cage, Perry Robinson, arms Halburian, Rick Kilburn, John Shea, Jay Clayton, Laurence Cook ( 1975)
  • Interface with Marion Brown ( 1979)
  • European Interface The Bregenz session with Theo Jörgensmann, Andrea Centazzo and Melvyn Poore (1983 )
  • Environ Days with Lester Bowie, Perry Robinson, Charles Tyler, Arthur Blythe (1991 )
  • The New Interface Trio, with Mike Richmond, Ben Kilmer (1994 )

Solo exhibitions (selection )

  • Allan Stone Gallery in New York in 1964
  • Allan Stone Gallery in New York in 1970
  • Palais de Nations Geneva 1981
  • Atelier Rolf Meier glass Gelsenkirchen 1985
  • Jazz meets Art Zurich 1985
Digital art Mark Whitecage Charles Tyler (musician) Mike Richmond (musician)
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